On a 95-degree day this summer, New York City’s Third Avenue Bridge, which connects the Bronx and Manhattan, remained open for hours. As heat and flooding scorched the Midwest, a steel railroad bridge connecting Iowa to South Dakota collapsed under surging water. In Lewiston, Maine, a bridge was closed after the pavement buckled from the… Read More »
Sadly, the JOIDES Resolution, also known as JR, may have set sail for the last time. It docked in Amsterdam on August 2, 2024, with no clear path to raise the $72 million per year needed to operate the ship. Most of that funding comes from the US National Science Foundation, which announced in 2023… Read More »
LAS VEGAS — On a sun-scorched stretch of West Charleston Boulevard, Norm Schilling pulled his truck over to the side of the road to visit his favorite tree. Schilling, a local gardener who runs a landscaping company and owns a garden shop called Mojave Bloom Nursery, saved this African sumac decades after its branches froze… Read More »
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Climate change is wreaking havoc on the rainforests where the delicate cocoa beans grow, but cocoa lovers need not despair, say companies exploring other ways to grow cocoa or develop cocoa substitutes. Scientists and entrepreneurs are working on ways to produce more cocoa, with distribution extending well beyond the tropics… Read More »
Climate change has been in the news for more than 40 years. It’s often framed as a scientific or political issue. But social scientists like me have discovered that it’s not graphs, charts, or visuals that drive people to push for broad, collective change—it’s emotions and values. Polls confirm that a majority of Americans now… Read More »
NUKU’ALOFA, Tonga (AP) — Stressing that seas are rising rapidly, especially in the more vulnerable Pacific island nations, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has issued another climate SOS to the world. This time, he said the initials mean “save our seas.” The United Nations and the World Meteorological Organization released reports Monday on worsening sea-level… Read More »
As humans change the planet’s climate and ecosystems, scientists are looking to Earth’s history to help predict what will come out of climate change. To that end, massive ice structures like glaciers serve as nature’s freezers, archiving detailed records of past climates and ecosystems, including viruses. We are a team of microbiologists and paleoclimatologists who… Read More »
More and more disease-carrying insects from Europe are crossing the Channel into the UK due to climate change, government scientists have warned. Once only able to survive in the warmer climates of the Mediterranean or further south, the insects now migrate to northern Europe, where they are then blown across the Channel on the wind… Read More »
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica via email. Or follow us on Google News! Climate activists like us are informed that the world needs to transition to clean energy sources. As systemic change occurs, we are confident that renewable energy will provide us with abundant clean power. But the concept of a sustainable… Read More »
WASHINGTON (AP) — To understand what really works as countries try to combat climate change, researchers examined 1,500 ways countries have tried to reduce heat-trapping gases. Their answer: Many have failed. And success often means someone has to pay a price, whether at the gas station or elsewhere. According to a new study published Thursday… Read More »