New Jersey and New York City dwellers were abruptly shaken Friday morning by an escalating, rumbling vibration. It was the second time this year that an earthquake struck the region, triggering panicking phone calls from Manhattan to Albany to Long Island, Montclair and Brooklyn. An earthquake is usually a foreign experience to New Yorkers, and it naturally sounded the alarms
Environmental Studies Professor Sikina Jinnah recently wrapped up almost three years of work co-chairing Harvard University’s SCoPEX Advisory Committee, one of the world’s first efforts to design and implement a governance framework for an outdoor solar geoengineering experiment.
Brazil and Colombia curbed logging in 2023, but other countries wiped out many of the gains.
How can we turn the tide of deforestation, and what role can banks play?
There are plenty of news stories about the impacts of climate change and how AI is going to change, well, everything. Less common, but no less relevant, are stories about how to meet the growing energy demands for the future. This country’s energy suppliers are predicting significant growth in the demand for electricity in the
Toni Lyn Morelli, research ecologist at the Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center and adjunct associate professor in the Department of Environmental Conservation at the University of Massachusetts, explains how milder winters in the Northeast are contributing to an explosion of deer populations, which can cause car accidents and increase Lyme disease.
Using artificial intelligence, satellite observations, and climate model projections, a team of researchers from Switzerland and Belgium calculate that for every tenth of a degree of increase in global air temperature, an average of nearly 9,000 meteorites disappear from the surface of the ice sheet. This loss has major implications, as meteorites are unique samples of extraterrestrial bodies that provide insights into the origin of life on Earth and the formation of the moon.
Woodside Energy has doubled down on its response to climate change with a warning to investors about eroding value with any drastic changes to investment plans. “We are being honest about the energy transition,” Woodside chair Richard Goyder said in a letter to shareholders on Tuesday that was issued on the ASX. In response to […]
Climate change is impacting the agriculture industry right here in Michigan, although experts say they’re doing things to make sure our state stays one track ahead of it.
Over the past 60 years, climate change has forced certain ant species, unable to tolerate higher temperatures, out of their original habitats in Gregory Canyon near Boulder, Colorado, according to a new research published April 9 in the journal Ecology.
Attorney General Ken Paxton filed suit against Harris County over the guaranteed income program offering $500 a month for 18 months to local residents.
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter The City of Wichita is continuing its water conservation rebate program this year, with a few changes. The program began in 2013 to offer rebates for residents who buy water-saving appliances.