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 [...]
Ice Dam Bursts Threaten to Increase Sunny Day Floods as Hotter Temperatures Melt Glaciers Scientists say meltwater flooding will increase as the ice continues to retreat, but will eventually stop—when all the ice is melted and the glaciers [...]
Warming Trends: Global Warming Means Happier Rattlesnakes, What the Future Holds for Yellowstone and Fire Experts Plead for a Quieter Fourth A column highlighting climate-related studies, innovations, books, cultural events and other developments from the global warming frontier. [...]
