Climate Change

California and other southwestern states have been in the grip of a megadrought for the past two decades. Scientists say that, despite recent storms, these drought-stricken states won't be relieved from the hot and dry weather for a long time, and not without large amounts of rain. "To break the…

COURCHEVEL, France (AP) — Overall World Cup winners Mikaela Shiffrin, Federica Brignone and Aleksander Aamodt Kilde are among nearly 200 athletes from multiple disciplines who have signed a letter addressed to the International Ski and Snowboard Federation demanding action over climate change. The letter was delivered during the skiing world…

ANDREW DAMPF and ERIC WILLEMSEN, Associated Press Feb. 10, 2023Updated: Feb. 10, 2023 10:20 a.m. This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 1of15FILE - Athletes inspect the small strip of snow where they will compete in an alpine ski, men's World Cup slalom race, in Garmisch Partenkirchen, Germany,…

Public health experts around the world are sounding the alarm as cases of a virulent strain of avian influenza called H5N1 rise in mammals. Bird flu has infected humans in the past, mostly people who work directly with diseased poultry, but there has never been widespread human-to-human transmission of the…

Much maligned and undervalued over the centuries, temperate peatlands have seen a lot damage in that time — drained for agriculture, planted with trees, mined for horticulture and fuel. But in an age of escalating climate change, people are now turning to restoration.As potent carbon sequesters, peatlands have only recently…

Studies show that the effects of climate change can already be seen in Amazonian fish, which are growing smaller and less abundant in wetlands and streams; female fish are also reproducing at a younger age.It’s estimated that half of all threatened fish species in the Brazilian Amazon are sensitive to…

Ericsson study looks at the ways in which keen technology users are responding to new challenges Ericsson surveyed 15,000 early technology adopters across 20 major global cities including Bangkok to come up with its list of 10 trends. Almost 99% of the 15,000 global early technology adopters surveyed by Ericsson…

Climate change is the pre-eminent issue of our present and our future. And figures suggest that our attempts at staving it off so far are falling well short. If we are to achieve a cleaner, greener future, one of the most significant overhauls will be a shift to electric vehicles…

JENNIFER O'MAHONY and DAVID MONTERO SIERRA Feb. 7, 2023Updated: Feb. 8, 2023 12:14 p.m. This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 1of20A stork stands atop of a tree in Torrelaguna, on the outskirts of Madrid, Friday, Feb. 3, 2023. Europe's storks used to fly south to Africa's…

The ocean is one of the planet’s great carbon sinks, absorbing nearly a third of the atmosphere’s greenhouse gas emissions. Swimming in its depths are the great whales, a population whose sheer physical mass allows them to exert an outsized influence on the ecosystem around them. While researchers have long…