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Yale Climate Connections - Energy

'We have an obligation’: Grandparents take action to help protect their grandkids’ future

Stay in the know about climate impacts and solutions. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Yale Climate Connections Jon Slote of Newton, Massachusetts, is a proud grandfather. And he’s concerned about how climate change will affect his three grandchildren. Slote: “They didn’t create the...

Emissions from plastic are on the verge of exceeding those from cars - yet companies often don’t include plastic in their net-zero strategies. At Circularity 24, a panel of experts gave advice on how to reduce corporate dependency on plastic waste. Plastic manufacturing is overtaking cars as the...

PHYS.ORG - Technology

Cloud computing giant Amazon Web Services on Thursday announced a $230 million commitment aimed at accelerating the development of generative artificial intelligence applications by startups worldwide. The initiative will provide early stage companies with AWS cloud computing credits,...

PHYS.ORG - Earth

Finding an insurance policy is getting harder in places hit by extreme weather

You don't need to be a scientist to understand the harms of climate change. All you need is an insurance policy. And finding affordable insurance is getting harder in the places hit hardest by climate change. As climate change increases the intensity and severity of extreme weather, the costs,...

New York Times - Climate Section

G7 Leaders, Expanding the Circle, Shift Focus to Migration and the South

Leaders from India, Brazil, the Middle East and Africa will join discussions on Friday, in a nod to the changing global balance of power. Reporting from Bari, Italy The leaders of the Group of 7 countries will share the stage on Friday with leaders from India, Brazil, Turkey and other...

PHYS.ORG - Biology

Every day, Magda Miloseska dons a white, protective suit and enters the domain of the honeybees in the backyard of her small weekend house in North Macedonia. She has been producing honey in this picturesque corner of the country for more than 20 years. But climate change and disease have made...

Skeptical Science

Somewhat surprisingly for what is regarded as a network of professionals, climate science misinformation is getting shared on LinkedIn, joining other channels where this is happening. Several of our recent posts published on LinkedIn have attracted the ire of various commenters who apparently...

PHYS.ORG - Earth

It's like an unspoken social contract. When people choose to live in South Florida, they must make peace with the possibility that, thanks to hurricanes, there will be flooding and they may incur thousands of dollars to fix their homes post storm. But that's supposed to be during a major storm...

PHYS.ORG - Earth

After cyclone gales tore down his home in 2007, Bangladeshi fisherman Abdul Aziz packed up what was left of his belongings and moved about half a kilometer inland, further away from storm surge waves. A year later, the sea swallowed the area where his old home had been. Now, 75-year-old Aziz...

Yale Climate Connections - Policy

Stay in the know about climate impacts and solutions. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Yale Climate Connections A strong majority of registered voters support certain policies aimed at tackling climate change, according to recent research by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication...

PHYS.ORG - Earth

In the hottest year on record, with scorching conditions claiming lives from India to Mexico and Greece sweltering in its earliest-ever heat wave, experts are sounding the alarm over heat stress. The condition kills more people than hurricanes, floods or any other climate-related extreme, but...

PHYS.ORG - Technology

Tesla shareholders voted in favor of a huge compensation package for CEO Elon Musk, endorsing the potential windfall after a Delaware court invalidated it, a company official said Thursday. Based on preliminary vote results, investors backed a plan of up to $56 billion for the mercurial Musk,...

New York is charging fossil fuel companies for climate change; California sues Big Oil for greenwashing and misleading consumers. In the New York State House in Albany, the State Assembly passed the Climate Change Superfund Act. Photo: Shutterstock/James Kirkikis Here are the major climate...

Washington Post - Climate and Environment

Vermont has enacted the first state law requiring fossil fuel firms to pay for damage caused by climate change. Will it survive a near-certain legal challenge? Nearly a year after catastrophic flooding struck Vermont, the city of Barre confronts the overwhelming task of steeling itself for the...

PHYS.ORG - Earth

The US is losing wetlands at an accelerating rate - how the private sector can help protect these valuable resources

In a high-profile 2023 ruling, Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Supreme Court greatly limited federal power to protect wetlands. According to one estimate, this ruling stripped federal protection from up to 90 million acres of wetlands across the U.S. Today, the U.S. is...

PHYS.ORG - Biology

How the health of honeybee hives can inform environmental policies in Canadian cities

Pollinators appear to be well-suited for the urban landscape. Cities shield them from many agricultural pesticides and predators, offer a wide diversity of vegetation and extend the pollination season by providing warmer ground temperatures. However, despite these potential advantages, honeybee...

PHYS.ORG - Technology

'Moderate' is the new 'extreme': Weather's impact on growing renewable grid operations

This evolution in both weather and the power grid is raising new questions about the intersection between extreme weather and the electric grid—and how to maintain and enhance grid reliability as the share of weather-driven renewable energy increases. In a first-of-its-kind study, analysts...

PHYS.ORG - Biology

Uncovering ancient wonders: The world's oldest inhabited termite mounds found in South Africa

These termite mounds, called "heuweltjies" in Afrikaans, meaning "little hills," are inhabited by the southern harvester termite, Microhodotermes viator, explains lead author on the study, Dr. Michele Francis, a Senior Lecturer (Extraordinary), in the Department of Soil Science in the Faculty of...

PHYS.ORG - Earth

When Hurricane Sally slammed coastal Florida in 2020, US pilot Dean Legidakes was aboard a scientific aircraft flying directly into the storm's core. Once back on land, he learned how the disaster literally hit home. "Our house got destroyed," his mother told him in a phone call from the...

PHYS.ORG - Earth

The 30x30 initiative is one aspect of the Convention on Biological Diversity, a multilateral treaty developed in the early 1990s. In fact, it's target No. 3 of the larger Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) adopted by the 196 countries that convened for the UN Biodiversity Conference in 2022. It...