For Laurie Goering's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
An accelerating push to build enough carbon capture and storage capacity to meet expected demand — and hold onto global climate goals — faces huge obstacles.
Rising seas, driven by melting glaciers and polar ice and by the expansion of warming oceans, threaten low-lying communities from the Pacific islands to U.S. cities.
China is today the world's largest emitter of planet-heating gases, responsible for about 28% of total global emissions.
Weather-related disasters are displacing 16 million people a year, with water shortages and crop failures making vulnerable people prey to human traffickers, the British prime minister said.
Like the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change is a problem countries must work together to address or "all nations will feel the reverberations," the United Nations' climate chief warned on Wednesday. The novel coronavirus has ignored national borders and "climate change respects them even less," Patricia ...
As more companies commit to cutting their emissions to net zero, the offsets they purchase could spur development of clean technologies like hydrogen fuel.
Longer and hotter heat waves driven by climate change are becoming an increasingly dangerous — and costly — menace.
Keeping planetary heating in check could help avoid some of the worst predicted impacts of climate change, from wilder weather and sea level rise, scientists say.
Experts warn that people are not seeing rising threats as urgent, leading to a lack of adequate responses.
As the new coronavirus swept across the Seattle area, one of the hardest-hit areas in the United States, the University of Washington earlier this month shuttered its classrooms in a bid to contain the spread of the disease. But lecturer Ian Schnee's philosophy class for ...
