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Insurance market joins environmentalists in highlighting the huge damage potential from drilling in fragile Arctic region. Read More
Over the past several decades, with the exception of the Southeast, spring weather has been arriving earlier in most parts of the United States. This shift affects all sorts of biological processes that are triggered by warmer temperatures — not just flowering, but animal migration and giving birth and the shedding of winter coats and the … Read More
New studies show that a warming Atlantic is drying the Amazon rainforest, which is priming the region for bigger fires. Read More
Dramatically reducing emissions of one of the key contributors to global warming “ nitrous oxide “ will require farmers to change their ways of growing food, and citizens in the developed world to slash their yearly meat consumption, according to a new study published Friday. The study by Eric Davidson, the director of the Woods Hole Research … Read More
In 2011, it was Texas that went up in flames, with a historic drought and searing heat wave leading to the worst wildfire season on record. A year later, another southern state affected by intense drought is bracing for a destructive wildfire season: Florida. While Texas has received drought-busting rains during recent months, long-term drought … Read More
Climate scientists have been explaining for years that the problem with global warming isn’t just warming. It’s also about the other changes warming can bring, including heat waves, droughts, rising seas, intense storms and much more. One of the scariest possibilities is that major ocean currents could abruptly stop entirely, plunging areas like … Read More
Given the climate change-related challenges the city faces, it’s no surprise New York is mobilizing to fortify its infrastructure. It is spending $1.5 billion over 15 years to improve its stormwater management, cooling white roofs and clean-fuel buses, and has pledged to reduce city-wide greenhouse gas emissions below 2005 levels by 2030.… Read More
Due to the extraordinary heat wave that sent temperatures soaring to summer-like levels across the eastern two-thirds of the country, March was officially the warmest such month in historyin history for the Lower 48 states, the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) announced Monday.… Read More
The United States has many areas where geological formations are likely to be suitable for long-term carbon dioxide storage
