A Climate-Smart Farm Bill Can Save Lives
In August 2017, as wildfires raged across British Columbia, a blanket of smoke settled over the neighboring state of Washington, turning the sun blood-red and filling the air with grit and ash.
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East Africa Drought Impossible Without Climate Change
Climate change makes droughts like that currently devastating East Africa at least 100 times more likely and the catastrophic humanitarian crisis there would not have happened without climate change, a new report
Meals on Wheels Is a Climate-Relief Model
When an unprecedented heat wave bore down on Portland, Oregon, in June 2021, Jonna Papaefthimiou, the city’s chief resilience officer, immediately thought of the city’s most vulnerable populations: older people sweltering, often
Record-Breaking Year of Climate Chaos in ’22
Last year's climate-fueled disasters really were that bad, the UN World Meteorological Organization confirmed this morning. The concurrent droughts, flooding, heat, and wildfires and the knock-on effects they cause, all represent the
Ice Sheet and Glacier Melt has Global Impacts
Rapidly melting ice sheets at the Earth's poles and atop its mountain ranges has drastic local and far-flung impacts — all exacerbated by climate change — an interactive NPR series illustrates. Feedback
Lake Tulare Refills
Before it was drained in the mid-20th century, Lake Tulare (too-LAIR-ee) in California's Central Valley was the largest body of fresh water west of the Mississippi. Now, an onslaught of atmospheric rivers
Somalia Drought Drags On
Approximately 43,000 people died in Somalia last year — about half of whom were children under 5 years old — as the region endured its sixth straight failed rainy season. As many
Online Activism Rises As Biden Sued
Biden’s approval of a huge oil development in northern Alaska caused rise in online activism among environmentalists, who filed a legal challenge against the decision in the U.S. District Court for the
Potential for Dangerous California Flooding
A "pretty epic" amount of snow has fallen on California this year, but an atmospheric river bringing heavy rain from the Pacific is threatening to set off major flooding. “We’re going to
Water Rights System Built on ‘Racism and Violence’
Mass amounts of precipitation across what is now the Western United States have eased the worst megadrought in more than a millennium, but that snow and rain has largely missed central Oregon,
Restaurants Hurt By Methane Gas Prices
Skyrocketed methane gas prices are pushing some California restaurants to the brink of closure, the LA Times reports, even as the gas industry uses restaurants to fight stove regulations. While methane gas
Summer Floods Still Plague Pakistan
The floodwaters that submerged nearly one-third of Pakistan last summer and killed more than 1,700 people have still not entirely receded, leaving many feeling abandoned in inadequate camps, The Guardian Reports. “There
Seconds Closer to Midnight
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists set its Doomsday Clock to 90 seconds to midnight on Tuesday — the closest the metaphoric clock has ever been to the apocalyptic hour. Originally conceived as
Can We Game Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis?
Europe is planting trees to offset its emissions but is swiftly hit with massive wildfires. The United States is investing in mining operations abroad to wean off its dependence on fossil fuels
They Were Pregnant During a Climate Disaster. Do Their Children Carry the Scars?
When Superstorm Sandy hit in October 2012, Celia Sporer-Newman was about eight months pregnant and working full-time as a paramedic in Queens, New York. Sporer-Newman had worked through previous disasters, including Hurricane
People With Disabilities Are Far Worse Off After Disasters
People with disabilities are disproportionately more likely to suffer major hardship because of extreme weather disasters and are far less likely to return home afterward, new Census Bureau data released Thursday shows.
Doulas Are Frontline Climate Workers
As Hurricane Ian approached southern Florida in late September, Tifanny Burks got a call from a recent client. A single mother of three, including an infant Burks had helped deliver, was facing
Report Card Warns of Arctic Destabilization
This year was especially volatile for the Arctic, as climate change — sometimes literally — destabilizes the region, according to NOAA's 2022 Arctic Report Card, released Tuesday. The past seven years have
Knowing Your Neighbors Could Save You From the Next Climate Disaster
When Winter Storm Uri hit Texas in February 2021, bringing single-digit temperatures and sheets of snow to Dallas, Susana Edith and a group of volunteers distributed lentil soup and winter gear to
North Port St. Joe, Florida, Worried About New LNG Plant
Residents of Port St. Joe, Florida, worry a proposed LNG export terminal will do little but continue a legacy of polluting industry in the predominantly Black part of town north of the