Climate Change

Agricultural engineering professor Ben Runkle has co-authored a report by leading ecosystem scientists and policy experts, calling for a scientific approach to nature-based climate solutions in the United States. The report is the result of dozens of scientists and policy experts gathering in Washington, D.C., in June to confront the…

Navigation for News Categories Mt Ruapehu has been grappling with its worst snow season in decades. Photo: Unsplash / David Calderwood South Island ski field operators are increasingly looking to rely on snow-making technology to keep runs open as the climate changes and snowfall is less reliable. Further north, Ruapehu…

Synopsis ​​Over the past few years, green crackers have risen to the fore as an eco-friendly option for a country that is obsessed with fireworks during the festival of light. These new varieties have risen from increasing climate change consciousness and policy changes. AgenciesEvery year, on the occasion of Diwali,…

DRESSLERVILLE, Nev. — Smoke began billowing into the skies of northwestern Nevada in September, clouding the mountains, dimming the sun — and quashing residents’ hopes that they would be spared from wildfires and the awful air quality the blazes produce. The lung-irritating particles were blowing in from burning forests in…

Dobbs, Juliana both center on life, liberty 'of children'(Reuters) - Young people who claim the federal government is violating their rights through fossil fuel-friendly policies that contribute to climate change on Tuesday cited a novel precedent to argue their lawsuit needs to go to trial: The recent landmark Supreme Court…

In 2018, during a savage drought, the California wildfire known as the Camp Fire burned 620 square kilometers of land, reducing several towns nearly to ashes and killing at least 85 people. The disaster also had a ripple effect far from the flames, at a supercomputer facility operated by Lawrence…

About 56 million years ago, volcanoes quickly dumped massive amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, heating the Earth rapidly. This time period – called the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, or PETM – is often used as a historic parallel for our own future under climate change, since humans have also…

Photo illustration: Shoshana Gordon/Axios. Photo: Emeric Fohlen/NurPhoto via Getty Images Land isn’t just a resource for many Indigenous peoples. It’s a sacred space, central to culture, livelihood and ancestry. The big picture: As climate change displaces millions of people every year, Indigenous communities around the world are grappling with an…

EnvironmentAs rivers either rage or fade from climate change-caused extreme weather, the debate is intensifying as to what role dams should or shouldn’t play in managing it. ByStefan Lovgren Published October 10, 2022 • 13 min read Around the world, rivers seem to be either raging or retreating. While catastrophic…

Canada is already feeling the impact of changing climate, much like the rest of the world. When a heat dome settled over British Columbia this summer, 570 people died. Last month, Hurricane Fiona wreaked havoc across the East Coast. While there may be no easy way out of this, some…