Tag: Climate change, global warming
World set to ‘temporarily’ breach major climate threshold in next five years
Within the next five years, the planet is 66 percent likely to reach 2.7°F (1.5°C ) of warming according to a jarring new update from the...
Graphic warning labels might convince people to eat less meat
Americans consume billions of pounds of meat each year. And yet, there’s a plethora of research showing that copious amounts of meat can...
Communities struggling with opioid addiction have a new complication: climate disasters
This article was originally featured on High Country News. Marin Hambley was working as a groundskeeper in Chico, California,...
A remote Air Force base in Alaska is getting its own nuclear reactor
On August 31, the Air Force announced that a California company called Oklo would design, construct, own, and operate a micro nuclear...
Hotter weather could be changing baseball
As average global temperatures continue to rise, America’s pastime could be entering the “climate-ball era.” A report published April...
Mobile homes could be a surprising climate solution
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. This story was supported by the Economic...
Almost every place on Earth was affected by extreme temperatures this summer
Studies increasingly show that changing weather patterns, extreme heat, and unpredictable storms are likely to pop up pretty much...
A ‘season of simmering’: This summer’s 3-month streak was hottest ever recorded
A new report from the United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO) found that Earth just experienced its hottest series of three...
Why machines don’t work as well in extreme heat
This article is republished from The Conversation. Not only people need to stay cool, especially in a summer of record-breaking heat waves....
Maine’s puffins show another year of remarkable resiliency
For the second year in a row, the Atlantic puffins living on the rocky islands off Maine’s coast had a rebound year for fledgling chicks,...
