Michael Mann. (Getty Images) Michael Mann, a renowned climate scientist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania, has recently been in the news due to a controversial comment he made on social media. In response to President Donald Trump’s refusal to comply with a federal court ruling blocking his attempts to dismantle the Department of…
University of Pennsylvania climate professor Michael Mann and US President Donald Trump. (Getty Images) A University of Pennsylvania climate professor and senior administrator has sparked controversy after suggesting the country is in “second amendment territory” if President Donald Trump does not comply with a federal court ruling blocking his efforts to dismantle the Education Department….
This is an AI-generated image, used for representational purposes only. In an unexpected discovery, scientists have found that penguin droppings or guano may be helping cool Antarctica by triggering cloud formation that reflects sunlight away from Earth. The new study, published in Communications Earth & Environment, shows that ammonia released from penguin colonies significantly boosts…
Most tsunamis are terrifying, but mega tsunamis are on a whole different scale. These colossal waves can reach unimaginable heights, sometimes over 1,000 feet, and race inland with little to no warning. The triggers? Massive geological events like landslides, volcanic collapses, or powerful earthquakes. Now, as climate change accelerates glacial melt and destabilizes landscapes, the…
The Agriculture Department will restore information about climate change that was scrubbed from its website when President Trump took office, according to court documents filed on Monday in a lawsuit over the deletion. The deleted data included pages on federal funding and loans, forest conservation and rural clean energy projects. It also included sections of…
Vermont made history last year when it enacted the country’s first climate superfund law. It’s designed to let the state recover money from fossil fuel companies to help pay the rising costs of climate change. If the law can survive intensifying legal challenges, that is. On Thursday, the Justice Department filed federal lawsuits against Vermont…
The Trump administration last week dismissed the nearly 400 authors of the nation’s flagship climate report, saying in an email that the scope of the report was being reviewed. The move threw the future of the report, known as the National Climate Assessment, into limbo. On Friday, two major U.S. scientific organizations, the American Geophysical…
Few voters have as much power over climate change as an Australian citizen. Among democracies, only the United States and Canada come close to Australia in terms of per capita greenhouse gas emissions. The country is also one of the world’s biggest exporters of planet-warming fossil fuels, selling coal, the most polluting fossil fuel, as…
Few voters have as much power over climate change as an Australian citizen. Among democracies, only the United States and Canada come close to Australia in terms of per capita greenhouse gas emissions. The country is also one of the world’s biggest exporters of planet-warming fossil fuels, selling coal, the most polluting fossil fuel, as…
An English court on Wednesday approved the extradition of an Israeli man charged by New York prosecutors with running a “hacking-for-hire” operation that targeted environmental groups. Prosecutors say that companies run by the man, Amit Forlit, 57, earned at least $16 million by hacking more than 100 victims and stealing confidential information on behalf of…