Human activity influencing global rainfall, study finds Anthropogenic warming of climate has been a factor in extreme precipitation events globally, researchers say By Charlotte Burton - July 7, 2021 A car in a flooded portion [...]
Cop26: young people to interview ministers on stage, government says Global summit to be held in Glasgow in November will be ‘most inclusive’ ever, says spokesperson By Helena Horton- July 7, 2021 A giant [...]
Analysts dissect historic Pacific Northwest ‘heat dome’ Record-breaking consecutive 100-degree-plus days left the region staggering and leaves it to experts to explain the phenomenon and prospects for more of the same in coming years. BY PETER SINCLAIR - [...]
Czech Extreme Weather Fatalities Study Finds “Statistically Significant Falling Trend”…Most Related To Cold! By P Gosselin - July 6 2021 A study of Czech extreme weather fatalities show that the trend has been “significantly falling”. [...]
Forests of the Living Dead The highly engineered rivers that sustain California cities and farms upset streamside woodlands’ relationship with groundwater, a new study finds, jeopardizing their future in a changing climate. By Liza Gross - July 6, 2021 [...]
Two Years After a Huge Refinery Fire in Philadelphia, a New Day Has Come for its Long-Suffering Neighbors The petroleum smell is gone, the benzene emissions are being monitored and residents in nearby neighborhoods of color feel they’re [...]
In Corpus Christi’s Hillcrest Neighborhood, Black Residents Feel Like They Are Living in a ‘Sacrifice Zone’ Boxed in by refineries, oil tanks, an interstate highway and a bridge under construction, the people are left in a hollowed-out neighborhood [...]
Rolling blackouts hit parts of U.S. Northwest amid heat wave By Gene Johnson, Associated Press and Nicholas K. Geranios - Jun 29, 2021 The unprecedented Northwest U.S. heat wave that slammed Seattle and Portland, Oregon, moved inland [...]
Climate change is ‘fundamentally’ altering Yellowstone’s ecosystem By Adam Popescu – Jun 30, 2021 In 1872, when Yellowstone was designated as the first national park in the United States, Congress decreed that it be [...]
Sporadic Environmental Voters Hold the Power to Shift Elections and Turn Red States Blue A new report from the Environmental Voter Project claims to have identified a hidden voting bloc in nine states: low-propensity environmental voters. By Sam Palca, James [...]
