Global warming, now dubbed "climate change," which covers both the cooling and warming of the globe, is tied for Americans' last priority.
Study connects heatwaves and cold snaps to surges in payday lending, keeping people in debt and harming communities of colorTwo competing payday loan stores stand on the corners of an intersection in south Los Angeles. An area of persistent poverty, south LA is also a banking desert where payday lenders fill the gap. Long lines form inside the stores on the first of the month, when rent is due.Guillermina Molina, a 60-year-old retired housekeeper, visits the same Speedy Cash each month. During...
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The small ecosystem in Puerto Rico where the study was conducted
During the unusually dry year of 2018, Sweden was hit by numerous forest fires. A research team led from Lund University in Sweden has investigated how climate change affects recently burned boreal forests and their ability to absorb carbon dioxide.
A study conducted over a period of 14 years in the Brazilian savanna-like biome shows its typical vegetation rapidly becoming "cerradão"—a biodiversity-poor forest formation—while resistance to drought and wildfires weakens.
Sparking global momentum and energy in young people through climate education can go a long way to addressing climate change now and in the near future.
As extreme weather events increase around the world due to climate change, the need for further research into our warming planet has increased as well. For NASA, climate research involves not only conducting studies of these events, but also empowering outside researchers to do the same. The artificial intelligence (AI) efforts spearheaded by the agency offer a powerful tool to accomplish these goals.
As the effects of climate change come knocking at American doors, experts say U.S. lawmakers can no longer rely on crisis response measures and must take action.
This grand challenge aims to harness AI technology in combating climate change and mitigating environmental degradation.
A new 33-country survey released by Ipsos - one of the world's leading market research companies - marking Earth Day, looks at how attitudes to climate change are transforming. The study says that although Indians have a sense of onus on climate change, they live in their own reality. For the survey, Ipsos interviewed 24,290 people online in 33 countries between January 26 and February 9, 2024. Earth day is recognised globally on April 22. Nationally, the study finds that 75 percent or more...
Urban environments paved over nature like Dubai with no way to drain the water from more frequent, massive rainfalls need new solutions for climate change fast.