Hello and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. His Friday 7 July. I’m Sammy Roth, energy and environment reporter for The Times. I also write our bi-weekly newsletter on the boiling point. Addressing the climate crisis that is already fueling deadlier heatwaves, more destructive wildfires, and worsening droughts in the American West will require building … Read more
Breathing in Chicago isn’t as easy as it once was. And it won’t get better. Just two days in a recent month-long period have seen the air in and around the city rated good. For several days the air was so bad the worst in the world that people were warned to stay indoors for … Read more
News By the Associated Press July 6, 2023 | 10:03pm As a warming Earth turned into new worry territory this week, scientists said the unofficial records set for the average planetary temperature were a clear sign of how pollutants released by humans are warming their environment. But the heat is also just one way the … Read more
Like a warming Earth boiled into troubling new territory This week, scientists said unofficial records set for the average planetary temperature are a clear sign of how pollutants released by humans are warming their environment. But the heat is also just one way the planet is telling us something is gravely wrong, they said. Heat … Read more
The remote Arctic islands of Svalbard, Norway, the world’s northernmost settlement, have been called a canary in the coal mine of climate change, warming more than twice as fast as other areas in the Arctic and five to seven times faster than the rest of the planet. Because of this warming, Svalbard is offering climate … Read more
Earth’s average temperature remained at a record high on Wednesday after two days of the planet hitting unofficial records. It is the latest indicator in a series of extremes driven by climate change. The global average temperature was 17.18 degrees Celsius (62.9 degrees Fahrenheit), according to the University of Maines Climate reanalyzer, an instrument that … Read more
Receive free updates on corporate training Well, I’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding last Corporate training news every morning. Alberto Antonizzi A common view in the financial sector is that carbon prices are harmful: by reducing the profitability of companies, a higher price will lower stock prices. But, while this may be … Read more
Receive free updates on corporate training Well, I’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding last Corporate training news every morning. Robert Pindyck is a professor of economics and finance at the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi MIT Sloan School of Management. He is the author of Climate future: Avoiding and adapting to climate change (The … Read more
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) In the rush to reduce California’s pollution and rid the state of fossil fuels, the most intriguing confrontation hasn’t involved business leaders or the oil industry. Instead, its simmering tensions between the state’s staunch environmental advocacy wing and the progressive governor of California who considers himself one of them. The modern environmental … Read more
We’ve made it to the fifth and final piece in our self-action series! Over the past month, we’ve explored how people are pushing for a clean, green, and just future in their personal lives, in the courts, at work, and within their communities. Today’s story focuses on a vehicle for systemic change that may not … Read more
