Climate Change

Joe Biden emphasized climate change in his speech accepting the Democratic nomination Thursday night, as the days leading up to it offered fresh evidence of the problem's scale and tensions within his coalition.Why it matters: It was a statement of priority in the most important speech of Biden's campaign to…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) used his Democratic National Convention address on Thursday to highlight the real-world effects of climate change, speaking just a mile from the site of one of the over 370 wildfires that are currently ravaging his state.What he's saying: "Well, I confess this is not where…

Very few academics or policy makers are talking about the impact of climate change on heritage. Yet heritage is essential for social wellbeing, for identity creation, for safeguarding traditional knowledge and livelihoods and for sustainable development.The conversations taking place are mainly on the effects of climate change in wealthier countries.…

All together thenMany geographically dispersed records from across the globe reveal the occurrence of abrupt climate changes, called interstadial events, during the last glacial period. These events appear to have happened at the same time, but the difficulty of determining absolute dates in many of the records have made that…

Thousands of lightning strikes have sparked hundreds of fires across California in recent days, producing several major clusters burning around the San Francisco Bay Area. The blazes quickly ripped through hundreds of thousands of acres, forcing thousands to evacuate, filling the skies with smoke, and raining down ash across much…

Genevieve Poblano / Digital TrendsThere are a lot of reasons your favorite beef burger isn’t great for the environment. Cattle take up a lot of space and consume a lot of food, and growing, processing, and transporting it all causes greenhouse gas emissions. Alexia Akbay isn’t trying to solve all…

Extreme weather events and bark beetles damage the forests. The conversion to mixed forests could make the stands more resistant. Credit: Gabi Zachmann, KIT Firs and spruces dominate the tree population of the Black Forest with a share of 80 percent. However, such predominantly pure stands are particularly vulnerable to…

Canada: D&Os Must Watch Canada's Evolving Response To Twin Challenges Of COVID-19 And Climate Change 18 August 2020 Clyde & Co To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. As anyone can attest, the focus on climate change-related issues in Canada and internationally…

This story was originally published by Slate and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. July 23, 2018, was a day unlike any seen before in Japan. It was the peak of a weekslong heat wave that smashed previous temperature records across the historically temperate nation. The…

MIT’s Asegun Henry on tackling five “grand thermal challenges” to stem the global warming tide: “Our mission here is to save humanity from extinction due to climate change.” Credit: Portrait photo courtesy of MIT MechE “Our mission here is to save humanity from extinction due to climate change,” says MIT…