Climate Change

DAVIS, Calif. (AP) — Banana peels, chicken bones and leftover veggies won't have a place in California trashcans under the nation's largest mandatory residential food waste recycling program that's set to take effect in January. The effort is designed to keep landfills in the most populous U.S. state clear of…

The United States should research how to tinker with the oceans — even zapping them with electricity — to get them to suck more carbon dioxide out of the air to fight climate change, the National Academy of Sciences recommends. The panel outlines six ways that could help oceans remove…

Climate change and warmer conditions have altered snow-driven extremes and previous studies predict less and slower snowmelt in the northern United States and Canada. However, mixed-phase precipitation -- shifting between snow and rain -- is increasing, especially in higher elevations, making it more challenging to predict future snowmelt, a dominant…

Researchers at UC Santa Cruz are contributing new insights into the challenges plants face in adapting to climate change. Prior research has long anticipated that plants might be able to respond to increasing temperatures by changing their phenology -- or the timing of seasonal life processes -- at a rate…

Air Protein is a 2021 Inc. Best in Business honoree. With the second annual Best in Business awards, Inc. recognizes companies that have had a superlative impact on their industries, their communities, the environment, and society as a whole. CO2 in the earth's atmosphere is at its highest concentration in…

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NICE — Carbon taxes don’t need to come at the expense of lower-income people. Doug Johnson - Dec 6, 2021 11:45 am UTC Carbon taxes can attract a lot of flak. On one hand, some groups hate taxes and are indifferent to climate change—in Canada, various provincial governments actively fought…

More than 250 national security experts, including former high-ranking government officials, are calling on Ottawa to re-imagine its approach to security threats to confront new sources of peril — from fast-spreading disease outbreaks to natural disasters driven by climate change. Members of the Canadian Forces arrive by front end loader to help residents cope with catastrophic flooding in…

Children born over the past year are estimated to face seven times more scorching heatwaves and almost three times more crop failures than their grandparents. Newborns globally will also live through more droughts, wildfires and river floods, according to research from Save the Children. Despite many incremental changes in the…

Investments Will Make Rural Communities More Energy Independent and Resilient SHREWSBURY, Pa., Dec. 03, 2021 – United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the Department is investing $633 million to reduce the impacts of climate change (PDF, 394 KB) on rural communities. With the enactment of…