Industrial emissions of carbon dioxide are projected to rise to record highs in 2017 after a three-year plateau, scientists said Monday. It’s a sign that the world is still far from achieving its goals to limit global warming.
The 12-cent gas tax intended for repairing and maintaining California’s worst-in-the-nation roads kicked in on Wednesday.
Levels of airborne pollutants are off the scale in parts of India’s capital with effects likened to smoking 50 cigarettes a day.
Oil prices rose 3 percent on Monday as Saudi Arabia’s crown prince cemented his power over the weekend with an anti-corruption crackdown.
Babies in Nigeria are twice as likely to die in the first month of life if their mothers were living near an oil spill before falling pregnant, researchers have found.
The just-unveiled Republican tax bill will eliminate a $7,500 federal tax credit for electric vehicles, and that would be Terrible news for Tesla. Shares of the automaker, already down after its earnings report, fell sharply on the news.
Climate change is already affecting the health of populations around the world, but things are set to get worse if adequate changes aren’t made, according to an international consortium of climate experts.
Researchers say a combination of human activities and the El Niño weather phenomenon drove CO2 to a level not seen in 800,000 years.
Back when just about every oil pump jack in town was running, Tara Smith had more work than she could handle.
Internal emails, recordings, interviews, and other documentation obtained by BuzzFeed News show how BP Alaska executives are struggling to “reset” the company’s safety culture after five dangerous accidents this year alone.
