‘Mexico has become the first developing nation to submit pollutant reduction goals for next fall’s Paris climate change talks, pledging Friday to cut greenhouse gas and short-lived climate pollutants 25 percent by 2030.’

via Mexico Sets 25 Pct Pollution Cut by 2030 for Climate Talks – ABC News.

‘Women in countries such as Nigeria, Kenya, Chad, and Uganda have experienced financial gains, improved health, and safer living conditions thanks to the new 10-pound stainless steel stove.’

via The Simple Stove Curbing Climate Change in Africa | TakePart.

‘Cold snaps like the ones that hit the eastern United States in the past winters are not a consequence of climate change. Scientists at ETH Zurich and the California Institute of Technology have shown that global warming actually tends to reduce temperature variability.’

via Climate change does not cause extreme winters, new study shows.

‘…a new study in Nature Climate Change argues that the Atlantic overturning circulation isn’t just fluctuating up and down. The researchers, led by Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Research, created an index of the AMOC’s behavior going back centuries. They conclude the system is currently at its weakest level in 1,100 years, perhaps due to an influx of freshwater from Greenland’s melting ice sheet’

via Study: The Gulf Stream system may already be weakening. That’s not good. – Vox.

‘New tests show almost all of the fuel inside one of the Fukushima plant’s reactors has melted, its operator said Thursday, the latest step in the clean up after Japan’s worst ever nuclear crisis.’

via Nearly all fuel in Fukushima reactor has melted, says TEPCO – Yahoo News.

“The technique works by turning water to steam, which is treated to remove oxygen and produce hydrogen. Carbon dioxide is taken from the atmosphere and mixed with the hydrogen to create what Sunfire describes as ‘high-purity synthetic fuels’, or ‘e-fuels’.”

via Is steam power the answer to our energy problems?.

‘The project is to build what is called a New Safe Confinement – in effect, a giant cover, a kind of dome, to fit over the building that houses the reactor that exploded on 26 April, 1986.’

via BBC News – Chernobyl: Containing the world’s worst nuclear accident.

‘The Department of the Interior manages the nation’s energy resources, including the coal, oil and gas, located on more than 500 million acres of public land across the country, and more than 1.7 billion acres offshore.’

via Interior Secretary Says Climate Change Must Factor Into Decisions To Drill On Public Lands | ThinkProgress.

‘The Federal Emergency Management Agency is making it tougher for governors to deny man-made climate change.’

via FEMA to States: No Climate Planning, No Money | InsideClimate News.

‘(Reuters) – Pacific Islands devastated by Cyclone Pam at the weekend will be using the disaster to drive home the need for a globally funded insurance pool to aid in the recovery from such events when they attend climate-change talks in Paris later this year.’

via Pacific nations to highlight Cyclone Pam in climate talks | Reuters.