(EnviroNews World News) — About 15 percent of Antarctica’s surface melted on Christmas Eve 2019, breaking previous records for ice-melt, according to the Global Forecast System (GFS) by the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) and the data from the Modèle Atmosphérique Régional (MAR), a model used for meteorological…
(EnviroNews World News) — India, a target of President Donald Trump’s wrath when he announced he was withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement (Paris Accord), is moving away from coal. That was evident on June 10, 2017, when the country’s government-owned Coal India Limited announced it…
(EnviroNews World News) — North Rhein Westphalia, Germany — The Prosper-Haniel hard coal mine, slated to be shut down in 2018 when government subsidies run out, is being repurposed to become a giant battery for excess power created by renewable energy sources. Located in North Rhein Westphalia, the…
(EnviroNews Polls) — In a stunning turn of events, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said last friday night, that she wants to put a halt to fossil fuel extraction on federal lands. Clinton made the announcement at a campaign event when pressed by an activist/citizen-journalist concerned with climate…
(EnviroNews World News) — Moo or False? Cows are a bigger contributor to climate change than cars? That would be moo. It was questions similar to this one (composed by EnviroNews) that were asked respectfully by The Guardian reporter Travis Irvine to a bunch of very sexy looking…
(EnviroNews World News) — Following an intense occupation of a university management building that lasted nearly two weeks, Eidinburgh University finally relented under the pressure and announced on May 26, 2015 it would be pulling its money out of the dirtiest of dirty fossil fuels. The announcement was…