Climate Change

Published: 11:22pm, 10 Jan, 2022 Updated: 1:43am, 11 Jan, 2022 Read More

Dishes sit on a gas stove. (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times) To fight climate change, municipalities across the United States are banning natural gas lines from being installed in new buildings. That means no gas stoves. Politicians and policymakers in those places — Berkeley being one of the first…

Commentary Netlix's new release starring Leonardo Di Caprio, Jennifer Lawrence and Meryl Streep gained widespread popularity, delivering ominous warning of climate change denial, say researchers. This image released by Netflix shows Jonah Hill, from left, Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep and Jennifer Lawrence in "Don't Look Up." (Niko Tavernise/Netflix via AP) LOS…

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Don't Look Up, director Adam McKay's star-studded feature film that offers an allegorical take on the climate crisis, only debuted on Netflix a little over a month ago. Yet its performance during that relatively brief window of time has been — well, nothing short of staggering. For the 7-day period…

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Every disaster movie seems to open with a scientist being ignored. “Don’t Look Up” is no exception—in fact, people ignoring or flat out denying scientific evidence is the point. Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence play…

I stepped onto the battlefield of climate change, sidestepping carcass after carcass. In the grass were the remains of Arctic terns, common terns, and roseate terns. Along the boulders, researchers pointed out dead puffin chicks. As other climate war zones smolder with wildfire embers, are strewn with flattened homes, or marked by bleached…

Author of the article: Megan Gillis OTTAWA Traffic and pedestrians made their way along O'Connor Street as Ottawa was blanket with snow, Saturday, Dec. 4, 2021. ASHLEY FRASER, POSTMEDIA Photo by Ashley Fraser /Postmedia It’s a wintry start to the weekend with flurries forecast for Friday adding up to 2…

“Alternate reality allows us to push the levers pressuring societies to extremes that wouldn’t really be possible in a realistic setting,” Frostpunk design director Jakub Stokalski tells WIRED. “And what happens to large groups of people under pressure—that’s truly the theme.” While Frostpunk’s volcanic backstory lets humanity off the hook,…

A Democratic president was in the White House. The Democratic Party held a majority of seats in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. But a single senator — a moderate Democrat from West Virginia — blocked the White House’s preferred climate plan. No, this wasn’t 2021 — the…