Washington Post - Climate and Environment
Days with dangerous heat Heat index ≥100°F > 90 days 0 35 70 2023 2053 Days with dangerous heat Heat index ≥100°F 0 >90 days 35 70 2023 2053 Days with dangerous heat Heat index ≥100°F 0 35 70 >90 days 2023 2053 Wash. Mont. N.D. Maine Minn. Ore. Vt. Idaho N.H. Mass. N.Y. S.D....
Manuel Escutia was the first firefighter to set eyes on the blaze that consumed 14,000 hectares of southern France in July. When he saw it, from his perch 40m (131ft) above the forest, it was a small cloud of black smoke rising from the trees about 5km away. Escutia had just done a circuit of...
PHYS.ORG - Earth
Rick LaBrode has worked at NASA for 37 years, but he says the American quest to return to the Moon is by far the crowning moment of his career. LaBrode is the lead flight director for Artemis 1, set to take off later this month - the first time a capsule that can carry humans will be sent to the...
Banks along parts of the Colorado River where water once streamed are now just caked mud and rock as climate change makes the Western U.S. hotter and drier. More than two decades of drought have done little to deter the region from diverting more water than flows through it, depleting key...
Skeptical Science
Often described as a giant tower of Jenga blocks, Boston University’s Center for Computing and Data Sciences shows no outward signs of leading the race to sustainable energy design. No rooftop wind turbines grace its heights; no solar panels are mounted on the multiple roof decks jutting...
Scientific American - Climate
Digital & 4-Year Archive Hybridization isn’t as rare as you think, and it’s a tactic some animals can use to weather global warming Every middle-school student learns the dogma: a species is defined as a group of organisms that interbreed and produce fertile young. When individual...
New York Times - Climate Section
Southern California residents are beginning to accept that lush lawns are unsustainable when reservoirs and rivers run low in a drought era. Erin Brockovich’s artificial turf next to her neighbor’s real grass.Credit...Mark Abramson for The New York Times AGOURA HILLS, Calif. - Erin Brockovich...
Open Air (Carbon Capture)
Janine offers insights and well-deserved praise for BASALT, the extraordinary, ready-to-go geological storage option sitting right under the world's feet.\n\nProduced by OpenAir - https://openaircollective.cc/\n\nPick up your own I [ ] Basalt t-shirt (designed by OpenAir member Chris Donnelly)...
Americans are less concerned now about how climate change might impact them personally - and about how their personal choices affect the climate - than they were three years ago, a new poll shows, even as a wide majority still believe climate change is happening. The June Associated Press-NORC...
Vermont farmer Brian Kemp is used to seeing the pastures at Mountain Meadows Farm grow slower in the hot, late summer, but this year the grass is at a standstill. That's "very nerve-wracking" when you're grazing 600 to 700 cattle, said Kemp, who manages an organic beef farm in Sudbury. He...
After four inconclusive sessions, UN member states on Monday resume talks aimed at finally completing a treaty to protect the world's high seas, a vital yet fragile resource that covers nearly half the planet. A host of NGOs and affected countries say the pact is urgently needed to improve...
World leaders will meet at the UN in New York later for more talks to save the world's oceans from overexploitation. The UN High Seas Treaty has been through 10 years of negotiations but has yet to be signed. If agreed, it would put 30% of the world's oceans into conservation areas by...
This video can not be played In 2015, about 10% of Australia's vast mangrove forests in the Gulf of Carpentaria mysteriously died. Scientists have now figured out the cause - and warn the forests may struggle to recover in a changing climate. Video by Isabelle Rodd How 40 million Australian...
This video can not be played Homes were destroyed, trains delayed and flights cancelled as Tropical Storm Meari swept over parts of central Japan. Aerial footage showed the extent of the damage to community infrastructure - which prompted a major clean-up operation. Some areas saw 50% more rain...
• There have been 745 wildfires in the UK so far this year - up from 247 in the whole of 2021 • Fire chief Mark Hardingham told the BBC there had been 150 large fires in the last week alone • A wildfire is classified as being large enough to cover an area the size of at least two-and-a-half...
A rare purple heron has been spotted by a birdwatcher at a Derbyshire nature reserve. Ian Elliott said he was "chuffed to bits" to see the juvenile bird at Willington Wetlands on Thursday evening. The RSPB said purple herons were usually sighted in southern Europe and some parts of northern...
Text and photographs by Joel Gunterin Gironde, France Hervé Trentin, a 34-year veteran of the Gironde fire department, stood on the edge of a charred section of forest wiping tears from his cheeks. It was the second time he had cried that morning. "I'm sorry," he said, composing himself....
Climate Crocks
Can’t say we weren’t warned. Yeah – seems a spot on warning report (all for thruppence or 10 shillings a year), though not a big audience in those rural parts of N.Z , so one hundred and ten years later on we are beginning to realize that those early warning were close to the...
The following articles sparked above average interest during the week (bolded articles are from SkS authors): Electrifying transportation reduces emissions AND saves massive amounts of energy, The things we take for granted, Why the climate change deniers’ argument that “CO2 is...
Just Have A Think
Electric vehicles are rapidly growing in popularity as the number of different options has increased dramatically over the last couple of years and prices are beginning to move towards parity with internal combustion engine cars. But once all the carbon costs of extracting, processing and...