12 books to commemorate the diverse legacy of Earth Month » Yale Climate Connections
From the seeds planted by the first Earth Day celebrated over 50 years ago, an astonishing variety of environmental shoots have sprouted and spread. As a result, an eclectic mix of titles is required to celebrate Earth Month in 2025. This month’s bookshelf offers four different but related takes on the environmental holiday. The first […]
As wildfires intensify, residents of fire country must act fast » Yale Climate Connections
Transcript: Last July, when a wildfire was reported near Lyons, Colorado, fire chief Rob Stumpf and his crew rushed to the scene. They could see the fire was growing fast and heading toward town. Stumpf: “Inside of probably 90 seconds of having been on scene, we issued orders for evacuation.” Those orders helped protect people […]
Inside my quest for a climate-friendly bank
Igrew up knowing that when you had extra money, you put it under a bed, stashed it in a book or a clock, or, if there was enough of it, it went into a savings account at a bank. It hadn’t occurred to me that my bank account could be contributing to the climate crisis […]
Skeptical Science New Research for Week #17 2025
Skeptical Science New Research for Week #17 2025 Posted on 24 April 2025 by Doug Bostrom, Marc Kodack Open access notables Internal variability effect doped by climate change drove the 2023 marine heat extreme in the North Atlantic, Guinaldo et al., Communications Earth & Environment The year 2023 shattered numerous heat records both globally and regionally. We here focus on the […]
Coalition’s rubbery gas numbers can’t conceal disastrous energy plan
SYDNEY, Wednesday 9 April 2025 – In response to the Coalition’s newly released gas policy modelling, Joe Rafalowicz, Head of Climate and Energy at Greenpeace Australia Pacific, said: “Peter Dutton’s policy to supposedly achieve meagre changes to gas prices is a distraction from the fact that we don’t need gas and the seismic blasting, methane […]
Skeptical Science New Research for Week #14 2025
Skeptical Science New Research for Week #14 2025 Posted on 3 April 2025 by Doug Bostrom, Marc Kodack Open access notables A pronounced decline in northern vegetation resistance to flash droughts from 2001 to 2022, Zhang et al., Nature Communications: Here we show that vegetation resistance to flash droughts declines by up to 27% (±5%) […]
Toxic threat: New Greenpeace report outlines unacceptable risk of nuclear waste in Australia
SYDNEY, Thursday 24 April 2025 — A new report from Greenpeace Australia Pacific has shown the Coalition’s nuclear plan could produce 14 billion Coke cans’ worth of radioactive waste a year, warning it is a matter of when, not if, a nuclear waste accident could occur in Australia. Released in the lead-up to the 39th […]
Fact brief – Is Mars warming?
Fact brief – Is Mars warming? Posted on 5 April 2025 by Sue Bin Park Skeptical Science is partnering with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. You can submit claims you think need checking via the tipline. Is Mars warming? Mars’ climate varies due to completely different reasons from Earth’s, […]
‘Ambitious but sensible’: Greenpeace welcomes Greens’ plan for clean jobs and climate solutions
SYDNEY, Thursday 10 April 2025 — In response to the release of The Greens’ Powering Past Coal and Gas energy plan released today, Joe Rafalowicz, Head of Climate and Energy at Greenpeace Australia Pacific, said: “Greenpeace welcomes The Greens’ Powering Past Coal and Gas plan released today. Not only does the plan respond to the […]
2025 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #14
Latest Posts Archives 2025 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #14 Posted on 6 April 2025 by BaerbelW, Doug Bostrom, John Hartz A listing of 36 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, March 30, 2025 thru Sat, April 5, 2025. This […]