In the Upper Valley region straddling southern Vermont and New Hampshire, the Brazil family has been working with Kasia Butterworth, a realtor with Coldwell Banker, to find a house to buy. Butterworth said climate concerns have added to a pandemic-driven … Read more
WORLD VIEW 28 February 2022 Governments must focus on solutions that are already working, even when they aren’t glamorous or supported by powerful lobbyists. Marie Claire Brisbois 0 Marie Claire Brisbois Marie Claire Brisbois is senior lecturer in the Science … Read more
A comprehensive new United Nations-sponsored assessment of climate change finds that global warming is reshaping the world more rapidly and severely than was known several years ago. Why it matters: The report finds that climate change is affecting every person’s … Read more
[This is a transcript of the video embedded below. Some of the explanations may not make sense without the animations in the video.] [embedded content] The politics of climate change receives a lot of coverage. The science, not so much. … Read more
Nov 8th 2021 DENVER THE DIABLO CANYON nuclear power plant lies about 200 miles north of Los Angeles on California’s central coast. Its twin reactors sit between the Pacific Ocean on one side and emerald hills on the other. The … Read more
Aug 28th 2021 TOM EISENHAUER remembers driving through Manitoba, a province in central Canada, more than a decade ago. Surrounding his car were fields of cold-weather crops, such as wheat, peas and canola (rape). Dense staples such as maize (corn) … Read more
“If you look at it from an objective standpoint, the industry is improving, they are improving the leaks, they are improving the number of incidents, but it’s not quick enough,” said Arnel Santos, a 25-year oil industry veteran with Shell … Read more
Echoing the scientists’ findings, UN Secretary General António Guterres said: “If we combine forces now, we can avert climate catastrophe. But, as today’s report makes clear, there is no time for delay and no room for excuses. I count on … Read more
Thousands of scientists reiterated calls for immediate action over the climate crisis in an article published Wednesday in the journal BioScience. “The extreme climate events and patterns that we’ve witnessed over the last several years — not to mention the … Read more
Previous periods of rapid warming millions of years ago drastically altered plants and forests on Earth. Now, scientists see the beginnings of a more sudden, disruptive rearrangement of the world’s flora — a trend that will intensify if greenhouse gas … Read more