Climate Change

Greta is getting impatient.  On Friday, a reported 500,000-person climate change action protest swelled in the streets of Madrid. The protesters many of them skipping school as part of the "School Strike for Climate" movement were there to pressure world lea…

For weeks now, Australia has been dealing with severe bushfires. Theyve engulfed the countrys largest city in smoke, threatening air quality throughout New South Wales and destroying key koala habitat. In New South Wales alone, more than 100 bush and grassfir…

The joint venture will break ground on a plant in the Lordstown, Ohio area next year to produce the battery cells and is expected to create more than 1,100 new jobs. The two companies will invest $2.3 billion and the plant will produce more than 30-gigawatt h…

The same could not be said of all atmospheric rivers, however: Theyve caused almost $51 billion in flood damages across the West over 40 years, a new report by Mr. Ralphs colleagues found. In fact, atmospheric rivers cause an average of $1 billion of damage …

A deluge so extreme hit Northern California in late February 2019 that a news photographer spotted a man rowing through town in a garbage dumpster. This type of common winter storm is called an atmospheric river, a formidable band of moisture (sometimes dubb…

The great french fry shortage of 2020 may be upon us

Particulates are just one component of air pollution, but they pose a significant health riskespecially the ones that are smaller than 2.5 microns. Particulate pollution can aggravate asthma and can contribute to heart disease, stroke, and other health condit…

The trio will help power Amazon Web Services data centers and, in Spain, Amazon's European fulfillment network (read: warehouses). Amazon didn't have a time frame for when the facilities would be ready. These efforts nudge Amazon closer to its goal of runnin…

COP25: WWF and Prado Museum use art to show climate change

(CNN)Women are at risk of giving birth early due to warmer temperatures brought on by the climate crisis, a new study finds. The study, published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change, found that on days when temperatures soar past 90 degrees Fahrenhei…