Science
Q&A: What an Author’s Trip to the Antarctic Taught Her About Climate—and Collective Action
From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by host Steve Curwood with Elizabeth Rush, author of “The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth.” The so-called “doomsday” glacier in Antarctica known as Thwaites holds enough ice that its melting could raise sea levels worldwide by […]
Read MoreConverging Climate Risks Interact to Cause More Harm, Hitting Disadvantaged Californians Hardest
“The future happens in California first” long referred to the state’s reputation as an environmental leader. It’s come to describe the Golden State’s front row seat to a rotating list of overlapping extreme events that are appearing with ever more frequency and ferocity as the climate warms. Now new research suggests that being on the […]
Read MoreAfter Another Year of Record-Breaking Heat, a Heightened Focus on Public Health
He noticed the light-headedness first. Then there was stifling heat, which made everything seem to be moving in slow motion. And by the time Oscar Rodriguez, a bricklayer from Cypress, Texas, was able to find shelter under an air conditioner during a triple-digit degree day last summer, he realized that he may have just escaped […]
Read MoreClimate change has killed 4 million people since 2000 — and that’s an underestimate
“Nobody is counting it, and nobody is moving in the direction of counting it.”
Read MoreIn Oregon, a New Program Is Training Burn Bosses to Help Put More “Good Fire” on the Ground
In July 2021, the massive Bootleg fire in southern Oregon burned 650 square miles and left vast swaths of forest littered with dead trees. But when the smoke cleared, scientists discovered that forests treated with prescribed burns—blazes intentionally set by firefighters and foresters to reduce the flammable vegetation available to feed big fires—had largely survived […]
Read MoreWith the World Stumbling Past 1.5 Degrees of Warming, Scientists Warn Climate Shocks Could Trigger Unrest and Authoritarian Backlash
As Earth’s annual average temperature pushes against the 1.5 degree Celsius limit beyond which climatologists expect the impacts of global warming to intensify, social scientists warn that humanity may be about to sleepwalk into a dangerous new era in human history. Research shows the increasing climate shocks could trigger more social unrest and authoritarian, nationalist […]
Read MoreQ&A: How YouTube Climate Denialism Is Morphing
From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by host Steve Curwood and with Imran Ahmed, the CEO and founder of the Center for Countering Digital Hate. It has been edited for length and clarity. Climate science has been under attack for decades. But some climate deniers are no […]
Read More1 year after the toxic train derailment, is East Palestine safe? Depends on whom you ask.
“We are truly the canaries in the coal mine.”
Read MoreThe surprising biodiversity of abandoned coal mines
“We’re increasingly finding that it’s not true that these are just ecological voids where nothing is living there.”
Read MoreUSFWS Is Creating a Frozen Library of Biodiversity to Help Endangered Species
The world’s wildlife are facing a barrage of threats caused by climate change, from the loss of suitable habitat to dwindling food supplies. As a result, endangered species across the U.S. are edging closer to extinction at alarming rates—and if they disappear, critical genetic information could vanish with them. In a new initiative announced on […]
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