British startup Satellite Vu has raised GBP12.7 million ($15.8 million) to develop what it calls "the world's thermometer": a satellite constellation capable of monitoring thermal emissions around the...
[photo1]Adam WelzThis story originally appeared on Yale Environment 360 and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Thanks to years of campaigning by wildlife conservation groups, it's widely known ...
El Nino is on its way, and when the warm weather pattern arrives, it could take a $3 trillion toll on the global economy, according to new research. That estimate is based on damages inflicted by El N...
Water storage in many of the world's biggest lakes has declined sharply in the last 30 years, according to a new study, with a cumulative drop of about 21.5 gigatons per year, an amount equal to the a...
One pretty obvious aspect of the climate emergency which may have flown under your radar is that human-driven global heating is disrupting traditional approaches to risk modelling around natural disas...
Historically, the Black community in the U.S. has been disproportionately affected by the effects of climate change. Relegated for decades to a vulnerable economic and social class, the community is n...
[photo1]Saima May SidikThis story originally appeared on Hakai and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Dead fish were everywhere, speckling the beach near town and extending onto the surrounding...
Casey Handmer is not intimidated by very large quantities. Trillions of acres. Thousands of gigawatts of solar power. A billion metric tons of carbon.His startup, Terraform Industries, aims to operate...
Heating and cooling units increase in efficiency every year, but most of us are living with older units and in leaky, older buildings or in new "open floor plans." At the same time, global warming and...
No doubt that Rick Fox has had plenty of emotional moments in his life. There was the birth of his children, of course, and as a member of the Los Angeles Lakers in the early 2000s, he won three NBA c...
In early 2022, you may remember, we called for experts to submit applications to present breakout sessions and roundtable discussions at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023, taking place on September 19-21 in San...
[photo1]Matt SimonTo call what's happening in the oceans right now an anomaly is a bit of an understatement. Since March, average sea surface temperatures have been climbing to record highs, as shown ...
[photo1]Matt SimonClimate scientists already know that the East Coast of the United States could see around a foot of sea-level rise by 2050, which will be catastrophic on its own. But they are just b...
The Arctic is melting, while hurricanes, blizzards and heat waves leave millions of people and animals in disarray. Lisa Lambert, the head of National Grid's CVC National Grid Partners, told TechCrunc...
Climate tech may have started the year with a down quarter, but don't count it out just yet.Amid a backdrop of depressing figures from much of the venture capital sector, climate tech deals were lower...
[photo1]John WendleThis story originally appeared on Yale Environment 360 and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Enock Bwambale stopped at the lip of the dying glacier, its blunted nose arcing ...
Gregory BarberLast December, researchers at California's National Ignition Facility achieved what many in the fusion industry have called its "Wright brothers" moment. Using a laser, they zapped a gol...
[photo1]Dani AnguianoThis story originally appeared in The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Scientist Melissa Miller was seeing something in California sea otters that she had no...
There's a scramble in the US to build the first generation of technologies to suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. And the first American company with this kind of system, Global Thermostat, jus...