‘Flash droughts’ are Midwest’s next big climate threat
Fast-moving droughts are developing more and more quickly as climate change pushes temperatures to new extremes. …
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Fast-moving droughts are developing more and more quickly as climate change pushes temperatures to new extremes. …
To have a chance of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius and avoiding the worst climate impacts, the world needs to transform global energy systems now. …
The 2018 to 2020 European drought was the worst in more than two centuries, driven in part by uncommonly high temperatures that exacerbated dry conditions across large parts of the continent, new research finds. …
Three wildfires skirted the author’s Boulder home. Then two more converged on her ancestral house in New Mexico. In the drying West, people must now keep their “head on a swivel.” …
The Western U.S. is experiencing its longest continuous streak of dry years since 800 A.D. …
A star-studded, 242-track trove of songs and poems inspired by birdsong is the latest project in a series of releases raising awareness about its own threatened sources. …
More storms, from the Atlantic and the Gulf, prompt cities, homeowners to defend critical infrastructure. …
Katharine Hayhoe won’t say that the climate crisis is insurmountable, but she will say that solving it depends on convincing people it’s a problem that affects them. …
A budget flush with petroleum cash has a side effect: It also puts the spotlight on how difficult it is to turn state rhetoric on tackling climate change into reality. …
18 species whose populations may be in trouble will get a review for threatened or endangered status from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). …