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What Scalia's Death Means For Climate Change
Jan 31, 2016
What Scalia's Death Means For Climate Change
Just days after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling clouded the future of a new United Nations climate pact, the passing of one of its justices has boosted the pact's chances of succeeding. Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia died at a resort in Texas on Saturday. Scalia, 79, was the court's...
As the World Tackles Climate Change, is Meat Off the Table? (Op-Ed)
Dec 31, 2015
As the World Tackles Climate Change, is Meat Off the Table? (Op-Ed)
Alexandra Clark is a sustainable-food campaigner at Humane Society International. She recently presented HSI's meat reduction work at the COP21 in Paris. Prior to joining HSI, Clark worked for the vice president of the European Parliament and was responsible for a number of high-profile parliamentary initiatives on sustainable food systems....
2017 Is Slated to Be in Top 3 Hottest Years of All Time
Oct 31, 2017
2017 Is Slated to Be in Top 3 Hottest Years of All Time
The year isn't over yet, but 2017 is already expected to be the second- or third-hottest year on record, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) announced today (Nov. 6) at the United Nations climate change conference in Bonn, Germany. From January to September 2017, the average global temperature was 1.98 degrees...
Human-Caused Climate Change Could Doom Coastal Cities, Neil Tyson Says
Aug 31, 2017
Human-Caused Climate Change Could Doom Coastal Cities, Neil Tyson Says
The United States might not be able to recover from climate change if extreme weather events and flooding continue to swamp the country's largest coastal cities, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson told CNN yesterday (Sept. 17). In an interview with reporter and TV host Fareed Zakaria on CNN's GPS, Tyson discussed...
Climate Change Is Driving These Cute Mountain Critters Out of Their Homes
Jul 31, 2017
Climate Change Is Driving These Cute Mountain Critters Out of Their Homes
The chirps of the American pika have gone silent in a core portion of their habitat in California. New research finds that the pika (Ochotona princeps) disappeared from a 64 square-mile (165 square kilometers) section of the Sierra Nevada mountains north of Lake Tahoe between the 1950s and the early...
Watch the Waters Rise in 'Holoscenes' Climate Art Installation
May 31, 2017
Watch the Waters Rise in 'Holoscenes' Climate Art Installation
NEW YORK — An artistic interpretation of climate change comes to Times Square for the 2017 World Science Festival, in the form of Holoscenes, an outdoor installation that places a series of human occupants in an enormous aquarium, to explore humanity's uneasy relationship with rising seas in a warming world....
Early Collapse of Arctic Sea Ice Is Another Ominous Sign of Rapid Warming
Apr 30, 2017
Early Collapse of Arctic Sea Ice Is Another Ominous Sign of Rapid Warming
Earth's already-beleaguered northern icecap suffered another blow this month with the early collapse of a barrier that kept some of Arctic's most durable ice in place. The ice arch across the Nares Strait, which separates Greenland from Ellesmere Island in Canada's far northeast, gave way two months earlier than usual,...
Last Man to Walk on the Moon Mistaken About Climate Change on Earth
Sep 30, 2018
Last Man to Walk on the Moon Mistaken About Climate Change on Earth
A former NASA astronaut who was the 12th person to walk on the moon may have seen Earth from space — but he doesn't see that human actions are shaping global climate change. Today (Oct. 15), Harrison Schmitt, a geologist who flew on the Apollo 17 mission in 1972 and...
News Clip Linked Coal to Climate Change — 106 Years Ago Today
Jul 31, 2018
News Clip Linked Coal to Climate Change — 106 Years Ago Today
A newspaper clip published Aug. 14, 1912, predicts that coal consumption would produce enough carbon dioxide to warm the climate. (Image credit: Fairfax Media/CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 NZ)A note published in a New Zealand paper 106 years ago today (Aug. 14) predicted the Earth's temperature would rise because of 7 billion...
California Logged Its Hottest Month Ever, and Things Are Only Going to Get Worse
Jul 31, 2018
California Logged Its Hottest Month Ever, and Things Are Only Going to Get Worse
As wildfires burn huge swaths of California, the month of July blazed through climate records. It was not only the hottest July in California's history, but it was also the state's hottest month ever, according to a new report issued Wednesday (Aug. 15) by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...
Climate Change Could Drastically Change Ecosystems Around the World
Jul 31, 2018
Climate Change Could Drastically Change Ecosystems Around the World
For a preview of what's to come for the Earth's ecosystems, look to the past. In a new study, an international group of researchers analyzed fossil records to track how the planet’s vegetation changed as Earth climbed out of the last ice age thousands of years ago. Then, the scientists...
Freakishly Warm Weather in the Arctic Has Climate Scientists 'Stunned'
Jan 31, 2018
Freakishly Warm Weather in the Arctic Has Climate Scientists 'Stunned'
During the Arctic winter, when the sun hides from October to March, the average temperature in the frozen north typically hovers around a bone-chilling minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 20 degrees Celsius). But this year, the Arctic is experiencing a highly unusual heat wave. On Feb. 20, the temperature in...
Greenland Lost 217 Billion Tons of Ice Last Month
Jul 31, 2019
Greenland Lost 217 Billion Tons of Ice Last Month
A staggering 217 billion tons (197 billion metric tons) of meltwater flowed off of Greenland's ice sheet into the Atlantic Ocean this July. The worst day of melting was July 31, when 11 billion tons (10 billion metric tons) of melted ice poured into the ocean. This massive thaw represents...
We'd Better Retreat from the Coasts While We Still Can, Scientists Urge Amid Climate Crisis
Jul 31, 2019
We'd Better Retreat from the Coasts While We Still Can, Scientists Urge Amid Climate Crisis
As many as 1 billion people are expected to be forced out of their homes by the droughts, floods, fires and famines associated with runaway climate change over the next 30 years — and they all have to go somewhere. This massive global exodus can go one of two ways:...
Want to Fight Climate Change? Plant 1 Trillion Trees.
Jun 30, 2019
Want to Fight Climate Change? Plant 1 Trillion Trees.
Want to help save the world from climate change? Then grab some seeds, or some seedlings, and start planting trees like there's no tomorrow. At least 1 trillion of them, and fast. That may sound like a lot of trees, but the Earth has room for their gnarled bows and...
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