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Ikea is guiding its customers toward sustainable consumption. Here’s how Close to 860 million people visited Ikea stores last year, helping it generate more than $50 billion in sales. The world’s largest furniture retailer is using that expo... (photo: Creative Commons / MB298) GreenBiz Climate change Environment Photos |
The great corporate decarbonization derby is on To tackle big risks requires big imagination and big bucks. And, except for annihilation from global thermonuclear warfare, no set of risks loom larger than the continuin... (photo: European Community / Mauro Bottaro) GreenBiz Climate change Environment Photos Science |
Brazil mounts frantic rescue effort as flooding kills at least 78 Authorities in southern Brazil scrambled Sunday to rescue people from raging floods and mudslides in what has become the region's largest ever climate catastrophe, with a... (photo: AP / Carlos Macedo) Phys Dot Org Brazil Climate change Photos Weather |
Kenya, Tanzania brace for Cyclone Hidaya as flood death toll rises Kenya and Tanzania have been bracing for a cyclone on the heels of torrential rains and floods that have devastated East Africa, killing nearly 400 people and forcing ten... (photo: AP) Al Jazeera Climate Change Cyclone Hidaya Extreme Weather Photos Wikipedia: 202324 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season |
Climate is one culprit in growth and spread of dust in Middle East Climate change is transforming dust storms—a natural phenomenon in the Middle East—into a more frequent and widespread threat to health and economies throughout the r... (photo: GFDL / Nepenthes) Phys Dot Org Climate change Environment Middle East Photos |
Russian oil tanker leaks pose billion-pound threat to English coast A “ghost fleet” of unseaworthy Russian oil tankers travelling through the Strait of Dover risks inflicting billions of pounds of environmental damage on the English c... (photo: AP / Emergency Situations Ministry) The Times/The Sunday Times English coast Photos Russian oil tankers Wikipedia: Oil tanker uk |
Chimps are dying of human sniffles. Is great ape tourism to blame? There was something wrong with the chimpanzees. For weeks, a community of 205 animals in Uganda’s Kibale national park had been coughing, sneezing and looking generally... (photo: Creative Commons / Naveenkumar9494) AOL Environment Photos Uganda Wildlife |
US Republicans vote to remove wolf protections The Republican-majority US House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a bill that would remove endangered species protections for the gray wolf across much of the country... (photo: Creative Commons / Pixabay/Andrea Bohl) Phys Dot Org Endangered Species Environment Photos US States |
Big data reveals true climate impact of worldwide air travel For the first time ever, researchers have harnessed the power of big data to calculate the per-country greenhouse gas emissions from aviation for 197 countries covered by... (photo: AP / Ng Han Guan) Phys Dot Org Climate change Environment Photos Travel |
How the plant world shapes the climate cycle In order to understand the Earth's resilience, researchers at ETH Zurich are modeling climate changes from times long past. And they show that plants are not simply victi... (photo: Creative Commons / Jamain/https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jamain) Phys Dot Org Climate change Environment Photos Science |
Humans Are Changing Earth Deep Below Us As Well As At The Surface The changes that our species is making to the planet are deeper than initially thought. Not only are the impacts of human activity changing the surface and climate of the... (photo: European Community / Lukasz Kobus) IFL Science Climate change Environment Photos Science |
Talks advance on a treaty to end plastic pollution OTTAWA, Ontario — Nations made progress on a treaty to end plastic pollution as their fourth round of talks finished early Tuesday in Canada. | For the first time in th... (photo: Creative Commons) Newsday Climate change Environment Photos Pollution |