Source: Tyndall Centre UN report sets out path to return below 1.5°C The world is set to cross 1.5°C global warming, but can still limit, adapt to and return from higher temperatures with rapid, collective and global climate action. Global temperature rise is set to cross 1.5°C, likely within the next few years, pushing climate risks and impacts to increasingly dangerous heights – but it is still possible to bring temperatures down and achieve global goals in the Paris Agreem

Source: Union of Concerned Scientists While most of us were prepping for the holiday season by baking cookies or readying ourselves for time with family, President Trump had different plans: just days before the end of the year, he issued a broad work-stoppage order against every major offshore wind project under construction. The cost of his latest attack on the industry, especially at the onset of a particularly cold winter? Less reliable power and higher prices for famili

Source: Union of Concerned Scientists Our Energy Sources Should Evolve Too Data centers for AI are driving huge increases in electrical load, and there’s currently not enough power on the grid to match the projected growth. The Trump administration, having hamstrung solar and wind , is now trying to promote new fossil gas generation as the solution. There is no shortage of reasons to be concerned about this pro-fossil preference—the toxic pollution , the costs of unreliab

Universities Launch AIUNCA: A Ground-breaking Environmental News Agency May 15 – The media networks of universities from Latin America and the Caribbean, Italy, Portugal and Spain have come together to establish AIUNCA, a news and communications agency focusing climate change, biodiversity, new models for sustainable development, and countering disinformation. AIUNCA –Spanish acronym for Agencia Internacional Universitaria de Noticias y Comunicación Ambiental- is founded on t

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