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Rat-related callouts rise as experts say warming temperatures are helping New York’s rats feed and mate longer into the year
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Ice loss in the Antarctic has tripled in just the last decade alone, and is currently losing 219 billion metric tons of ice annually. That number is up from 73 billion metric tons per year as of a decade ago.
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Amid all the sobering stories and projections about climate change in the news lately, we have some upbeat news to share. Our hard work is having a BIG impact.
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“You have to think 10, 20, 30, and 100 years ahead. And nobody budgets or plans for that.”
read moreAgriculture is a big climate p...
Farmers need to act immediately, he pointed out, if the world hopes to stay below 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) of average global temperature rise — the threshold where some of the worst effects of climate change start to present themselves.
read moreA moral test at climate summit...
The Paris Agreement was forged in a spirit of unified commitment. Now world leaders must determine how to quantify the obligation to aid developing nations in an energy transition.
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There’s a new term for all the work needed to prepare coasts and cities for the consequences of climate change, and it’s blissfully free of the words “climate change.”
read moreAIA Issues Climate Change Call...
AIA President Carl Elefante issued a letter today stating, “As architects, we have unique skills to explain the challenge to a wide audience, and the design knowledge to find more ways to reduce building emissions … But we must not wait.”
read moreAn Upheaval at the Ends of the...
Two new reports find that the North and South Poles face an “unprecedented” climate future.
read moreThe Planet Has Seen Sudden War...
In some ways, the planet’s worst mass extinction — 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian Period — may parallel climate change today.
read moreDemonstrators at UN Climate Su...
Thousands of climate activists marched here in Katowice, Poland, on Saturday, calling for world leaders to do more to keep rising greenhouse gas emissions in check. It was the only permitted protest during the 2-week UN climate talks.
read moreA Natural Path for U.S. Climat...
The country could mitigate a fifth of its carbon emissions through natural solutions.
read moreHow Climate Change Is Challeng...
Experts say mounting environmental pressures will make people sicker, and that the health-care system will play a major role in averting disaster.
read moreThis Badass 15-Year-Old Just S...
Our leaders are behaving like children,” she told the UN summit.
read moreThe Democratic Party Wants to ...
After years of infighting, the Democrats may finally have found an environmental consensus in the Green New Deal.
read moreIn the Face of Extinction, We ...
Researching and writing about the impacts of runaway climate change, as I’ve been doing now for too many years, I’ve watched several patterns recur.
read moreAn Unthinkable, Inevitable Res...
Resilient design can’t save every human settlement from wildfires, drought, flooding, and other anthropogenic natural disasters. In some cases, we will have to consider retreat.
read moreOceans Highlighted in Dire Whi...
Last week, the White House released the Fourth National Climate Assessment, a dire warning on climate change risks and impacts across the U.S.
read moreThe Elders demand urgent clima...
G20 countries must take decisive, long-overdue action to cut emissions and end fossil fuel subsidies to avoid irreversible climate catastrophe.
read moreWe broke down what climate cha...
Yeah, we read each chapter of the report so you don’t have to.
read moreCOP24: Nationalism and the cha...
At a world gathering on climate change this weekend, nations will face a key political test: whether they can transcend the narrowness of nationalism in favor of cooperation. All eyes will be on the US and China.
read moreKnowledge, Ignorance and Clima...
Philosophers have been talking about skepticism for a long time. Some of those insights can shed light on our public discourse regarding climate change.
read moreIn a massive new report, feder...
In a massive new report, federal scientists contradict President Trump and assert that climate change is an intensifying danger to the United States. Too bad it came out on a holiday.
read moreNYC plans to cut its biggest s...
New York City, already a relatively sustainable town, could reach new green heights if a certain city lawmaker has his way.
read moreTribes risk exploitation when ...
The trash and toxic runoff are bad enough. They are killing off the tribe’s local fish population and medicinal plants.
read moreClimate change on track to mak...
Insurance giant IAG has warned a failure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions could result in a world that is “pretty much uninsurable”, with poorer communities likely to bear the brunt of the effects.
read moreThe bizarre and frightening co...
The Camp Fire, which destroyed the town of Paradise, is now the most destructive to ever hit California and the deadliest wildfire in modern American history.
read moreYour Children’s Yellowstone Wi...
In Yellowstone National Park, warming has brought rapid changes.
Winters are shorter. Less snow is falling.
Summers are hotter and drier.
In a few decades, this iconic American landscape will not be the same
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