Weekly Climate News

April 8, 2021

• Flooding in Australia has forced over 20,000 people to evacuate and over 150 schools to close down. 

• The journal Geophysical Research Letters published a new study that shows summer in the Northern Hemisphere is lengthening. As a result of climate change, by the end of the century, summer could extend by nearly six months. 

• Pope Francis made an appeal for humanity to face climate change by quoting Shakespeare, writing, “To see or not to see, that is the question.”

• Human activity is currently responsible for degrading two-thirds of Earth’s tropical rain forests. Read more about it here.

• A NASA study has confirmed that human activities are shifting Earth’s energy budget, as more energy from the sun is being trapped than can escape back into space.

• A recent experiment found that coffee pulp, left over from the coffee making process, can aid in the regrowth of forests. 

• The Biden administration announced an expansive offshore wind plan that would install enough wind turbines on the East Coast to power 10 million American homes. 

• How is climate change affecting major league baseball? Read this article to find out.

Weekly Climate News

March 25, 2021 

• Many companies are advocating for the profitability of conservation, sustainable fishing and carbon sequestration. 

• Research has found that farmed fish are consuming more vegetables than wild fish stocks. 

• Flooding in Australia has forced about 20,000 Australians to evacuate and has caused the closure of over 150 schools. 

• Carbon markets haven’t felt the economic impacts of COVID-19.  

• In the face of political turmoil, COVID-19 and economic crisis, Lebanon is becoming more ambitious in its climate policy with the goal of cutting carbon emissions 20 percent by 2030. 

• A new NASA satellite has been designed to track natural disasters, melting ice and other climate change-related effects. 

• A new study in the journal Geophysical Research Letters indicates that summer in the Northern Hemisphere is lengthening. In response to global heating, the end of the century could see the extension of summer by nearly six months. 

• NASA has recently joined the White House National Climate Task Force. 

• Tropical rainforest used to cover 13 percent of Earth’s surface. Today, 34 percent of that area is gone while an additional 30 percent is degrading.

Weekly Climate News

December 3, 2020

• Outdoor heating systems have made an emergence into the outdoor dining scene as a result of the pandemic. Read this article on how they impact the environment. 

• A compromise was reached between European and Saudi Arabian leaders on climate change at the G20 summit.

• Bates Smart, an architecture firm in Melbourne, Australia, made plans to turn 1,200 acres of empty parking garage roofs into rooftop gardens.  

• A joint U.S. and European satellite that will monitor the world’s oceans and the rise of global sea levels launched Nov. 21. 

• Global warming makes Northeastern forests more susceptible to the large-scale wildfires that frequently light up the western United States. 

• Natural disasters are increasing around the world, leaving marginalized and less advantaged communities in extremely dangerous living conditions.   

• The United Nations will make building a global net-zero emissions coalition a priority for 2021. 

• Canada is set to put a goal for net-zero emissions by 2050 into law. 

• New Zealand declared a climate change emergency.