Climate Change

Barbara VanDenburgh USA TODAYPublished 8:00 AM EDT Sep 5, 2020In search of something good to read? USA TODAY's Barbara VanDenburgh scopes out the shelves for this week’s hottest new book releases.1. “What Can I Do? My Path from Climate Despair to Action,” by Jane Fonda (Penguin, nonfiction, on sale Sept.…

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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A Mexican court will later this week hear a case brought on by 15 young people demanding the government of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador set out clear policies on climate change, documents show.Lopez Obrador is under increased pressure to help mitigate the effects of climate…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Climate change could deliver more silt, sand and pollution to the San Francisco Bay-Delta, along with a mixed bag of other potential consequences and benefits, according to a new study in the AGU journal Water Resources Research, which publishes research articles and commentaries providing a broad…

For billions of years, plants and their ancestors, the cyanobacteria, have been powerful agents of change on Earth. They pumped out oxygen and squirreled away carbon dioxide, transforming the chemistry of the biosphere. They colonized land and allowed animal life to follow, changing the course of evolution. Now molecular biologist…

An interview with Prof. Jan Semenza, lead of the health determinants programme, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, who will be speaking at the HIMSS & Health 2.0 European Digital Event that is due to kick off on 7 September.Read More

If it seems like the wildfire season is getting worse and worse with each passing year, that’s not just your perception. It’s still early in California’s wildfire season, yet 2020 has already become one of the state’s more devastating burn years. This month, more than 13,000 lightning strikes ignited hundreds…

The latest headlines in your inbox twice a day Monday - Friday plus breaking news updates Extinction Rebellion is set to hold 10 days of demonstrations across central London from today as part of its ongoing campaign to highlight climate change. The Metropolitan Police has already imposed conditions against protests…

Ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica whose melting rates are rapidly increasing have raised the global sea level by 1.8cm since the 1990s, and are matching the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's worst-case climate warming scenarios. According to a new study from the University of Leeds and the Danish Meteorological…

Climate change occurring shortly before their disappearance triggered a complex change in the behaviour of late Neanderthals in Europe: they developed more complex tools. This is the conclusion reached by a group of researchers from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and Università degli Studi die Ferrara (UNIFE) on the basis of finds…