Climate

Why 2023 will probably be one other key yr for the way forward for our local weather. I’m looking onto a glowing white panorama, glittering frosted bushes, a surprising blue winter sky in a uncommon white December right here within the delicate Rhineland of western Germany. A welcome, seasonal freeze-up after a summer season that […] More

Tromso resides as much as its picture as Norway’s Arctic capital, as I step off the airplane right into a flurry of snowflakes and a panorama of white. I first got here up right here to to the Arctic Frontiers gathering in 2007 to analysis and make contacts for a sequence of documentaries to mark […] More

It’s now one 12 months since Russia invaded Ukraine. There’s no signal of any finish to the battle. And we’re not taking a look at a regional dispute. This struggle has grow to be a serious conflict between techniques, with repercussions for the entire planet. Putin’s invasion has plunged us right into a time of […] More

(Title Photo: Ted Scambos, University of Colorado, Boulder, NSDIC: Camp on Thwaites Glacier) “If the ice caps soften, you gained’t have something to put in writing about any extra“. I used to be flabbergasted to listen to that final week from somebody I met regionally, a self-declared surroundings activist. Phew. If the “ice caps soften”, […] More

The thermometer on the UNFCCC constructing right here in Bonn is exhibiting excessive summer season temperatures early within the season, because the delegates line up for the local weather talks from June 5th to fifteenth. Bonn is the headquarters of the United Nations local weather change physique. This 10-day assembly is getting ready the way […] More

It’s been a giant week for local weather, with a whole lot of hundreds of protesters taking to the streets across the globe as UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres hosted a Climate Ambition Summit on 20 September in the course of Climate Week NYC and the annual assembly of the UN General Assembly (UNGA). Just […] More

“It’s too late to cease Antarctic ice soften.” But “the Greenland ice sheet is likely to be extra proof against warming than we thought”, based on numerous latest research. So ought to we cease worrying? Or quit on local weather motion? As we pace in the direction of this yr’s UN Climate Conference COP28, to […] More

There has by no means been a extra urgent want for the world to unite and take pressing, radical motion to halt emissions, to keep away from additional adjustments to the frozen elements of the Earth with catastrophic penalties for individuals all around the globe. Your Iceblogger is heading for Dubai and COP28 and making […] More

I went to Dubai for the UN Climate Conference COP28 with combined emotions. On the one hand, the controversy over the situation and the President, head of a large fossil gasoline concern, made me considerably sceptical. On the opposite, I used to be pushed by the attention that this was a sort of final probability, […] More

After the disappointing final result of COP28 in Dubai, with February threatening to be the most popular in recorded historical past – the tenth record-hot month in a row –  I’ve been pushing aside this ice weblog submit, looking for the optimistic, looking for indicators that issues would possibly change for the higher in 2024. […] More

The change is pushed partially by a surge in gross sales for hybrid autos with a gas-powered engine and an onboard battery however no plug, which along with plug-in hybrids made up practically 10 % of recent automotive gross sales final 12 months, in line with the U.S. Energy Information Administration. But though hybrids burn much less […] More