Hurricane Milton dumped so much rain over parts of Florida’s Tampa Bay area that it qualified as a 1-in-1,000-year rainfall event . St. Petersburg had 18.31 inches of rain — or more than 1.5 feet — in the 24-hour period during which the storm made landfall, according to precipitation […] Click here to view original […]

It’s 30 November 2023. Delegates from countries that align with the United Nations climate change framework convene in the UAE for a critical moment of transformative climate action – COP28. Click here to view original web page at Let’s frame climate change as a health issue

Smoke from wildfires in Portland, Oregon, in September 2020. Oregon officials have added the state’s largest natural gas utility as a defendant in their $50 billion lawsuit against fossil fuel companies over their contribution to climate change. The suit — the first to make climate-related deception claims against a […] Click here to view original

A jogger trots in light rain ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Milton in Tampa, Fla. Julio Cortez/AP As Hurricane Milton approaches Florida’s central west coast, residents are preparing for the worst. The storm exploded into a Category 5 hurricane earlier this week, and now threatens to be one […] Click here to view original

California’s lawsuit against ExxonMobil for lying about plastic recycling is the latest example of the state using old-fashioned legal tools to address more modern harms. Ballona Creek leading to Santa Monica Bay choked with plastic pollution (Photo Credit: Bill MacDonald, from California’s complaint) The media have moved on (understandably) […] Click here to view original

Michael Campanella / Getty Images At a congressional hearing on the greenhouse effect in 1981, Al Gore, then a member of the House of Representatives from Tennessee, remarked that it was hard to come to terms with the fact that rising carbon dioxide emissions could radically alter our world. […] Click here to view original