New York Times - Climate Section
Yale Climate Connections - Energy
How a solar development turned from threat to opportunity for an Illinois farmer
Stay in the know about climate impacts and solutions. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Yale Climate Connections When farmer Trent Gerlach found out a solar farm would be built on the land he had long worked in northwestern Illinois, he was disappointed. “As a farmer, seeing that land taken...
MIT - Research
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Stay in the know about climate impacts and solutions. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Yale Climate Connections At oil and gas drilling sites in New Mexico, people work long hours doing hard, dangerous labor. Marcela Díaz of Somos un Pueblo Unido, an immigrant-led, workers’ rights nonprofit,...
Russia’s Warming Arctic Is a Climate Threat. War Has Shut Scientists Out of It.
Huffington Post
RINCÓN, Puerto Rico - At the end of a dirt road leading to a prime surfing spot in this vacation town on the northwest coast sits a giant, hemispheric bulb bulging out from between the palm trees. When the structure popped up more than six decades ago, federal scientists called it the “dome of...
Advocates, Legislators Are Confident Maryland Law to Rectify Retail Energy Market Will Survive Industry's Legal Challenge
Laurel Peltier felt her blood boil as she scanned the news on her cell phone. She slid back in the chair, uncrossed her legs and put down her reading glasses. A stack of energy bills lay scattered next to a file she was supposed to review. After seven years of volunteering on Wednesdays at Gedco...
Pacific and Caribbean Island Nations Call for the First Universal Carbon Levy on International Shipping Emissions
For remote island nations like Tuvalu, shipping services provide a critical lifeline to international markets, food and healthcare. But their dependence comes at a cost they want shipowners to help pay. The global shipping industry is responsible for 90 percent of world trade and emits nearly 3...
Project 2025 Envisions Eliminating Civil Service Protection for Thousands
UC Berkeley’s Center for Law, Energy, & Environment (CLEE) is sponsoring a series of papers evaluating aspects of Project 2025, The Heritage Foundation publication, entitled “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise,” which has received attention in the Presidential election campaign....
Was a powerful political conspiracy behind Hurricane Helene? You might think that no one would believe anything that crazy. You would be wrong. This post by a conspiracist about Hurricane Helene got 11 million views: “Don’t worry guys, weather modification isn’t real! It’s just a coincidence...
Yale Climate Connections - Communicating
Stay in the know about climate impacts and solutions. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Yale Climate Connections Originally published by The 19th It was Labor Day in 2022 when Amy Dishion received the phone call that would change her life: Her husband had died of heat stroke. “My entire life...
Stay in the know about climate impacts and solutions. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Yale Climate Connections Producing solar energy on a farm typically means covering a field with panels. But now some companies make solar panels that stand vertically, so they take up less space and can be...
California continues to make significant headway toward its target to eliminate in-state sales of new internal combustion engine vehicles by 2035. About one in five new cars sold in California are battery-powered. And it’s not just California: Battery-powered car sales are up globally, with...
Nature Climate Change
Fire behaviour is changing in many regions worldwide. However, nonlinear interactions between fire weather, fuel, land use, management and ignitions have impeded formal attribution of global burned area changes. Here, we demonstrate that climate change increasingly explains regional burned area...
Compared with the risks associated with climate warming and extremes, the risks of climate-induced drying to animal species remain understudied. This is particularly true for water-sensitive groups, such as anurans (frogs and toads), whose long-term survival must be considered in the context of...
Democratic candidates in several key Senate races are breaking with a long-standing taboo among liberal voters: They’re increasingly embracing nuclear power as tech companies, banks and governments pour money into building new reactors to shore up a U.S. electrical grid that’s heaving under...
The U.S. Is Pushing Solar Panels On Puerto Rico - And It's Creating Issues
SALINAS, Puerto Rico - Diana Santi was used to stocking the shelves of her corner grocer in this tiny town with canned and preserved foods from the continental United States. She never understood why the fertile flatlands in this part of Puerto Rico’s southeast coast weren’t used to grow more...