Burning household rubbish in giant incinerators to make electricity is now the dirtiest way the UK generates power, BBC analysis has found. Nearly half of the rubbish produced in UK homes, including increasing amounts of plastic, is now being incinerated. Scientists warn it is a “disaster for...
Skeptical Science
You could say James Guill has been running from hurricanes for his whole life. The New Orleans native was just two years old when Hurricane Katrina swallowed his city in 2005 and became the most costly hurricane in U.S. history, claiming 1,833 lives. During and after the storm, Guill’s...
Nature Climate Change
While the effects of climatic changes on migration have received widespread public and scientific attention, comparative evidence for their influence on internal migration worldwide remains scarce. Here we use census-based data from 72 countries (1960–2016) to analyse 107,840 migration flows...
‘Legacy' Forests. ‘Restoration' Logging. The New Jargon of Conservation Is Awash in Ambiguity. And Politics
In 2019, conservation activist and longtime Washington state resident Stephen Kropp did something he’d never done before: he explored a forest managed as state trust land by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources. “It was this beautiful, old stand of trees, the kind of thing you’d...
An Election for a Little-Known Agency Could Dictate the Future of Renewables in Arizona
PHOENIX - Approval of the construction of two gas power plants without public comment. Another’s expansion approved without an environmental review. New fees for homeowners with rooftop solar that the Arizona attorney general has called “discriminatory” and “unconstitutional.” Approval of an 8...
Yale Climate Connections - Agriculture
Stay in the know about climate impacts and solutions. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Yale Climate Connections Many landowners in rural parts of the southeastern U.S. have farmed on their land for decades. But as they get older and worry about their family’s future, some feel a financial...
New York Times - Climate Section
West of Sydney, Australia, lies the Blue Mountains, a range of plateaus and panoramic canyons forested with eucalyptus trees. Oil in the leaves produces a bluish haze, hence the name of the area. Twenty-five years ago, in 1999, a new NGO called Forest Trends brought together a small...
PHYS.ORG - Earth
Is there anywhere else in our solar system that could support life? An imposing NASA probe is due to lift off on Monday on a five-and-a-half-year journey to Europa, one of Jupiter's many moons, to take the first detailed step toward finding out. The Europa Clipper mission will allow the US space...
Yale Climate Connections - Weather
Stay in the know about climate impacts and solutions. Subscribe to our newsletters. Stay in the know about climate impacts and solutions. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Yale Climate Connections Hurricane activity in the Atlantic typically ramps down sharply by the time late October rolls...
A new study has shown that selective breeding can lead to a modest rise in coral heat tolerance. Led by experts at Newcastle University's Coralassist Lab, the study documents the world's first effort to selectively breed adult corals for enhanced heat tolerance, i.e. the ability of adult corals...
If one single thing about the election keeps state environmental regulators up at night, it’s how much a Trump victory would impact their ability to cut transportation emissions. As it turns out, Trump’s leverage would be reduced, ironically enough, because his conservative Supreme Court...
Yale Climate Connections - Ecosystems
Stay in the know about climate impacts and solutions. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Yale Climate Connections In the Western U.S., small mesh cages adorn the towering whitebark pines that dot high-elevation landscapes. The cages have been placed around the trees’ pine cones to protect their...
Have there been other years where multiple hurricanes hit Florida? That is one of the questions I am now getting. The answer is yes: in 2004, for instance. The summer of 2004 was when four hurricanes made landfall in Florida, and the question was whether there was a human global warming role in...
In a few hours, a spacecraft should blast-off from Florida on the hunt for signs of alien life. Its destination is Europa, a deeply mysterious moon orbiting the distant planet Jupiter. Trapped under its icy surface could be a vast ocean with double the amount of water on Earth. The Europa...
Canopy structure regulates autumn phenology by mediating the microclimate in temperate forests
Autumn phenology plays a critical role in shaping the carbon sequestration capacity of temperate forests. Notable local-scale variations in autumn phenology have drawn increasing attention recently, potentially introducing substantial uncertainty when predicting temperate forest productivity....
Thanks to our increasing the efficiency of Earth's insulating blanket of greenhouse gases, we're having an affect on all features of the weather we experience. Unless we're to be mystified, surprised and needlessly harmed by bad weather we've added to our annual odds, it's important that we be...
PHYS.ORG - Technology
Amazon is bolstering its e-commerce empire while continuing a march deeper into people's lives, from robots to health care and entertainment. Innovations unveiled in recent days by the Seattle-based tech titan included a delivery van computer system to shave time off deliveries by its...
Even amid what seems like a never-ending series of deadly and destructive climate extremes across the country, including heat waves in the Southwest, wildfires in California and hurricanes and flooding in the Southeast, social and political scientists say climate is still not a major issue for...
At least eight people died after heavy rains in Brazil, authorities said Saturday, as storms swept parts of the country following a severe drought that fueled a record wave of wildfires. Central and southeastern Brazil have been pounded since Friday by winds reaching 62 miles (100 kilometers)...