How Shell greenwashed gas with sham Chinese carbon credits
Since 2022, Shell has sold more than 20 cargoes of liquefied natural gas (LNG) as…
President Biden sets US emissions goal for 2035 in the shadow of Trump
President Joe Biden has announced a US target to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 61-66%…
After Baku setback, activists call for ‘just transition’ to be front and centre at COP30
Trade unionists and campaigners seeking a fair deal for workers whose jobs will be affected…
Here’s how we take back control of COP from the world’s biggest polluters
Brice Böhmer is climate and environment lead at Transparency International. As the dust settles after…
As Earth dries out, countries fail to reach drought agreement
Governments have failed to agree on a global mechanism for tackling drought at a United…
New loss and damage fund boss urged to keep costs down
With just $69 million in the bank account of the fledgling loss and damage fund…
Nickel mining for electric vehicles is destroying lives in Indonesia
Perrine Fournier is a trade and forests campaigner at the forests and rights NGO Fern…
Biden uses only Africa visit to promote “game changer” railway for copper and cobalt
In his first – and most likely last – visit to sub-Saharan Africa as US…
Global North countries must step up on protecting their own forests
Sikeade Egbuwalo is the biodiversity lead at Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Environment. Here in Nigeria,…
Nature 2023: Part II
This is a follow-on post to the previous summary of interesting work related to the…
Twenty years of blogging in hindsight
It’s 20 years since we started blogging on climate here on RealClimate (December 10, 2004)….
Operationalizing Climate Science
There is a need to make climate science more agile and more responsive, and that…
Science is not value free
An interesting commentary addressing a rather odd prior commentary makes some very correct points. Back…
Cold extremes do in fact decrease under global warming
The title of this post might seem like a truism, but for about a decade…
Phantastic Job!
A truly impressive paper was published this week with a new reconstruction of global temperatures…
Breaking: Shell backs down in its lawsuit against Greenpeace
Just over a year ago, Shell sued Greenpeace UK, Greenpeace International and nine individuals for millions over…
The cost of convenience: Why ditching plastic is a justice issue
Plastic products have been marketed to us as innocuous items of convenience. Plastic bags, food…
Spotlight on nature protection at COP 29
Preserved Forest Area in the Realidade District, Humaitá, Amazonas © Greenpeace Brasil Just ten days…
Setting the scale: the life and work of Anders Celsius
On Christmas Day in 1741, when Swedish scientist Anders Celsius first noted down the temperature…
Cloudy with a chance of warming: how physicists are studying the dynamical impact of clouds on climate change
For all of us concerned about climate change, 2023 was a grim year. According to…
Venkat Srinivasan: ‘Batteries are largely bipartisan’
Which battery technologies are you focusing on at Argonne? We work on everything. We work…
Physics-based model helps pedestrians and cyclists avoid city pollution
Follow the particulates: Snapshot of airborne pollution produced when a car brakes. (Courtesy: Adapted from…
Operando NMR methods for redox flow batteries and ammonia synthesis
Magnetic resonance methods, including nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR), are non-invasive,…
Pele’s hair-raising physics: glassy gifts from a volcano goddess
A sensible crew cut, a chic bob, an outrageous mullet. You can infer a lot…
Rheo-electric measurements to predict battery performance from slurry processing
The market for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) is expected to grow ~30x to almost 9 TWh…
A comprehensive method for assembly and design optimization of single-layer pouch cells
For academic researchers, the cell format for testing lithium-ion batteries is often overlooked. However, choices…
Environmental Intelligence: How AI Helps Businesses Save Money and Save the Planet
Around the world, sustainability has made its way to the forefront of everyone’s mind, including…
Can Carbon Offsets Save Us? Fighting Climate Change with Carbon Offsets
In the past few years, the topic of climate change has worked its way into…
Boxing Out the Competition: How Green Packaging Helps Businesses
As more and more consumers are pushing businesses to become environmentally sustainable, many are looking…
How Companies Can Plan to Mitigate Climate Risk
Climate change is considered the greatest single threat to humankind, and while individuals are working…
Are Global Supply Chains A Thing of the Past?
How Climate Change Will Impact Global Supply Chains Global supply chain issues have hit the…
Wakuna’s PIECE: The Future Has Never Seemed So Gooey
Algae!!!…Green, gooey, slimy, messy, smelly, unpleasant…All these words come to mind when I hear the…
Utilities One — Doing Great Things with Great Dedication
Many talented people are forced to leave their native countries in search of a better…
Wakuna’s PIECE: Upcoming Series Announcement
In this series, I will spotlight some of the coolest, innovative and out-of-the box solutions…
Circular Economy: The Best Business Model
In my 20 years of work experience, I have never felt so passionate and committed…
Colombian Chocolate Saves Trees
Home to huge expanses of biodiverse forest and endemic species, Colombia’s battle against deforestation is…
Delaware’s Tidal Wetlands
Water inundates the marshes along Delaware Bay, which provide protection against flooding and erosion, as…
Santiago at Night
Lights in Chile’s central city display an array of colors and densities, reflecting various land…
Mount Taranaki’s Ring of Forest
The precise geometry of the protected area encompassing an iconic New Zealand volcano is unmistakable…
Shrimp Farms of the Guayas Estuary
Large numbers of rectangular holding ponds lie amid mangrove forests in southern Ecuador. Read More…
Keeping Tabs on North Cascades Glaciers
Scientists use satellites in orbit and boots on the ice to monitor glacial changes on…
Tracking Elephants Across Namibia
Satellite imagery and local data helped researchers assess how landscape features, such as watering holes…
Confronting Florida’s Coral Collapse
After a brutally hot summer in 2023 that caused widespread bleaching and coral death, summer…
A Winter Wanderer in the Weddell Sea
Under the cloak of darkness, Iceberg A-83 wiggled away from glue-like sea ice and drifted…
The Korean Peninsula at Night
Images of nighttime lights reveal patterns in population and urban development. Read More…
A Deluge for the Sahara
An extratropical storm system dropped torrential rains on parts of Morocco and Algeria. Read More…
September Puzzler
Every month on Earth Matters, we offer a puzzling satellite image. The September 2024 puzzler…
August Puzzler
Update on August 23, 2024: This Landsat 8 image shows several golf courses north of…
July Puzzler
Update: This Landsat 8 image shows ship wakes and wind turbines in the Atlantic Ocean…
June Puzzler
Update on July 23, 2024: This false-color image shows a plume—likely an orographic cloud—streaming from…
May Puzzler
Update on June 4, 2024: This image shows greenhouses in eastern China. Congratulations to James…
Citizen Scientists Capture Brilliant Photos of the Aurora
On May 11, 2024, the day-night band of VIIRS (Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite) on the Suomi…
April Puzzler
Update on May 21, 2024: This image shows a phytoplankton bloom in the Gulf of…
March Puzzler
Update on April 23, 2024: This image shows Sortebræ, a large surge-type glacier in eastern…
Eclipse Challenge: Clouds and Our Solar-Powered Earth
Energy from the Sun warms our planet, and changes in sunlight can also cause changes…
February Puzzler
Update on March 11, 2024: This image shows Spirit Lake, located in south-central Washington, on…
Create ‘positive tipping points’ with climate mandates, governments urged
Requiring key sectors to switch to clean energy by specific times could trigger benevolent cascades,…
‘A break from the heat’: Americans most affected by climate crisis head midwest
Unbearable heat and worsening storms prompt residents of states such as Florida to move elsewhereAs…
Jane Fonda rallies disaffected young US voters: ‘Do not sit this election out’
The Hollywood actor and activist backs Harris for president as she warns of climate emergency…
Retired priest speaks of ‘painful’ treatment by church over her climate protests
The Rev Sue Parfitt has lost right to conduct religious ceremonies after her arrest at…
California fire agency engineer arrested on suspicion of starting five wildfires
Cal Fire says Robert Hernandez ignited blazes while off duty in forest land in north…
The week around the world in 20 pictures
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People rescued from rooftops as flooding hits northern Italy – video
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‘It’s guerrilla warfare’: Brazil fire teams fight Amazon blazes – and the arsonists who start them
Firefighters and police in Rondônia battle fires intensified by both the climate crisis and a…
Wildfires ravaging northern Portugal – in pictures
Since last week, wildfires have been raging in central and northern Portugal. At least seven…
Coalition’s nuclear plan will lead to ‘massive’ electricity shortages and risk blackouts, new analysis warns
Energy minister Chris Bowen says Peter Dutton must explain what happens to national grid over…
People must understand: we in Malawi are paying for the climate crisis with our lives | Khumbize Kandodo Chiponda
From flooding to drought, extreme weather is devastating our communities. It is time for the…
I’ve studied geopolitics all my life: climate breakdown is a bigger threat than China and Russia | Anatol Lieven
‘Risk’ analyses largely ignore the dangers of the climate crisis. Unless we wake up to…
No more sticking-plaster solutions: Britain’s green agenda is on solid ground | Joss Garman
Showing climate delivery can be done effectively and fairly would be an extraordinary climate legacy…
Australia is a mess. Cop31 is a chance to redefine ourselves from climate laggard to global leader | Anna Cerneaz
Hosting the conference would help us overcome our colonial mentality and the fossil fuel lobby,…
‘Even the breeze was hot’: how incarcerated people survive extreme heat in prison
The Marshall Project and the Prison Journalism Project asked incarcerated reporters to document the impact…
More floods are coming to Britain, but you ought to know this: the system that should protect us is a scandal | George Monbiot
A network of public bodies are supposed to safeguard us from flooding. But, like old…
‘We empower ourselves’: the women cleaning up Bolivia’s Lake Uru Uru
Once clean enough to drink, the Andean lake was poisoned by mining pollution and urban…
Race is on to produce a super-coral to survive world’s warming seas
Widespread bleaching of reefs is devastating delicate ecosystemsIt is one of the least understood processes…
The Stakes: how JD Vance’s home town has won millions in climate investment that he calls a ‘green scam’
Locals called it a ‘miracle’ when the steel plant in JD Vance’s home town got…
Technology helping solar farms counter growing hailstone threat
With storms becoming more frequent due to the climate crisis, insurers are forcing operators to…
NASA Analysis Finds Strong El Niño Could Bring Extra Floods This Winter
In Brief: Such high-tide flooding that inundates roads and buildings along the west coast of…
NASA Flights Link Methane Plumes to Tundra Fires in Western Alaska
In Brief: Methane ‘hot spots’ in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta are more likely to be found…
NASA-ISRO Radar Mission to Provide Dynamic View of Forests, Wetlands
In Brief: NISAR will help researchers explore how changes in Earth’s forest and wetland ecosystems…
NASA-Led Study Pinpoints Areas of New York City Sinking, Rising
In Brief: Scientists using space-based radar found that land in New York City is sinking…
How hot will it get?
Currently, the temperature in the Northern Hemisphere is higher than it was last year at…
Arctic Sea Ice Alert
[ click on images to enlarge ]Temperatures remain high, as illustrated by the above image,…
Have feedbacks taken over?
For about one year now, global temperature anomalies have been extremely high, as illustrated by…
Very high temperatures in Tropics
Temperatures in the Tropics (23.5°S-23.5°N, 0-360°E) have been very high in 2024 (see black line,…
Temperatures in the Tropics
The image below shows that temperatures in the Tropics (23.5°S-23.5°N, 0-360°E) were very high during the…
Temperature rise may soon accelerate even more
The April 2024 temperature was 1.32°C higher than 1951-1980, as illustrated by the above image,…
Tracking toward mass extinction
by Andrew GliksonWhere “Two plus two equals five if the party says so” (George Orwell)and…
Is CMIP6 SSP585 the worst-case scenario?
The image below, adapted from Climate Reanalyzer, shows the temperature in the year 2100, in…
Temperature rise in the Tropics (update 5)
The temperature in the Tropics (23.5°S-23.5°N, 0-360°E) reached a new record high on April 24,…
Arctic sea ice under threat
The image below indicates that Arctic sea ice volume has meanwhile passed its annual maximum….
Temperature rise in the Tropics (update 4)
The temperature in the Tropics (23.5°S-23.5°N, 0-360°E) reached a new record high on April 23,…
The Orwellian rules-based Climate
By Andrew Glikson “History is a nightmare from which I am trying to wake” (James…
CO2 keeps accelerating
The Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, reported a daily average carbon dioxide (CO₂)…
Temperature rise in the Tropics (update 3)
The temperature in the Tropics (23.5°S-23.5°N, 0-360°E) reached a new record high on April 20,…
North Atlantic heating up
Sea surface temperature at record high The image below, created with Climate Reanalyzer screenshots, shows…
Did the climate experience a Regime Change in 2023?
The astonishing recent rise in temperatures makes one wonder whether a Regime Change did take…
Oppenheimer’s legacy – Portents of a nuclear war on a burning planet
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Atlantic ocean heat threatens to unleash methane eruptions
The image below shows that the monthly Atlantic surface temperature anomaly in February 2024 was…
Tragedy set to unfold in Tropics (update)
The temperature in the Tropics (23.5°S-23.5°N, 0-360°E) reached a new record high on March 13,…
CO2 rise is accelerating
On March 15, 2024, the daily average carbon dioxide (CO₂) at Mauna Loa, Hawaii, was…
Is This the Only Way to Curb Global Warming?
A new report from the United Nations environment program (Unep) finds that on current pledges,…
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Climate Tipping Points Are Closer Than We Think, Scientists Warn
From melting ice caps to dying forests and thawing permafrost, the risk of ‘abrupt and…
In Rural and Urban Communities Alike, Energy Costs Burden Low-Income Families
Weatherization programs can help. As the leaves turn and the temperature drops, many people worry…
UN report: Pollution From Planned Fossil Fuel Production Would Overshoot Paris Climate Goals
To protect the climate, most coal, oil, and natural gas must be left in the…
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New Report Finds Costs of Climate Change Impacts Often Underestimated
Climate economics researchers have often underestimated – sometimes badly underestimated – the costs of damages…
Bloomberg Is a Climate Leader. So Why Aren’t Activists Excited About a Run for President?
Michael Bloomberg has poured his time and hundreds of millions of dollars into projects aimed…
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Untold Suffering Lies Ahead in Hotter World
Global heating could bring “untold suffering” for humans. It could also mean less fresh water…
IEA calls for next national climate plans to target coal phase-down
Governments should promise in their next round of climate plans, due by early next year,…
Despite dilution, officials say new nature law can restore EU carbon sinks
A razor-thin vote in favour of the EU’s nature restoration law on Monday has salvaged…
UN climate chief warns of “steep mountain to climb” for COP29 after Bonn blame-game
UN climate talks in Bonn ended in finger-pointing over their failure to move forward on…
Flood in Oman due to severe rains. Flooding in Arabian Peninsula …
YouTube”Both Oman and the UAE, which hosted last year’s COP28 UN climate talks, have previously…
Wood Pellet Giant Drax Targets California Forests: Excerpt
“Plans for two industrial pellet plants would increase carbon emissions and hurt the health of…
Michael Mann Wins $1 Million Verdict In Defamation Trial
“Michael Mann Wins $1 Million Verdict In Defamation Trial Victory over climate deniers sends a…
Climate Choir Melbourne supporting Extinction Rebellion
Climate Choir Melbourne supporting Extinction Rebellion protestors at their sit down on the busiest intersection…
Well done humans!!!!
Congratulations humanity! For the first time in recorded history we have breached 2C above preindustrial…
Video: Our Local AFL footballers push for climate action.
Aug 18, 2022 OUR LOCAL presented by AFL Players For Climate Action, reconnects past &…