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9/7/21

…Biden’s 3.5 trillion dollar Build Back Better plan

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Calling ‘Code Red’ on Climate, Biden Pushes for Infrastructure Plan

President Biden in Queens on Tuesday, flanked by Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York, left, and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

The New York Times

Calling ‘Code Red’ on Climate, Biden Pushes for Infrastructure Plan

By Katie Rogers and Juliet Macur Photo: Sarahbeth Maney/The New York Times 9/7/21

“The nation and the world are in peril,” the president said during a stop in a hard-hit borough of New York City. “And that’s not…

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The New York Times

Calling ‘Code Red’ on Climate, Biden Pushes for Infrastructure Plan

By Katie Rogers and Juliet Macur Photo: Sarahbeth Maney/The New York Times 9/7/21

“The nation and the world are in peril,” the president said during a stop in a hard-hit borough of New York City. “And that’s not…
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The New York Times

Opinion: Don’t Let Inflation Anxiety Undermine Our Future

By Paul Krugman    Photo: Benjamin Norman/Redux

Even if inflation is a bigger problem than the Biden administration or like-minded economists think it is, however, what are the implications beyond monetary policy?…

Sep282021

Speaker of the House

Pelosi Remarks at Press Event on Building Back Better on Climate

Press Release

Speaker Nancy Pelosi joined House Democrats, the League of Conservation Voters, Climate Power and other climate activists for a press event highlighting critical provisions in…

Sep132021

The Washington Post

As the largest-ever U.S. climate bill inches forward, a lobbying frenzy ensues

By Steven Mufson and Tony Romm     Photo: Bridget Bennet/Reuters

Biden and his deputies make the case for massive spending on climate action as fires and floods continue across the country

Sep92021

BNN Bloomberg

Natural Gas Excluded in Democrats’ Budget Plan for Clean Energy

By Ari Natter    Photo: Eddie Seal/Bloomberg , Bloomberg

Natural gas won’t count as clean energy under a House Democratic plan that would eventually rid the electric grid of carbon and is part of…

Sep82021

The New York Times

‘This Is the Biden Agenda’

By David Leonhardt    Photo: Oliver Contreras for The New York Times

Early in Bill Clinton’s presidency, House Democrats voted to pass an energy tax, known as the B.T.U. tax, only to watch the Senate prevent the…

Sep82021

CNN

Here’s what’s in the Senate version of the Democrats’ $3.5 trillion spending plan

By Tami Luhby and Katie Lobosco

Senate Democrats released their sweeping $3.5 trillion budget resolution on Monday, August 9 — the latest step in their drive to expand education, health care…

Sep72021

The Washington Post

With bulk of their agenda on the line, Democrats gird for battle over $3.5 trillion budget package

By Tony Romm    Photo: Jim Lo Scalzo/Shutterstock

Lawmakers will try to assemble major planks of Biden’s agenda, including health care, climate change and anti-poverty programs

Aug262021

The New York Times

Remaking the economy

By David Leonhardt and Ian Prasad Philbrick    Photo: Sarahbeth Maney

President Biden’s domestic agenda seems to be back on track in Congress. House Democrats resolved a procedural spat this week, and they and Senate Democrats…

Aug142021

The New York Times

Finding the Will to Stave Off a Darker Future

By The Editorial Board    Photo: Alyssa Schukar

In June 1988 a NASA scientist, Dr. James Hansen, appeared on a very hot day in Washington and told a group of powerful senators that…

8/28/21

…Hurricanes and Flooding

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Intensifying Hurricane Ida a significant threat to key infrastructure

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Intensifying Hurricane Ida a significant threat to key infrastructure

By Jeff Masters and Bob Henson Photo: NOAA/RAMMB/Colorado State University 8/28/21

After making landfall in western Cuba on Friday night as a category 1 hurricane with 80 mph winds, Hurricane Ida is now in the Gulf…

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Intensifying Hurricane Ida a significant threat to key infrastructure

By Jeff Masters and Bob Henson Photo: NOAA/RAMMB/Colorado State University 8/28/21

After making landfall in western Cuba on Friday night as a category 1 hurricane with 80 mph winds, Hurricane Ida is now in the Gulf…
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The New York Times

New Orleans is coming back from Ida, but rural Louisiana is still struggling.

By Sophie Kasakove    Photo: John Locher/Associated Press

Christine Verdin received numerous photos from friends and family of the destruction Hurricane Ida brought to the rural community of Pointe-aux-Chenes, which runs along a…

Sep92021

The New York Times

Nearly all power has been restored in New Orleans, where at least 10 people died of excess heat after Ida.

By Giulia Heyward and Sophie Kasakove    Photo: Chris Granger

With the vast majority of lights now on in New Orleans, city officials on Thursday were prepared for the next phase in navigating the aftermath…

Sep72021

TIME

Can Hurricane Ida Move Public Opinion on Climate Change?

By Justin Worland

For many climate reporters, myself included, the arrival of Hurricane Ida brought a recognizable pit to the stomach. The details of the stories emerging as…

Sep52021

The New York Times

Hurricane Larry Strengthens to a Category 3 Storm

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Hurricane Larry, the 12th named storm of the busy 2021 Atlantic hurricane season, strengthened into a Category 3 hurricane on Friday night in the eastern…

Sep32021

Yale Climate Connections

Death toll from Ida climbs above 60 from Louisiana to New England

By Bob Henson and Jeff Masters    Photo: Michael Stokes

At least 48 people have died in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast as a result of flooding and tornadoes associated with Post-Tropical Cyclone Ida, and the…

Sep32021

AP

More than 45 dead after Ida’s remnants blindside Northeast

By Bobby Caina Calvan, David Porter And Jennifer Peltz    Photo: AP Photo/Craig Ruttle

A stunned U.S. East Coast faced a rising death toll, surging rivers and tornado damage Thursday after the remnants of Hurricane Ida walloped the region…

Sep22021

TIME

U.S. Civil Engineers Bent the Rules to Give New Orleans Extra Protection from Hurricanes. Those Adjustments Might Have Saved the City During Ida

By Alejandro De La Garza

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which hit New Orleans in late August 2005, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was tasked with building a…

Sep22021

Yale Climate Connections

Northeast pummeled with colossal flooding, destructive tornadoes

By Bob Henson and Jeff Masters     Photo: Piyush Patel

Some of the worst urban flash flooding in U.S. history struck the New York City area on Wednesday night, as the remnants of once-category 4…

Sep22021

The New York Times

43 Die as Deadliest Storm Since Sandy Devastates the Northeast

By Andy Newman    Photo: Bryan Anselm

Three days after Hurricane Ida made landfall in Louisiana, its weakened remnants tore into the Northeast and claimed at least 43 lives across New York,…

Sep22021

The New York Times

The Truth Is That You Can’t Protect Everything From Every Hurricane

By Robert S. Young    Photo: Emily Kask for The New York Times

Hurricane Ida, which on Sunday struck the coast of Louisiana near Port Fourchon as a very strong Category 4 storm, will teach us many lessons.…

Sep12021

Politico

Ida churns up tension on infrastructure vs. climate change

By Zack Colman    Photo: Steve Helber/AP Photo

Hurricane Ida’s lashing of Louisiana is supercharging a fight in Washington over spending tens of billions of dollars to protect the U.S. from future storms.

Sep12021

AP

Power makes slow return to eastern New Orleans

By AP    Photo: Scott Clause/The Daily Advertiser via AP

Entergy said Wednesday that it is slowly adding power back to New Orleans, and the pace of that work will determine how quickly the region’s…

Sep12021

The New York Times

Lack of Power Hinders Assessment of Toxic Pollution Caused by Ida

By Hiroko Tabuchi    Photo: Devika Krishna Kumar/Reuters

A fertilizer plant battered by Hurricane Ida belched highly toxic anhydrous ammonia into the air. Two damaged gas pipelines leaked isobutane and propylene, flammable chemicals…

Sep12021

The Washington Post

Before and after images show the devastation from Hurricane Ida

By Kasha Patel    Photo: NOAA via AP

When Ida crashed into southeast Louisiana on Sunday, shoreline and inland communities were pummeled, some completely transformed and now unrecognizable. The storm brought 150 mph…

Aug312021

The Hill

Scientists detail role of climate change in Ida’s intensity

By Zack Budryk and Rachel Frazin

A combination of climate-related factors such as warm ocean temperatures and increased sea level rise helped fuel Hurricane Ida and its path of destruction, scientists…

Aug312021

The New York Times

New Orleanians struggle to find their footing after yet another hurricane.

By Richard Fausset    Photo: Edmund D. Fountain

Nearly all of the built city survived this time. But the misery has already arrived in New Orleans, after Hurricane Ida punched up the city…

Aug312021

The New York Times

Hurricane Ida could make the supply chain disaster even worse.

By Peter S. Goodman    Photo: Callaghan O'Hare

In normal times, the devastation of a massive hurricane like Ida tends to be followed by an aggressive rebuilding effort, as carpenters, roofers and other…

Aug312021

The New York Times

Hurricane Ida Offers a Glimpse of the Dystopia That’s Coming for All of Us

By Andy Horowitz    Photo: Mickey Welsh, via Reuters

As a boy, Louis Armstrong worked for the Karnofsky family. The Karnofskys’ tailor shop on South Rampart Street in New Orleans became a second home…

Aug312021

The New York Times

Louisiana Residents Survey Devastation After Hurricane Ida

By Associated Press

Search-and-rescue efforts continued for those stranded after the Category 4 storm battered the state. Officials warned that recovery could take days or even weeks.

Aug312021

The New York Times

As a preview of future hurricanes, Ida is ‘very scary.’

By Winston Choi-Schagrin    Photo: Edmund D. Fountain

The effects of Hurricane Ida will be felt far from where it made landfall in southern Louisiana on Sunday. As it moves across the Upper…

Aug302021

Reuters

New Orleans homeless shelters scramble to bring in residents, facing storm and Covid surge

By Devika Krishna Kumar    Photo: Marco Bello

Alarmed aid workers raced to get New Orleans’ homeless off the streets on Sunday ahead of fast-moving Hurricane Ida, a complicated, last-minute push made all…

Aug302021

AP

Hurricane Ida lashes Louisiana, knocks out New Orleans power

By Rebecca Santana    Photo: AP Photo/Steve Helber

Hurricane Ida blasted ashore Sunday as one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the U.S., knocking out power to all of New Orleans,…

Aug302021

The Atlantic

We’re Hitting the Limits of Hurricane Preparedness

By Robinson Meyer    Photo: Brandon Bell / Getty

Seventy-four hours. That’s roughly how much time separated the moment that Tropical Depression Nine formed in the Caribbean from the moment that the storm, transformed…

Aug302021

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Oil Industry Surveys Damage After Hurricane Ida Slams Louisiana

By Collin Eaton and Jennifer Hiller    Photo: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg News

Energy companies were assessing the health of refineries, pipelines, petrochemical plants and offshore oil platforms along the central Gulf of Mexico on Monday, the day…

Aug292021

Nola.Com

Hurricane Ida: Louisiana residents ask to be rescued; officials say it’s too dangerous to be on road

By Emma Discher    Photo: David Grunfeld

First responders in St. John the Baptist Parish have received at least one confirmed report of people trapped in their attic and others needing to…

Aug292021

The Washington Post

Nearly 1 million customers without power as Hurricane Ida charges inland

By Jason Samenow and others

Nearly 1 million customers were without power in Louisiana on Sunday night as Hurricane Ida battered the southeastern part of the state on the 16th…

Aug282021

Houston Chronicle

Oil companies shut down 91% of Gulf production ahead of Hurricane Ida

By Paul Takahashi

Oil companies have temporarily shut down nearly 91 percent of crude production in the Gulf of Mexico as Hurricane Ida barrels toward the Louisiana coast,…

8/9/21

…IPCC’s latest report cautioning that the world risks increasingly catastrophic impacts in the absence of rapid greenhouse gas reductions

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The scary new climate report means fossil fuel use needs to start falling, fast

By Sammy Roth, Russ Mitchell and Sam Dean Photo: Michael Owen Baker / For The Times 8/9/21

Scientists have said that zeroing out planet-warming emissions by midcentury is needed to stave off the worst consequences of the climate crisis. But there’s a…

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Los Angeles Times

The scary new climate report means fossil fuel use needs to start falling, fast

By Sammy Roth, Russ Mitchell and Sam Dean Photo: Michael Owen Baker / For The Times 8/9/21

Scientists have said that zeroing out planet-warming emissions by midcentury is needed to stave off the worst consequences of the climate crisis. But there’s a…
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Greentech Media

Why This IPCC Climate Report Is Different

By Stephen Lacey

Thousands of scientists have spent decades pouring over every measurement and research report known. The findings are clearer than ever: It is “virtually certain” that the…

Aug242021

YALE Climate Connections

Cartoonists’ ‘Code Red’ caricatures of new IPCC report

By Michael Svoboda

The first part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Sixth Assessment Report, described by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres as “code red for humanity,”…

Aug172021

Chicago Tribune

Climate change a ‘code red for humanity’ — and the Great Lakes

By The Editorial Board    Photo: Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune

A recent report by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a 4,000-page document viewed as the most comprehensive look at climate ever…

Aug142021

The New York Times

Finding the Will to Stave Off a Darker Future

By The Editorial Board    Photo: Alyssa Schukar

In June 1988 a NASA scientist, Dr. James Hansen, appeared on a very hot day in Washington and told a group of powerful senators that…

Aug132021

CLIMATE WIRE

Climate scientists have a message for the world: Don’t give up

By Chelsea Harvey    Photo: NASA/Newscom

Climate change is real, it’s happening now, and it’s wreaking havoc across the world. So said a much-anticipated report released Monday by the U.N. Intergovernmental…

Aug122021

CNN

Scientists say this invisible gas could seal our fate on climate change

By Rachel Ramirez

Slashing carbon dioxide emissions is critical to ending the climate crisis. But, for the first time, the UN climate change report emphasized the need to…

Aug122021

THE HILL

How IPCC went from ‘not proven’ that we cause climate change in 1990 to ‘we are guilty’ in 2021

By Ben Santer    Photo: Getty Images

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) advises the world’s governments on climate change science, impacts and response strategies, and recently released their latest report…

Aug122021

Newsweek Magazine

‘Code Red’ Climate Activism Art Around the World

By Kathleen Rellihan    Photo: Zaria Forman

“Engaging with art can make the world felt. And this feeling spurs thinking, connection and even action,” says Olafur Eliasson, the Danish-Icelandic climate-focused artist, about the…

Aug122021

YALE Climate Connections

The new IPCC Report includes – get this, good news

By Dana Nuccitelli

As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its Sixth Assessment Report, summarized nicely on these pages by Bob Henson, much of the associated…

Aug112021

Politico

Dire UN report on warming planet leaves GOP senators cold

By Ben Lefebvre And Anthony Adragna    Photo: Keith Srakocic/AP Photo

The United Nations report that found the nations are already facing catastrophic effects from climate change drew a cool reception from Republican senators, who were…

Aug112021

Atmos

All Hands on Deck

By Yessenia Funes    Photo: Misha Taylor

“Irreversible.” “Widespread.” “Unprecedented.” “Code red.” These were the words used to describe the climate crisis in the new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate…

Aug112021

El Paso Matters

What the new climate change report means for El Paso and the Southwest

By Danielle Prokop

The Southwestern United States is on the frontlines of climate change and the decades-long effects on the El Paso area will likely worsen, local and…

Aug112021

Politico

Why politicians should read the grim climate report



In the latest climate report released by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, scientists painted a grim outlook for the world as a…

Aug112021

The New Yorker

The U.N. Climate Panel Tries to Cut Through the Smog

By Bill McKibben    Photo: Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert / Alamy

We all live in two worlds: a physical one and a social one. The new report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was…

Aug102021

NPR

Climate Report Co-Author: ‘The Pile Of Evidence Is Now Enormous’

By Ari Shapiro and others

It’s no longer a question. The U.N. says the human impact on the Earth’s climate is unequivocal, and things will get far worse unless countries…

Aug102021

The Verge

A NASA scientist explains why the weather is becoming more extreme

By Justine Calma    Photo: Brendan Smialowski/afp Via Getty Images

Across China and Western Europe in July, the amount of rain that might typically fall over several months to a year came down within a…

Aug102021

NPR

3 Things To Know About What Scientists Say About Our Future Climate

By Lauren Sommer and Ruth Talbot

More than 200 climate scientists just released a stark look at how fast the climate is warming, showing heat waves, extreme rain and intense droughts…

Aug92021

Time

The Language Of Climate Change Just Changed in a Major Way

By Elijah Wolfson    Photo: Ben Stansall—AFP via Getty Images

In so many ways, not much has changed since the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)—perhaps the premiere climate science-and-policy organization in the…

Aug92021

THE CONVERSATION

IPCC climate report: Profound changes are underway in Earth’s oceans and ice – a lead author explains what the warnings mean

By Robert Kopp    Photo: John McConnico/AP Photo

Humans are unequivocally warming the planet, and that’s triggering rapid changes in the atmosphere, oceans and polar regions, and increasing extreme weather around the world,…

Aug92021

Wired

The UN Climate Report: All Is Not Well—but All Is Not Lost

By Matt Simon    Photo: Yasin Akgul/Getty Images

Today the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released an alarming new report on the state of the climate: 14,000 pieces of scientific literature…

Aug92021

Vox

The devastating new UN report on climate change, explained

By Umair Irfan and Rebecca Leber    Photo: Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations’ climate science research group, concluded in a major report that it is “unequivocal” that humans…

Aug92021

Inside Climate News

Global Climate Panel’s Report: No Part of the Planet Will be Spared

By Bob Berwyn    Photo: Bob Berwyn/Inside Climate News

A new IPCC science assessment, coming before COP26 in November, called for immediate action and showed that this summer’s extremes are only a mild preview…

Aug92021

Carbon Brief

In-depth Q&A: The IPCC’s sixth assessment report on climate science

By Alisa Singer    Photo: Alisa Singer

The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has published the first part of its sixth assessment report (AR6), which will form the cornerstone…

Aug92021

Scientific American

Earth Is Warmer Than It’s Been in 125,000 Years

By Jeff Tollefson    Photo: David Ryder Getty Images

Modern society’s continued dependence on fossil fuels is warming the world at a pace that is unprecedented in the past 2,000 years—and its effects are…

Aug92021

The Atlantic

It’s Grim

By Robinson Meyer    Photo: NurPhoto / Getty Images

A new United Nations–led report from hundreds of climate scientists around the world makes it clear: The human-driven climate crisis is now well under way.…

Aug92021

GIZMODO

5 Big Takeaways From the New UN Climate Report

By Dharna Noor    Photo: Angelos Tzortzinis / Getty Images

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s massive new report, published early Monday morning, makes it absolutely clear that the climate crisis isn’t waiting for us…

Aug92021

CLIMATE HOME NEWS

Five takeaways from the IPCC’s 2021 climate science report

By Isabelle Gerretsen    Photo: Subrata Biswas / Greenpeace

The UN’s climate science body has published a major report on the physical changes happening and projected to occur as a result of human activity,…

Aug92021

The Guardian

Climate crisis ‘unequivocally’ caused by human activities, says IPCC report

By Damian Carrington     Photo: Sébastien Bozon/AFP/Getty Images

“It is unequivocal.” Those stark three words are the first in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s new report. The climate crisis is unequivocally caused…

Aug92021

Independent

IPCC report: Greta Thunberg says world ‘must be brave’ to overcome climate emergency

By Rory Sullivan

The world must be “brave” in confronting the climate emergency, Greta Thunberg has said after the publication of a comprehensive new UN report. The environmental…

Aug92021

Grist

What scientists are saying about the UN climate report

By Zoya Teirstein     Photo: Patrick T. Fallon / Afp Via Getty Images

The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, came out with its sixth annual climate change assessment on Monday. The IPCC report, which…

Aug92021

Our Daily Planet

New IPCC Report: Time for Debate is Over, This is Our Last Chance for Drastic Action

    Graphic by Annabel Driussi for ODP

This morning the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the first part of its 6th major assessment report. This report provides a high-level…

Aug92021

The Boston Globe

Climate change has reached an unprecedented level, with little time to act, a stark new UN report finds

By Sabrina Shankman    Photo: Angelos Tzortzinis/afp Via Getty Images

Earth’s climate is warming at a faster rate than previously thought, and with greater and more widespread consequences, according to a landmark report by the…

Aug92021

The Guardian

First Thing: Major climate changes inevitable and irreversible, says IPCC in starkest warning yet

By Jedidajah Otte    Photo: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Widespread devastation and extreme weather are likely to become inevitable within the next two decades thanks to human behaviour causing rising temperatures, the International Panel…

Aug92021

The New York Times

A Hotter Future Is Certain, Climate Panel Warns. But How Hot Is Up to Us.

By Brad Plumer and Henry Fountain    Photo: David Swanson/Reuters

Nations have delayed curbing their fossil-fuel emissions for so long that they can no longer stop global warming from intensifying over the next 30 years,…

Aug92021

The Washington Post

Humans have pushed the climate into ‘unprecedented’ territory, landmark U.N. report finds

By Brady Dennis and Sarah Kaplan     Photo: NOAA/NASA GOES Project

More than three decades ago, a collection of scientists assembled by the United Nations first warned that humans were fueling a dangerous greenhouse effect and…

Aug62021

The Washington Post

The climate news is about to get a lot worse

By Ishaan Tharoor    Photo: Kenan Gurbuz/Reuters

If the headlines don’t already feel rather apocalyptic, they are about to get worse. On Monday, the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will…

Aug62021

skepticalscience

Why the IPCC climate reports are so important

By ClimateAdam

The intergovernmental panel on climate change releases the definitive reports on global warming, with the next major report coming out in 2021 and 2022. But…

Aug62021

Scientific American

New Climate Report Will Detail Grim Future of Hotter, Extreme Weather and Rising Seas

By Jeff Tollefson    Photo: Chip Somodevilla Getty Images

The United Nations is poised to release the most confident and comprehensive assessment yet of global warming, including detailed estimates of how continued greenhouse-gas emissions…

Jul262021

BBC

Climate change: Researchers begin discussions on vital report

By Matt McGrath    Photo: Getty Images

Against a backdrop of fires and floods, researchers are meeting virtually to finalise a key climate science study. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)…

Jul222021

Scientific American

What to Expect from the Next Major Global Climate Report

By Sara Schonhardt    Photo: Ty O'Neil Alamy

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change grabbed the world’s attention in 2018 when it released a sobering report that warned—in no uncertain terms—world leaders needed…

Jul212021

Inside Climate News

Do Leaked Climate Reports Help or Hurt Public Understanding of Global Warming?

By Bob Berwyn    Photo: Hector Guerrero/AFP via Getty Images

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has always been a lightning rod for controversy. Since its creation in 1988, conspiracy theorists and politicians funded by…

7/13/21

…drought dries up the west

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Drought Hits the Southwest, and New Mexico’s Canals Run Dry

The New York Times

Drought Hits the Southwest, and New Mexico’s Canals Run Dry

By Simon Romero Photo: Ramsay de Give for NYT 7/13/21

Acequias, the fabled irrigation ditches that are a cornerstone of New Mexican culture, have endured centuries of challenges. Can they survive the Southwest’s megadrought?

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The New York Times

Drought Hits the Southwest, and New Mexico’s Canals Run Dry

By Simon Romero Photo: Ramsay de Give for NYT 7/13/21

Acequias, the fabled irrigation ditches that are a cornerstone of New Mexican culture, have endured centuries of challenges. Can they survive the Southwest’s megadrought?
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NOAA

Even small additional increases in greenhouse gases will make decades-long “megadroughts” in the Southwest more common

By Michon Scott and Rebecca Lindsey

At the dawn of the 21st century, drought descended on southwestern North America. Two decades later, the drought continues. Recent NOAA-funded research found that even…

Sep162021

The New York Times

Climate Scientists Forecast High Temperatures Into the Fall

By Henry Fountain    Photo: Josh Edelson/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

After a summer of blistering heat across much of the country, the hotter-than-normal conditions that have contributed to severe drought across the West are forecast…

Sep162021

The Student Life

‘Drought is the norm:’ California’s water crisis becomes perpetual

By Kumail Afshar and Siena Swift     Photo: Shutter Theory

California residents are used to drought conditions, with shorter showers encouraged by teachers and conservationists, ads paid for by the state supporting abstaining from watering…

Sep132021

The Washington Post

California’s disappearing salmon

By Scott Wilson    Photo: Melina Mara

The drought, along with man-made impediments, has placed the state’s wild Chinook population at grave risk.

Aug252021

The New York Times

‘The Worst Thing I Can Ever Remember’: How Drought Is Crushing Ranchers

By Henry Fountain    Photo: Benjamin Rasmussen

Darrell Rice stood in a field of corn he’d planted in early June, to be harvested in the fall and chopped up to feed the…

Aug242021

UC DAVIS

Drought and Climate Change Shift Tree Disease in Sierra Nevada

By Kat Kerlin    Photo: Joan Dudney/UC Davis

Even pathogens have their limits. When it gets too hot or too dry, some pathogens — like many living things — search for cooler, wetter…

Aug192021

The New York Times

Western Drought Will Last Into Fall or Longer

By Henry Fountain    Photo: Robyn Beck/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

The severe drought that has gripped much of the western half of the United States in spring and summer is likely to continue at least…

Aug182021

YALE Climate Connections

Climate change and droughts: What’s the connection?

By Tiffany Means    Photo: docentjoyce

Events such as the moderate-to-extreme drought conditions that covered more than half of the mainland U.S. in 2012, the megadrought in the West that continues…

Aug162021

The New York Times

In a First, U.S. Declares Shortage on Colorado River, Forcing Water Cuts

By Henry Fountain    Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

With climate change and long-term drought continuing to take a toll on the Colorado River, the federal government on Monday for the first time declared…

Aug152021

YALE Climate Connections

Is Western U.S. experiencing a ‘megadrought’?

By Peter Sinclair

The Western U.S. is shattering drought records this summer. For the first time since the drought monitor was created, over 95% of the region is…

Aug142021

The Wall Street Journal

Severe Drought Could Threaten Power Supply in West for Years to Come

By Lindsay Huth and Taylor Umlauf    Photo: Carter McCall/WSJ

As drought persists across more than 95% of the American West, water elevation at the Hoover Dam has sunk to record-low levels, endangering a source…

Aug142021

The New York Times

Small Towns Grow Desperate for Water in California

By Thomas Fuller    Photo: Max Whittaker

As a measure of both the nation’s creaking infrastructure and the severity of the drought gripping California there is the $5 shower. That’s how much…

Aug92021

The New Yorker

The Lost Canyon Under Lake Powell

By Elizabeth Kolbert

The scope of the spending outlined by Democrats is vast, reflecting the party’s grand ambitions to grow the size and reach of the federal government…

Jul282021

The Washington Post

Illegal cannabis growers are stealing water amid California’s drought, officials say

By Rachel Pannett    Photo: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images

California’s deepening drought is creating another big problem for authorities: water theft. Water thieves, many of them illegal marijuana growers, are tapping into fire hydrants…

Jul232021

Los Angeles Times

Thousands of Central Valley farmers may lose access to surface water amid worsening drought

By Julia Wick    Photo: Gary Coronado

As California endures an increasingly brutal second year of drought, state water regulators are considering an emergency order that would bar thousands of Central Valley…

Jul212021

latimes

Drone photos reveal the shocking truth of California’s parched landscape

By Brian Van Der Brug     Photo: Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times

As the West descends deeper into drought, climate and water experts are growing increasingly alarmed by California’s shriveling reservoirs. Photos of Lake Oroville, Folsom Lake, Trinity…

Jul192021

Vice

Extreme Drought Could Shut Down a Hydroelectric Power Plant In California

By Audrey Carleton

Officials are preparing for the likelihood that California’s record breaking drought will come for its renewable energy stores. The West Coast state, which has been weathering wildfires, 126-year…

Jul182021

The New York Times

Scorched, Parched and Now Uninsurable: Climate Change Hits Wine Country

By Christopher Flavelle    Photo: Mike Kai Chen

ST. HELENA, Calif. — Last September, a wildfire tore through one of Dario Sattui’s Napa Valley wineries, destroying millions of dollars in property and equipment,…

Jul162021

latimes

The current drought is worldwide. Here’s how different places are fighting it

By Celina Tebor    Photo: Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times

The world is facing unprecedented levels of drought. In the U.S., nearly half the mainland is currently afflicted, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association.…

Jul162021

insideclimatenews

‘There Are No Winners Here’: Drought in the Klamath Basin Inflames a Decades-Old War Over Water and Fish

By Anne Marshall-Chalmers    Photo: Anne Marshall-Chalmers

TULELAKE, Calif.—Joey Gentry hesitates before she drives through the fields of alfalfa and wheat that line the roads in the Klamath Basin. “Because I’m good…

7/13/21

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Wildfires blaze across western states as heatwave shatters records

By Guardian staff and agency Photo: Noah Berger/AP 7/13/21

Warning of potential for ‘extreme growth’ of Oregon blaze as two die in Arizona fire reconnaissance plane crash. Firefighters are working in extreme heat to…

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Wildfires blaze across western states as heatwave shatters records

By Guardian staff and agency Photo: Noah Berger/AP 7/13/21

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1 of every 8 acres in California has burned in the last 10 years. Here’s where the biggest fires spread — and are burning now

By Paul Rogers and Paiching Wei    Photo: AP Photo/Noah Berger

If it seems like wildfires in California are getting larger, they are. Nine of the state’s 10 largest wildfires since 1932, when modern records began,…

Aug302021

Los Angeles Times

Forest Service officials confirm all California national forests to temporarily close

By Gregory Yee    Photo: Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times

All of California’s national forests will be closed beginning late Tuesday. The closures will go into effect at 11:59 p.m. Tuesday and stay in place…

Aug272021

The New York Times

Lake Tahoe Suffocates With Smoke

By Thomas Fuller and Shawn Hubler    Photo: Max Whittaker for The New York Times

Smoke from the Caldor fire is overwhelming one of California’s most iconic regions — and confounding thousands of newcomers who fled there in recent months…

Aug272021

AP

‘Tinderbox conditions’ fuel fire in Superior National Forest

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Officials in the Superior National Forest said Thursday that the ongoing drought has created “tinderbox conditions” in northeastern Minnesota as firefighters continue to battle an…

Aug262021

National Geographic

Fires feast on a national park in Northern California

By Kurt Repanshek

It’s not surprising that Lassen Peak has long been overshadowed by Yosemite and Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. Although this summit looms over the…

Aug202021

The New York Times