GLOBAL WARMING TREND WARMS THE U.S. WEST, LEAVES EAST SHIVERING...
Boston's recent snowstorms have been part of a U.S. trend of cold winters in the East, record warm in the West. Credit: Getty Images
Weather dichotomy, which leaves two halves of the U.S. in opposite extremes, is a trend tied to climate change, new study says...
Read moreMASSIVE 100 FOOT THICK GLACIER TONGUE COLLAPSES AND COVERS 4 SQUARE MILES WITH ROCK AND ICE...
Himalayan ice cap from space. credit: NASA
One of the worlds largest ice avalanches ever recorded has flummoxed glaciologists. The slide contained about 100 million cubic metres of ice and rocks as it roared down a narrow valley killing nine herders and hundreds of sheep and yaks...
Read moreSEA LEVEL RISE IN COASTAL BANGLADESH...
Kukumoni Munda, a resident of Koyra number 6, a coastal hamlet bordering the Sundarbans in southwestern Bangladesh, walks more than half a mile each day to fetch saline drinking water from a pond. "Fresh water costs 10 taka a day. I cannot afford it," she says. Image by Nikita Sampath. Bangladesh, 2016
In Koyra number 6, a coastal hamlet bordering the Sundarbans in southwestern Bangladesh, a group of men unload barrels of water from their trawlers—50 drums holding 30 liters each. They announce their arrival by yelling. And word spreads. This is how this village gets their daily drink of water, from a town 15 kilometers (approx. 9 miles) away...
Read moreTHE EARTH JUST PASSED A MAJOR CLIMATE MILESTONE...
The Mauna Loa Observatory atmospheric research facility has been measuring atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide since the 1950s. CREDIT: AP Photo/Chris Stewart
There’s no going back from this one...
Read moreWE JUST MIGHT HAVE A REAL CLIMATE DEBATE IN THIS ELECTION. THAT’S BAD NEWS FOR TRUMP...
During the first Clinton-Trump presidential debate on Sept. 26, Hillary Clinton accused Trump of believing that "climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese," and Trump interrupted to object. (The Washington Post)
Those who closely follow the problem of climate change are used to being disappointed by U.S. political campaigns and elections. After all, here is this massive global problem that, it seems, continually fails to gain major traction. Much of the country still denies it, non-science journalists seem afraid of it, and candidates have often not wanted to touch it. It notoriously did not come up in any of the 2012 presidential debates...
Read moreU.S. ELECTIONS ARE A PIVOTAL MOMENT FOR CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY...
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Dean Scott, the senior climate change reporter for Bloomberg, moderated a panel discussion this weekend at the 2016 conference of the Society of Environmental Journalists. The topic at hand was the upcoming U.S. elections and what it means for climate change policy, particularly if Donald Trump wins the presidency...
Read moreFEAR OF POLAR VORTEX REPEAT LIFTS U.S. NATGAS FROM DOLDRUMS...
A man is silhouetted against the arctic sea smoke rising off Lake Michigan in Chicago, Illinois January 6, 2014. REUTERS/Jim Young
Fears that the coming winter will be as brutal as the polar vortex of two years ago has started a scramble in markets for natural gas, driving the primary U.S. heating fuel's price to 16-month highs...
Read moreTRUMP DENIED HE'S A CLIMATE DENIER AT THE FIRST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE...
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, left, stands with Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton before the first presidential debate at Hofstra University, Monday, Sept. 26, 2016. Image: Evan vucci/AP
After being totally ignored during the 2012 presidential debates, climate change was finally addressed on Monday night when Republican nominee Donald Trump squared off in his first debate against Democrat Hillary Clinton...
Read moreTRUMP’S NEW HEAD OF EPA TRANSITION SAID GLOBAL WARMING IS ‘NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT’...
Add your reaction ShareTERNS FOLLOW RECORD WARM TEMPERATURES IN 'SHOCK' MIGRATION TO NORTH OF ALASKA...
A Caspian tern flies over the Sonny Bono Salton Sea national wildlife refuge near Calipatria, California. Photograph: David McNew/Getty Images
Researchers on north-west coast of Alaska startled to discover Caspian terns 1,000 miles farther north than species had been previously recorded...
Read moreA GIANT LAKE THAT SUSTAINS MILLIONS OF PEOPLE IS IN DANGER...
A store on Tonle Sap in Cambodia. (Photo: Erica Gies)
Dams, overfishing, and pollution threaten Cambodia's Tonle Sap, the largest lake in Southeast Asia and one of the world's most productive fisheries...
Read moreTHE MADHOUSE EFFECT OF CLIMATE DENIAL...
The Madhouse Effect cover. Photograph: Columbia University Press
A new book by Mann and Toles explores climate science and denial with clarity and humor...
Read morePRESIDENT OBAMA WILL MEET WITH LEONARDO DICAPRIO TO TALK CLIMATE CHANGE...
Their discussion will be followed by the debut screening of DiCaprio’s National Geographic documentary Before the Flood...
Read moreTOXIC ALGAL BLOOM EXPLODES IN CHESAPEAKE BAY THIS SUMMER...
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Read moreWHITE HOUSE, GOOGLE, AMAZON, LAUNCH BIG DATA TOOL TO HELP COMPANIES’ CLIMATE RESILIENCE PLANNING...
Big data gives environmental and resource managers an invaluable tool to increase efficiencies and better manage risk...
Read moreRECALCULATING THE CLIMATE MATH...
Illustration by Neil Webb
The numbers on global warming are even scarier than we thought...
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