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Seven ways climate change is already hitting Texans – The Texas Tribune
Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. For decades, scientists warned that human-induced climate change could put communities in danger around the world. More intense climate and weather events...
Climate change set four records in 2021, U.S. says – NBC News
Four key measures of climate change hit record highs last year, the United Nations said Wednesday. Greenhouse gas concentrations, sea level rise, ocean temperatures and ocean acidification all hit their highest recorded levels in 2021, leading to “harmful and...
Climate change is putting our health at risk – WUSA9.com
The data is clear: Climate change is posing a greater threat to our health than ever before. WASHINGTON — Sitting in his pediatrician's office, Mickey Carlisle gets checked by Dr. Samantha Ahdoot. "You're so much healthier than you were. Last week, you did not feel...
Fight Brews Over Cost of SEC Climate-Change Rules – The Wall Street Journal
The cost of proposed rules on climate disclosure is emerging as a key battleground as businesses and politicians fight over a plan to require companies to tally their impact on the environment and the risks they face from climate change. The Securities and Exchange...
The Monday After: Getting historical perspective on climate change – Canton Repository
Climate change has been one of the most debated environmental issues in the world during recent years.In Canton it isn't a new discussion.Articles about the changing climate have been printed on pages of The Canton Repository for nearly its entire history, stretching...
‘This is our forest’: Climate change means uncertain future for maple trees, syrup season – USA TODAY
For centuries, the Abenaki people of the northeastern U.S. and Canada looked at maple sap as a gift from their creator, arriving at a time just before spring when their ancestors' food reserves were low. But the sweet, amber syrup and the people who produce it today...
A lifetime of climate change – Knowable Magazine
Researcher Arun Agrawal has lived three decades on either side of a watershed: the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, signed 30 years ago this June. His 60 years are a window into how far we have come, and how far there is to go.Arun Agrawal...
NASA’s Cynthia Rosenzweig Receives 2022 World Food Prize
By Sofie Bates, NASA’s Earth Science News Team In Brief: A NASA climate researcher has received the 2022 World Food Prize, comparable to a Nobel Prize for food and agriculture. Cynthia Rosenzweig, a senior research scientist and head of the Climate Impacts Group...
How much plastic do you use in a week?
Nadiya Catel-Arutyunova, Sustainability Policy Advisor at the British Retail Consortium, told BBC News: "Retailers have been committed to removing single-use packaging for some time. Many have signed up to the Plastics Pact, working with suppliers to eliminate...
NASA’s ECOSTRESS Detects ‘Heat Islands’ in Extreme Indian Heat Wave
In Brief: The instrument aboard the space station documents blistering temperatures in urban areas around Delhi during the historic heat wave on the Indian subcontinent. A relentless heat wave has blanketed India and Pakistan since mid-March, causing dozens of deaths,...
International Satellite to Track Impacts of Small Ocean Currents
In Brief: The Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission will explore how the ocean absorbs atmospheric heat and carbon, moderating global temperatures and climate change. Though climate change is driving sea level rise over time, researchers also believe that...
Climate Change: Explained – Space.com
Climate change is the long-term, continued shifting of temperatures and weather patterns on planet Earth; an evolution driven by human activities. In the over 4.5 billion years that Earth has existed, orbiting the sun in the small stellar neighborhood we call home,...