Climate Change

The current cold weather snap gripping the UK feels like a world away from the record-high temperature recorded during the summer months of 2022. With extremes of heat and cold expected to increase around the world as climate change affects weather systems, an ever-more-pressing question will arise about how people…

What can old bones teach us about adapting to climate change? More than you’d think. In a new paper published in the journal PNAS last week, 25 archaeologists and anthropologists analyzed thousands of years’ worth of human remains from nearly every continent to learn how ancient people responded to rapid…

January 22, 2023 10:10 AM Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit here. Sustainability isn’t just a buzzword to satisfy investors and customers. Business survival in a world increasingly threatened by extreme heat and weather events affects the livelihoods of consumers, disrupts essential operations and chokes…

AP Photo/Rick Bowmer Steam is emitted from smokestacks at a coal-fired power plant on Nov. 17, 2021, in Craig, Colo. President Biden deserves high praise for rejoining the Paris Climate Accords at the recent COP27 Summit and steering his major climate change legislation — the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) —…

Harold Davis, who's 29 years old, bought this truck and snowplow in the fall. Opportunities to use his new plow have been few and far between. Mara Hoplamazian/New Hampshire Public Radio hide caption toggle caption Mara Hoplamazian/New Hampshire Public Radio Harold Davis, who's 29 years old, bought this truck and…

Researchers from the University of Washington have highlighted how climate change presses and pulses have impacted Magellanic penguins. The scientists split the effects of climate change into two separate components. Pulses are short-term, like heat waves, and pressers are long-term effects, like changes in ocean currents and such. Studying the…

At the beginning of Ann-Helén Laestadius’ novel Stolen, 9-year old Elsa skis to her family’s reindeer corral in northern Sweden as the low winter sun sets. Elsa, who is Sámi and comes from a family of reindeer herders, relishes the freedom of skiing alone, and caring for the animals. Hoping…

Bringing the subject of climate change into the classroom will support future generations’ efforts to protect our planet and conserve resources, the head of UAE philanthropic organisation Dubai Cares has said. Climate change “should always be part of” the education agenda and education will be an important part of the…

Agroforestry is a climate solution that’s growing in popularity in the U.S., where a new leader is set to promote and support its adoption.The new director of the National Agroforestry Center brings decades of experience to the task, and previously served as the organization’s acting director.“Agroforestry is particularly appealing as…

In early 1862, a storm of biblical proportions struck California, dropping more than 120 inches of rain and snow on the state over two months. The entire state flooded, but nowhere was the deluge worse than in the Central Valley, a gash of fertile land that runs down the middle…