Here you will find different categories of news that we published during the week, with links to each article to read the full story. Enjoy!
A poll shows 45% of U.S. adults say they’ve become more concerned about climate change over the past year.
Like many Americans, Ron Theusch is getting more worried about climate change. A resident of Alden, Minnesota, Theusch has noticed increasingly dry and mild winters punctuated by short periods of severe cold — symptoms of a warming planet. As he thinks about that, future generations are on his mind. “We have four children that are []
Once trashed by local media and some officials, MMSD now enjoys wide support.
At a South African wine farm, dry, uprooted grapevines are stacked at the
As Hawaii faces a mounting water crisis, Oahu stands on the brink of what locals describe as an environmental catastrophe.
As part of a team of ecologists, I've been studying aspects of great tit biology at Wytham Woods near Oxford. One aspect of our research is how climate change affects their breeding behavior. So far, our research suggests that these great tits have been able to deal with climate change effects.
There are 154 national forests in the United States, covering nearly 300,000 square miles of forests, woodlands, shrublands, wetlands, meadows, and prairies. These lands are increasingly recognized as vital for supporting a broad diversity of plant and animal life, for water and nutrient cycling, and for the human communities that depend on forests and find cultural and spiritual significance within them.
In a significant stride toward sustainability, the World Bank has extended a generous $750 million loan to Colombia.
“As a policy statement, it’s completely toothless,” State Senator Ghazala Hashmi (D-Chesterfield), who wrote one of the bills, told 8News about the amendments. “It doesn’t address the issues that we were fighting for in the Right to Contraception Act and quite frankly, it’s not worth the paper it’s written on.”
By SETH BORENSTEIN (AP Science Writer) Climate change will reduce future global income by about 19% in the next 25 years compared to a fictional world that’s not warming, with the poorest areas and those least responsible for heating the atmosphere taking the biggest monetary hit, a new study said. Climate change’s economic bite in […]
"Star Trek" actor William Shatner used Monday's total solar eclipse to promote climate change activism, asking "what's the point" of concerning ourselves with space when human life is being threatened.