Support TCN
Your tax-deductible donation to Texas Climate News will be received and transferred to TCN by our official fiscal sponsor, the nonprofit Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources (IJNR).
Thank you for your crucial support.
Menu
An independent magazine about climate & sustainability
Republished from other news outlets
Fracking one barrel of oil in Texas can produce 10 times as much toxic wastewater. The region’s started running low on cheap options for handling it, with one disposal tactic recently linked to a spate of earthquakes.
DeSmog February 2, 2022
Climate experts warn that repurposing oil rigs' waste gas (mainly methane) is not a solution, but more like a Band-Aid on a gaping wound. Some top Republican officials in Texas like the idea, however.
The Guardian January 13, 2022
“Your generation got us in this mess”: For one family, the fossil fuel industry’s role in stoking the climate emergency is more than just a subject for dinner table debate. It’s their legacy.
The Guardian December 23, 2021
The U.N. climate summit led to some incremental progress, but the path forward is still riddled with chasms that need to be bridged. A review of the meeting’s biggest outcomes and the emission-reduction challenges that remain.
Yale Climate Connections November 17, 2021
Aggressive policies, enacted now, can extend the deadline to prevent the worst catastrophes associated with a 1.5 C temperature rise. Nations have roughly till 2032 at current emissions rates before reaching that threshold.
Scientific American November 1, 2021
You may not feel able to fight global warming on your own. But government policy nudges could help wealthy consumers shift to greener lifestyles, says a new report from Germany.
Thomson Reuters Foundation October 15, 2021
Greta Thunberg’s Fridays for Future movement has resumed mass street protests for the first time since the pandemic began.
Thomson Reuters Foundation September 27, 2021
How easy is it for one person to go carbon-neutral in the U.K.? Not all that easy, it seems. Paul Brown, an editor of Climate News Network and former Guardian correspondent, describes his long effort.
Climate News Network September 9, 2021
The enormous volume of plastic waste fouling the world’s beaches and waters – 9 to 23 metric tons per year – could be nearing a tipping point and represent a toxic time bomb in aquatic ecosystems.
Climate News Network August 4, 2021
The next U.N. climate conference, COP26, will be held this fall in Scotland. It aims to spur more ambitious emission-cutting pledges than nations made in the 2015 Paris Agreement to limit warming to 2 degrees C.
Reuters July 22, 2021
Electricity could power the nation’s entire new car and truck fleet by 2035 ... but only with “robust” policies in place.
Yale Climate Connections May 7, 2021
The planet may not catch fire, but climate change really has altered the planet's spin as it rounds the sun. Chinese scientists calculated that ice-cap and glacial melting has shifted the weight of the global water storage system.
Climate News Network May 7, 2021
More than a decade after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, Gulf Coast oil workers are transitioning into offshore wind. Florida, Texas and Louisiana rank second, third and fourth in offshore wind potential.
Drilled News April 22, 2021
With warming environments, landscapes are shifting. But life is still abundant. Building new relationships with the landscapes around us can let humans and other species survive.
Capital & Main April 22, 2021
For the homeless, natural disasters prove torturous for more than the obvious fact that it's worse to be outside than inside during a storm.
NBC News April 22, 2021
The most severe climate impacts will be felt in developing nations, due to factors like high dependence on agriculture and vulnerability to extreme heat, a new survey showed.
Thomson Reuters Foundation April 7, 2021
More than 1,300 cities have set targets or introduced policies to boost renewable energy, while a small but growing number are banning the use of climate-heating fuels.
Thomson Reuters Foundation March 24, 2021
By the century’s end, longer summers could last for almost half the year – probably a bit too long for many of us – if climate-disrupting pollution is not curbed, the researchers concluded.
Climate News Network March 18, 2021
The U.S. electric grid is uniquely susceptible to power outages, a problem expected to get worse with climate change.
Yale Climate Connections February 22, 2021
The elections dimmed prospects for sweeping climate initiatives as Republicans held off Democratic takeovers of statehouses. The best hope for bold moves lies with legislatures already controlled by Democrats.
Stateline November 24, 2020
Your tax-deductible donation to Texas Climate News will be received and transferred to TCN by our official fiscal sponsor, the nonprofit Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources (IJNR).
Thank you for your crucial support.
We’ll send you an email every week or so with links to our recent coverage. We won’t share your address with anyone.