A new Pew Research Center survey, released as Pope Francis publishes an encyclical on the environment and climate change, finds that 71% of self-identified American Catholics believe the earth is getting warmer, but only 47% attribute the perceived warming to human activity.
A Scottish quango is handing out £2.4 million in subsidies to companies willing to try their hand at cracking the problem of wave power technology. The generous grants, of up to £300,000 per company, represent only the first round of spending
The community of Mountain House, California is set to completely run out of water in just a few days, after the state cut supplies to senior water rights holders last week amid record drought.
From CBS Sacramento: The upscale community of Mountain House, west of Tracy, is days away from having no water. It’s not just about lawns—there may not be a drop for the 15,000 residents to drink. “We’re out there looking for
So the Pope’s long-awaited encyclical on “global warming” has been released to the media four days in advance of its official launch.
Nothing ever happens in a vacuum. Pope Francis’ ongoing concern for environmental issues, which will attain its fullest expression with the release of his encyclical on human ecology Thursday, has deep roots in his own personal experience, especially as archbishop of Buenos Aires, home to one of the most polluted places on the planet.
New polling emphasizes that support for traditional energy concerns has become a partisan issue. Large majorities of Republicans favor key energy issues—but voters of every ideological stripe say energy issues will be an important part of their voting decisions.
“Today we cannot help but recognize that a true ecological approach always becomes a social approach, which must integrate justice in the discussions of the environment, to hear the cry of the earth as much as the cry of the poor.”
A draft of the long-awaited Catholic Encyclical on Climate Change has been leaked four days early by an Italian magazine.
Fire season has arrived early in California, and the crippling drought has helped an unlikely culprit–lawnmowers–start several blazes in Sacramento, which could have rendered one home a complete loss.
The Pope has insisted that the poor are the ones who suffer most from systematically trashing the environment, and there certainly does seem to be a remarkable correlation between poverty and pollution.
Thieves traditionally like to steal valuable items or resources. In the midst of California’s record drought, they’ve turned their attention to the state’s most precious resource of all: water.
From Slate: Polar bears have made dolphins part of their diet. For the first time, scientists have observed polar bears devouring white-beaked dolphins in the Arctic and are crediting global warming for introducing these two species to each other. “This
Climate change ‘activists’ have spent the night at the famous Tate Modern art gallery in London, using their time there to scrawl all over the walls and floors, and to defecate in a “toilet” they brought from home and kept behind
With Tuna Crabs overrunning San Diego beaches in the first signs that an El Niño weather condition is bearing down on the Western United States, the Obama Administration raised this year’s federal emergency drought funding for the seven Western states to $300 million. After limited aid during two years of inaction, the Obama Administration is going all-in for drought relief, just as El Niño’s torrential rains will soon arrive.
On Friday, California’s top water regulators issued new cutbacks on farmers holding senior water rights dating back more than 100 years.
Remembering that the “science is settled,” this is the year that ABC predicted that New York City would be under several feet of water due to rising seas caused by global warming.
By juxtaposing the thoroughly discredited population explosion theories of the 1970s with the (equally panicky) global warming predictions of our day, the article cannot help but make readers wonder whether a certain measure of caution is due before significantly altering human behavior to accommodate these forecasts.
A team of water technology experts from Israel is helping California battle the state’s crippling drought problem by offering ways to implement water conservation. The experts spoke in Sacramento on Thursday to offer their insights, experiences and tips.
LONDON, United Kingdom – The Pope’s forthcoming encyclical on the environment will be ‘overtly political’, a senior member of one of the world’s biggest Catholic charities has said. Graham Gordon, head of public policy at Cafod, told a meeting of
One of the speakers slated for the Vatican rollout of the long-awaited Papal document on climate change once said the earth is overpopulated by at least 6 billion people.
Largely because the migration of bighorn sheep would be affected, the city of Los Angeles has refused to buy electricity from the Soda Mountain Solar Project, a solar plant proposed for the Mojave Desert, even though the plant could help the city reach its goal of obtaining 35% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020.
The office of California Attorney General Kamala Harris wants the California Supreme Court to depublish a ruling by the 4th District Court of Appeal that could be used to challenge tiered water-rate structures used by California cities.
Following Tesla Motors, Inc.’s (TSLA-NASDAQ) big award of California tax credits for promising to add 4500 jobs, the all-electric automaker just signed a lease to occupy the cavernous 500,000 square feet Solyndra plant at 901 Page Ave. in Fremont, California.
Roger Harrabin is the BBC’s in-house green activist-in-chief. He gets very upset when you mention this (journalists at the Beeb being obliged to be strictly impartial) – despite the fact that he has form a mile long – but just
