Climate Change

My views on climate change—and, more generally, on humanity’s future—have never been stable. Depending on what I’m reading, and perhaps shifts in my neural weather, I ricochet between optimism and dread. Last spring I was feeling pretty glum about, well, everything when iconoclastic environmental activist Michael Shellenberger sent me a…

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A recent heatwave in Siberia that saw temperature records tumble as the region sweltered in 38-Celsius highs was "almost impossible" without the influence of man-made climate change, leading climate scientists say. An international team of researchers found that the record-breaking warm period was more than 2 degrees hotter than it would have…

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionFloods washed away homes and roads in western Ukraine in late JuneWhen flooding hit almost 300 towns and villages in western Ukraine last week, Prime Minister Denis Shmygal said they were the biggest since the 1990s. Climate change is part of the…

Amazon launched a $2 billion fund today to advance technologies that will cut down greenhouse gases. The fund will help Amazon and other companies adhere to The Climate Pledge initiative it started in September 2019. That pledge committed the company, and others that sign onto it, to becoming carbon neutral…

The livelihoods of millions of people living along the world's biggest river systems are under threat by a range of stressors caused by the daily economic, societal and political activity of humans -- in addition to the long-term effects of climate change, researchers report. A new paper by University of…

Two years ago, musician Stuart Hyatt had no idea that the endangered species called the Indiana bat would be such a huge part of his life. But then in 2018, he chaperoned his 10-year-old son on a weekend school trip to the Great Smoky Mountains. On the final night of…

(CNN)Siberia's prolonged period of unusually warm weather is an "alarming sign," according to climate change scientists. Surface temperatures in Siberia were up to 10 degrees Celsius (18 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than average last month, making it the vast Russian region's hottest May since records began in 1979, according to research…

This story originally appeared in High Country News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Last summer, across southwest Alaska’s Bristol Bay region—home to the largest sockeye salmon fishery in the world—tens of thousands of fish washed up dead along riverbanks. Rivers running at temperatures above the threshold for salmon…

Hypergiant founder and CEO Ben Lamm explains AI's role in creating a more flexible infrastructure for the future of space exploration. Grow Your Business, Not Your Inbox Stay informed and join our daily newsletter now! June 12, 2020 6 min read In this ongoing series, we are sharing advice, tips and insights…