How Europe turned into a perfect landscape for wildfires
Forests absorb and store planet-warming carbon dioxide. They are also extremely vulnerable in the era of climate change. Europe is a case in point....Earth is heating at a rate equivalent to five atomic bombs per second
This is a re-post from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists The heat absorbed in Earth’s oceans reached a new record in 2019, found a recent study published...
Coal state Republican Rob Portman to join new climate change caucus
Coal state Republican Rob Portman of Ohio plans to join the Senate's bipartisan climate change caucus, the Washington Examiner has exclusively learned.
Buffing up San Francisco’s historic piers to survive sea level rise
When the now-historic finger piers along San Francisco’s Embarcadero were built, you can bet the builders never expected that a century later, there would be...
Trump Opens National Monument Land to Energy Exploration
The Trump administration finalized plans to open land once in Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument to mining and oil and gas exploration.
Framing the Climate Crisis as a Terrorism Issue Could Galvanize Action
A student argues that underlining global warming’s threats to national security could increase the sense of urgency and free up funding to take action. ...
Peter Lang
On October 8, 2017, the worst fire in California’s history was destroying drought-ridden Northern California. The 400 acres of Safari West, a preserve and home to...Q: Who are the climate winners and losers?
A: The developed countries are responsible for climate change. The developing countries will be the first to suffer. Extraordinary maps and data by Our World...