Category Archives: Climate
An aggregation of recent climate news feeds:
Climate Central - News→ Data may be Colorado’s best bet to mitigate increasing wildfire risk on the Front Range
2022-01-23 By Michael Booth, The Colorado Sun and John Upton, Climate Central Grass fires have threatened the meadows and homes near Chatridge Court and U.S. 85 three times in five years, and firefighters work …›
Inside Climate News→ ConocoPhillips’ Plan for Extracting Half-a-Billion Barrels of Crude in Alaska’s Fragile Arctic Presents a Defining Moment for Joe Biden
2022-01-23 After the Trump administration rushed through the Willow project in its waning days, a federal judge temporarily halted development pending additional review. Environmentalists want Biden to kill Willow once and for all.By Nicholas KusnetzThe Biden adm …›
Inside Climate News→ Warming Trends: Winterless Olympics, a Disaster Novel Shows the Importance of Storytelling in Climate Conversations and a New Lab Studies Parks and Warming
2022-01-22 A column highlighting climate-related studies, innovations, books, cultural events and other developments from the global warming frontier.By Katelyn WeisbrodDuring the century in which the Winter Olympics have been held, 21 cities in Europe, Asia and …›
Climate : NPR→ A teen’s solo transatlantic flight calls attention to wasteful ‘ghost flights’
2022-01-21 Kai Forsyth relished being the only passenger on a flight from London to Orlando. But his solo trip highlights the wastefulness of near-empty flights that environmentalists are trying to ban.(Image credit: Frank Augstein/AP) …›
Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ River flows linked to the ups and downs of imperiled Chinook salmon population
2022-01-21 A study has discovered that sufficient water flows during summer can be critical to a Chinook salmon population in the interior of British Columbia. …›
Climate – Science News→ Intense drought or flash floods can shock the global economy
2022-01-21 Extremes in rainfall — whether intense drought or flash floods — can catastrophically slow the global economy, researchers report in the Jan. 13 Nature. And those impacts are most felt by wealthy, industrialized nations, the researchers found. …›
Inside Climate News→ China Moves to Freeze Production of Climate Super-Pollutants But Lacks a System to Monitor Emissions
2022-01-21 The world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter announced the freeze in December after joining the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol, a climate agreement that requires an immediate ban on HFC-23, a potent greenhouse gas.By Phil McKennaChina has be …›
Climate crisis | The Guardian→ Female leadership is good for the world. Just look at Barbados
2022-01-21 Mia Mottley is just one of a raft of strong women across the Caribbean and South America tackling society’s most pressing issues. The world could learn a lot from themThere is a common misconception that the developing world is full of archaic values …›
Climate crisis | The Guardian→ Make no mistake – Labor and the Coalition have starkly different climate policies | Thom Woodroofe
2022-01-21 Both sides have committed to net zero emissions but voters will hopefully reward the one that knows how to get thereShortly before the 1996 election, Paul Keating warned the country that “when the government changes, the country changes”. With both …›
Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ Just what is a ‘resilient’ forest, anyway?
2022-01-20 What does a 'resilient' forest look like in California's Sierra Nevada? A lot fewer trees than we're used to, according to a study of frequent-fire forests. …›
MIT Climate Portal→ The radical intervention that might save the “doomsday” glacier
2022-01-20 The radical intervention that might save the “doomsday” glacier MIT Technology… Thu, 01/20/2022 - 12:21 MIT Technology ReviewTopicsArctic & AntarcticClimate ModelingNational SecurityOceansSea Level RiseFloodingPostJanuary 20, 2022The radical inte …›
Climate Beat – Covering Climate Now→ Stories to Watch — and Cover — in 2022
2022-01-20 Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter. At this stage in the climate emergency, every year is a make-or-break year. Our role as journalists is to focus public attention on what needs doing and how it can be achieved, and to hold governments, corpora …›
Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ Mount Etna’s exceptional CO2 emissions are triggered by deep carbon dioxide reservoirs
2022-01-20 Magma transports carbon dioxide stored in the Earth's mantle to volcanoes, where it is released into the atmosphere. A research team now presents results obtained using a new methodology to clarify the contribution of volcanoes to natural CO2 emissions. …›
Climate Beat – Covering Climate Now→ Q&A: Monica Samayoa on Climate Coverage by and for Communities of Color
2022-01-20 Each month, Covering Climate Now speaks with a different journalist about their experiences on the climate beat, their reporting tips, and their ideas for pushing our profession and craft forward. This month, we spoke with Monica Samayoa, who is the en …›
Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ Satellites reveal world’s most famous ‘mega iceberg’ released 152 billion tons of fresh water into ocean as it scraped past South Georgia
2022-01-20 Scientists monitoring the giant A68A Antarctic iceberg from space reveal that a huge amount of fresh water was released as it melted around the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia. 152 billion tonnes of fresh water -- equivalent to 20 x Loch Ness or …›
Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ English Channel stops new rockpool species reaching UK
2022-01-20 The English Channel prevents many rockpool species 'making the jump' from Europe to the UK, new research shows. …›
Climate : NPR→ Colorado looks to expand building codes as climate change increases risk of wildfires
2022-01-19 There are new calls for stronger building codes in Colorado after devastating suburban wildfires. The towns weren't considered at high risk for fire, but the warming climate is changing that calculus. …›
Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ Bubbles of methane rising from seafloor in Puget Sound
2022-01-19 The release of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas responsible for almost a quarter of global warming, is being studied around the world, from Arctic wetlands to livestock feedlots. A team has discovered a source much closer to home: 349 plumes of metha …›
Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ New simulations can improve avalanche forecasting
2022-01-19 Computer simulations of snow cover can accurately forecast avalanche hazard, according to a new international study. Currently, avalanche forecasts in Canada are made by experienced professionals who rely on data from local weather stations and on-the- …›
Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ Uncovering the underlying patterns in contemporary evolution
2022-01-19 Wild populations must continuously adapt to environmental changes or risk extinction. For more than fifty years, scientists have described instances of 'rapid evolution' in specific populations as their traits (phenotypes) change in response to varying …›
Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ Decarbonization tech instantly converts carbon dioxide to solid carbon
2022-01-19 A smart and super-efficient new way of capturing carbon dioxide and converting it to solid carbon could help advance the decarbonization of heavy industries. …›
Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ Particles formed in boreal forests affect clouds in the troposphere
2022-01-19 Direct observations were made on the interactions between aerosol particles formed in boreal forests and clouds in the atmospheric boundary layer. …›
Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ Climate crisis drives Mediterranean coral populations to collapse
2022-01-19 A new study has revealed that marine heatwaves associated with the climate crisis are bringing down the populations of coral in the Mediterranean, the biomass of which in some cases has been reduced by 80 to 90%. …›
Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ Why did ocean productivity decline abruptly 4.6 million years ago?
2022-01-18 By drilling deep down into sediments on the ocean floor researchers can travel back in time. A research team now presents new clues as to when and why a period often referred to as the 'biogenic bloom' came to an abrupt end. Changes in the shape of the …›
Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ Increase in marine heat waves threatens coastal habitats
2022-01-18 Heat waves -- like the one that blistered the Pacific Northwest last June -- also occur underwater. A new study paints a worrisome picture of recent and projected trends in marine heat waves within the nation's largest estuary, with dire implications f …›
Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ Sunflowers’ invisible colors help them attract bees and adapt to drought
2022-01-18 It turns out sunflowers are more than just a pretty face: the ultraviolet colours of their flowers not only attract pollinators, but also help the plant regulate water loss. …›
Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ Rivers speeding up Arctic ice melt at alarming rate
2022-01-18 Freshwater flowing into the Arctic Ocean from the continent is thought to exacerbate Arctic amplification, but the extent of its impact isn't fully understood. New research measures how the flow of the Yenisei River -- the largest freshwater river that …›
Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ Integrated modeling of climate impacts on electricity demand and cost
2022-01-18 Around the world, energy systems are increasingly impacted by the effects of a changing climate. Energy systems, especially the electric-power system, are vulnerable to natural stressors such as wildfires, severe storms, extreme temperatures and long-t …›
Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ ‘Rivers’ in the sky likely to drench East Asia under climate change
2022-01-18 Extreme rainfall events associated with atmospheric rivers, narrow bands transporting large amounts of moisture in the atmosphere, are becoming more frequent and severe in mountainous parts of East Asia as the climate changes. According to global and r …›
Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ Nearly half of countries’ shared fish stocks are on the move due to climate change, prompting dispute concerns
2022-01-18 Climate change will force 45 per cent of the fish stocks that cross through two or more exclusive economic zones to shift significantly from their historical habitats and migration paths by 2100, a challenge that may lead to international conflict, acc …›
Climate : NPR→ To get by in a changing climate, plants need animal poop to carry them to safety
2022-01-18 As the climate gets hotter, plants could need to move to new habitats. But animals that eat their fruit and help spread the seeds are disappearing. (Image credit: Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/DPA/AFP via Getty Images) …›
Climate : NPR→ The U.S. is divided over whether nuclear power is part of the green energy future
2022-01-18 Nuclear power is emerging as an answer as states transition away from coal, oil and natural gas to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and stave off climate change.(Image credit: Michael Mariant/AP File Photo) …›
Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ Earth BioGenome Project begins genome sequencing in earnest
2022-01-17 The Earth BioGenome Project is a global effort to map the genomes of all plants, animals, fungi and other microbial life on Earth. The EBP is entering a new phase as it moves from pilot projects to full-scale production sequencing. …›
Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ Earth’s interior is cooling faster than expected
2022-01-14 Researchers have demonstrated in the lab how well a mineral common at the boundary between the Earth's core and mantle conducts heat. This leads them to suspect that the Earth's heat may dissipate sooner than previously thought. …›
Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ Past eight years: Warmest since modern recordkeeping began
2022-01-14 Earth's global average surface temperature in 2021 tied with 2018 as the sixth warmest on record, according to independent analyses done by NASA and NOAA. Collectively, the past eight years are the warmest years since modern recordkeeping began in 1880. …›
Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ New research advocates a basic strategy for native fish recovery: Access to water
2022-01-13 Rivers need water -- a fact that may seem ridiculously obvious, but in times of increasing water development, drought, and climate change, the quantity of natural streamflow that remains in river channels is coming into question, especially in the Colo …›