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 »
Read in Spanish. Southeast Michigan seemed like a perfect “climate paradise.” “My family has owned my house since the ’60s. … Even when my father was a kid and lived there, there was no flood, flood, flood, flood. Until [2021]“A Southeast Michigan resident told us that June, a storm dumped more than 6 inches of… Read More »
Nearly 40% of people in the United States live in areas with unhealthy levels of air pollution, and the country is facing a decline in clean air as the effects of climate change intensify, according to a new report from the American Lung Association. The organization’s report, its 25th annual analysis of the country’s “State… Read More »
Greece was one of the countries worst affected by forest fires that ravaged rural areas during a period of intense heat in 2023 – Getty Climate change is said to be experienced mostly through online videos; until you’re the one shooting the clip. And increasingly, we get the sense that it’s the holidaymakers who hold… Read More »
A protester from climate change group Just Stop Oil was arrested Today’s hearing in the Court of Appeals could determine the future of civil disobedience. As a number of climate activist cases reach the courts, the plea used to acquit most of those accused may soon be cut short. The argument that companies would be… Read More »
MUYNAK, Uzbekistan (AP) — Toxic dust storms, anti-government protests, the collapse of the Soviet Union — for generations, none of this deterred Nafisa Bayniyazova and her family from making a living growing melons, squash and tomatoes on surrounding farms. Aral sea. Bayniyazova, 50, has spent most of her life tending land near Muynak in northwestern… Read More »
MUYNAK, Uzbekistan (AP) — Toxic dust storms, anti-government protests, the collapse of the Soviet Union — for generations, none of this deterred Nafisa Bayniyazova and her family from making a living growing melons, squash and tomatoes on surrounding farms. Aral sea. Bayniyazova, 50, has spent most of her life tending land near Muynak in northwestern… Read More »
Forests are an important part of the Earth’s operating system. They reduce the formation of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere due to the burning of fossil fuels, deforestation and land degradation by 30% each year. This slows global temperature increases and resulting changes in climate. In the US, forests account for 12% of the… Read More »
Nearly 50 oil and gas companies worldwide have pledged to shore up leaky methane systems by 2030; It’s a move that, if companies keep their promises, could quickly reduce emissions of the potent gas and prevent some climate change impacts. The pledge, announced by Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber at the United Nations Climate Change Conference… Read More »