Climate Change

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In early May, President Joe Biden stood in front of the 70-year old Calcasieu River Bridge in Lake Charles, Louisiana. With the aging bridge in the background, he spoke about the hurricanes that have battered the town over the last year, emphasizing the need for infrastructure to adapt to the…

Why are media outlets still not treating climate change as the catastrophic threat it truly is? June 3, 2021 TV newsman Bill Moyers likes to tell the story of how Edward R. Murrow, the preeminent US broadcast journalist of his time, insisted on covering what became Germany’s invasion of Poland…

By New Scientist and Press Association Snow leopards are one of the species under threat from climate change Sebastian Kennerknecht / Minden Wildlife ranging from bluebells and bumblebees to snow leopards and emperor penguins is under threat from climate change, according to a new report. Even the coffee plants that…

Every year heat kills tens of thousands of people. Their breathing grows shallow, their heart rates flutter, their muscles spasm, and then they die. Heat killed over 100,000 people in 2018, when high temperatures broiled the European Union. A new study suggests that climate change was responsible for many of…

Author of the article: Reuters Megan Rowling, Thomson Reuters Foundation By Megan Rowling BARCELONA, May 31 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Governments must finalize rules for the Paris Agreement on climate change at November’s COP26 summit so the pact can be fully implemented and serve as the basis for a green…

Author of the article: Megan Gillis Files: The picturesque Rideau Falls on a sunny day. Photo by Ashley Fraser /Postmedia May ends on a sunny note with temperatures set to climb and a chance of some much-needed rain later in the week. Monday is expected to reach 24 C with…

SEOUL, South Korea, May 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- As responding to climate change emerges as the biggest issue in the international community, the 2021 P4G Seoul Summit will be held at Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) in Seoul from May 30 to 31. The P4G Seoul Summit is the third of the…

SYDNEY—Researchers on a boat off the southern coast of Australia recently began throwing some 50,000 bags of sand into the ocean. Their goal is to restore about two dozen acres of seagrass on the ocean floor that will suck carbon out of the atmosphere. The move is part of an…

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. David M. Hart, Professor of Public Policy, George Mason University President Joe Biden is calling for a more than 60% increase in spending to fight climate change in his first federal budget, with…