Every month, climate scientists make new discoveries that advance our understanding of climate change’s causes and impacts. The research gives a clearer picture of the threats we already face and explores what’s to come if we don’t reduce emissions at a quicker pace
Around the world, climate change is driven by fossil fuels. But where one place sees heavy flooding, another may see widespread drought. One area may see devastating wildfires and another may see intense rain.
Less than a week ago, Naohiro Masuda, the Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Chief Decommissioning Officer, spoke about development of the “ice wall” around the four ruined reactor units at the Fukushima I power station. In the company’s regular “prompt report,” the decommission head said that along with other measures, the $0.3 … [continued]
(Reactor unit locations highlighted on TEPCO’s website map.) The Tokyo Electric Power Company nuclear power complex at Fukushima 1 has suffered a new and dangerous leak. The flaw is in the fifth reactor unit, not in one of the four originally wrecked in March 2011 in what might still become the … [continued]
Climate advocacy group 350.org is planning nearly 1,000 events in over 100 countries on May 5th to help people “connect the dots” between extreme weather and climate change on the first ever Climate Impacts Day.
