It’s morning and you wake on a comfortable foam mattress made partly from greenhouse gas. You pull on a T-shirt and sneakers containing carbon dioxide pulled from factory emissions. After ...
Even in a world increasingly battered by weather extremes, the summer 2021 heat wave in the Pacific Northwest stood out. For several days in late June, cities such as Vancouver, ...
Under a midday summer sun in California’s Sacramento Valley, rice farmer Peter Rystrom walks across a dusty, barren plot of land, parched soil crunching beneath each step. In a typical ...
As temperatures rise, violence and aggression also go up while focus and productivity decline Intense heat can affect human behavior, from making it hard to focus to prompting aggression. One ...
Between a death and a burial was hardly the best time to show up in a remote village in Madagascar to make a pitch for forest protection. Bad timing, however, ...
Maxwell Ochoo’s first attempt at farming was a dismal failure. In Ochieng Odiere, a village near the shores of Kenya’s Lake Victoria, “getting a job is a challenge,” the 34-year-old ...
Trees are symbols of hope, life and transformation. They’re also increasingly touted as a straightforward, relatively inexpensive, ready-for-prime-time solution to climate change. When it comes to removing human-caused emissions of ...
Klimaatwetenschapper Michael Mann stelt dat regelrechte ontkenning is veranderd in inactivisme De regelrechte ontkenning van klimaatverandering maakt plaats voor subtielere pogingen om maatregelen om de uitstoot van fossiele brandstoffen te ...
The month of August alone has brought hurricanes, wildfires and a derecho Two natural disasters raged on either side of the United States on August 25: hundreds of wildfires in ...
A decade ago, climate change projections pointed to a distant future, 50 or 100 years down the road. But with each storm and fire season seemingly more ferocious than the ...
