September 9, 2020 Climate change Fires in Russian Arctic release record quantities of carbon dioxide, studies say Unprecedented fires battering the Arctic have released more carbon dioxide this year than forest blazes over the entirety of 2019, new […]
September 4, 2020 Air Pollution, Climate change Will it be hard or easy to reverse Trump’s anti-environmental legacy if he loses in November? Both Donald Trump’s administration has undertaken a series of aggressive rollbacks to US environmental protection policy that has broad […]
August 31, 2020 Climate change Climate change made Hurricane Laura intensify quickly, studies say As experts from the National Hurricane Center surveyed the Gulf of Mexico early last week, they saw in Laura the makings of a Category 1 […]
June 23, 2020 Arctic, Climate change Siberian village records Arctic’s hottest temperature ever One of the coldest places on earth last weekend became one of the hottest when a small town in northern Siberia registered a temperature of […]
June 8, 2020 Arctic, Climate change, Fossil fuels Russian prosecutor orders checks on permafrost-bound industry in wake of Arctic oil spill Russian prosecutors have ordered checks on infrastructure built on permafrost after a fuel tank collapsed in the Arctic, leading to a […]