Reuters is reporting that Subaru has set the first half of the 2030s as its target for making the switch to electric vehicles. The announcement is a bold move for the company that prides itself on producing quality, all-wheel-drive vehicles…
Amazon Threatens Employees Speaking Out Against Its Climate Policies
The Washington Post is reporting that Amazon has warned at least two employees for speaking out against its climate policies. In September, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos (who owns the Washington Post) announced The Climate Pledge, the company’s commitment to meet…
Google Launching Green Startup Accelerator
One day after employees signed an open letter revolting over Google’s climate record, the company has announced it is launching an accelerator aimed at helping green startups. Employees wrote an open letter to Alphabet CFO Ruth Porat demanding the company…
Salesforce Launches Sustainability Cloud Ahead of Climate Week 2019
Climate change has been in the news, with people on both sides of the issue debating what should or shouldn’t be done. In the meantime, companies large and small are taking steps to minimize their own carbon footprint, with global sustainable investing (PDF) reaching $30 trillion in 2018, a 34 percent increase over the previous two years.
Google Street View Cars Are Now Tracking Air Pollution
A handful of Google Street View cars are mapping more than roads. Google has teamed up with Aclima, a San Francisco-based company that designs and deploys environmental sensor networks, to equip a small portion of its fleet of Street View…
Global Warming Report Warns the World is “Ill-Prepared”
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) this week issued its Fifth Assessment Report on the impacts of climate change around the world. The new report states that the effects of climate change are already occurring throughout the world. The…
2013 Temperatures Tie For Seventh Warmest
Though much of the U.S. is currently experiencing cold temperatures and snow, it turns out that the previous year has easily made it into the top 10 warmest years since 1880. NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) today released…
More El Niño Heat Waves Expected in the Future
As high temperatures continue to scorch much of Australia this week, researchers are warning that particularly harsh summers could become more normal in the future. A new study published this week in Nature Climate Change predicts that hot El Niño-…
Man Seeks Asylum in New Zealand As a Climate Refugee
A citizen of tiny island nation Kiribati, who is now facing deportation from New Zealand, is seeking asylum as a “climate refugee,” as global warming is severely affecting his native soil. The 37-year-old and his wife emigrated to Middle Earth…
Climate Change Blamed on Humans in New IPCC Report
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a new report on the Earth’s climate today, stating that humanity’s influence on the warming climate “is clear. The panel, an organization set up by world governments to assess the science and risks…
Climate Data Can Predict Crop Failure, Shows Study
Farming can often be a volatile business, but NASA researchers this week published a new study showing that climate data could help predict crop failures months in advance. The study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, linked temperature and…
2012 the Ninth Warmest Year on Record, Says NASA
NASA announced this week that 2012 was the ninth warmest year since 1880, the earliest date to which global temperatures can be tracked. 2005 and 2010 rank as the hottest years on record, while all 10 of the warmest years…
Study Shows Ice Loss at Both Poles Increasing
A new study by NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) is showing that the melting rate for ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica has increased over the past two decades. All together, the ice sheets are losing over three…
NASA ‘Earth Now’ iOS App Shows Earth’s Resplendent Climate Data
Morbidly curious to see a global map of carbon monoxide around the earth? Just in time to satisfy that curiosity, NASA has released a new iOS app, Earth Now, that provides visualizations of such types of global climate data. Essentially,…
World’s Oldest Living Organism Discovered Just In Time For Us To Kill It
What’s green, about 5 feet tall, and wet all over? If you guessed an overgrown leprechaun after losing a water balloon fight, then go to the back of the class. The answer is actually the oldest living organism on Earth,…