WASHINGTON » Much of the world is unprepared for the floods, hurricanes and droughts expected to worsen with climate change and urgently needs better warning systems to avert water-related disasters, according to a report by the United Nations’ weather agency.
Global water managem...
STOCKHOLM » Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for work that found order in seeming disorder, helping to explain and predict complex forces of nature, including expanding our understanding of climate change.
Syukuro Manabe, originally from Japan, and Klaus Has...
By Patrick Whittle
The Associated Press
Droughts that cause leaves to turn brown and wither before they can reach peak color. Heat waves prompting leaves to fall before autumn even arrives. Extreme weather events like hurricanes that strip trees of their leaves altogether.
For a cheery au...
Institute for Cultural Evolution August 31, 2021
Overview of Our Climate Change Policy Proposal
The original impetus for the founding of the Institute for Cultural Evolution in 2012 was to help reduce public resistance to meaningful action on the climate crisis. But after work...
By Henry Fountain
© The New York Times Co.
Sea ice in the Arctic Ocean has reached its minimum extent following the summer melt season, and coverage is not as low as it has been in recent years, scientists said Wednesday.
The National Snow and Ice Data Center, at the University of Colorad...
2021 Global Climate Strike: March with Sunrise SD!
September 24, 2021 at 1:00 PM
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San Diego, CA 92101
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Did you hear about the worldwide #GlobalClimateStrike taking place on Friday September 24, 2021? Young people are leading a #GlobalClimateStrike for action on the...
By Josh Boak and Aamer Madhani
The Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS » President Joe Biden summoned the world’s nations to forcefully address the festering global issues of the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and human rights abuses in his first address before the U.N. General Assembly o...
This wildfire season so far in California has been extraordinary, producing thousands of fires — including one that, at nearly 1 million acres burned, is the largest single fire in state history — and spewing so much smoke that air quality has been affected thousands of miles away.
Wildfire...
By Andy Stein
Special to The Denver Post
In a normal year, Denver will see an average of 43 days of 90-degree heat. That number has been ever- increasing as Front Range summers have been getting warmer and warmer over the years.
When talking about heat in Denver, it’s usually customary to...
Inside Climate News, 9/22/21
The agreement requires China and other signatory nations to slash the production and use of powerful greenhouse gases known as hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) over the coming decades, and to immediately stop emitting the most potent, HFC-23, a greenhouse gas that is 14,600 ti...
By Coral Murphy Marcos
© The New York Times Co.
When megafires burn in unison and harsh droughts parch the West, local governments, utilities and companies struggle with how to prevent outbreaks, especially as each year brings record destruction.
Carrying an unconventional weapon, Lani Ma...
Fair Bluff is a small North Carolina town in an idyllic setting, amid cornfields and tobacco fields and alongside the verdant Lumber River. But Fair Bluff’s setting may also be dooming the town.
Like much of eastern North Carolina, it sits on a coastal plain, one that is increasingly vulner...
Fair Bluff is a small North Carolina town in an idyllic setting, amid cornfields and tobacco fields and alongside the verdant Lumber River. But Fair Bluff’s setting may also be dooming the town.
Like much of eastern North Carolina, it sits on a coastal plain, one that is increasingl...
By Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs and Katy Reckdahl © The New York Times Co.
NEW ORLEANS » In many ways, Iley Joseph’s one-bedroom apartment was an ideal place to ride out a hurricane. It was on the third floor — much too high to flood — of a building that was sturdy and new, part of a sle...
Climate Reality, AUGUST 10, 2021 | 12:42 PM
The world’s climate scientists are sending Congress and world leaders a clear message: We are on the brink of catastrophe. What happens next is up to us.
The alarm bells really couldn’t be any louder or clearer.
We are living through the last years stil...
LATE-NIGHT SHOWS ARE TEAMING UP TO TACKLE CLIMATE CHANGE
Climate change may not be the easiest subject to laugh about, but late-night hosts are teaming up in hopes of raising awareness about the issue and even finding some humor in it.
On Sept. 22, seven network and cable late-night shows ...
By Renata Brito
The Associated Press
BARCELONA, SPAIN » Climate change could push more than 200 million people to leave their homes in the next three decades and create migration hot spots unless urgent action is taken to reduce global emissions and bridge the development gap, a World Bank...
Colorado looks to be ahead of Biden’s called-for pace on move away from fossil fuels
By Conrad Swanson
The Denver Post
Colorado is ahead of several states and the U.S. when it comes to renewable energy sources, with about two-thirds predicted to come from wind and solar by 2030. Energy ex...
Biden’s visit a chance to commit to climate action on public lands
By Jennifer Rokala
Guest Commentary
As President Joe Biden visits Colorado and the West, he’ll come face-to-face with the reality of climate change. Massive wildfires, accelerated by a century of unchecked oil, gas, and co...
By Justin Wingerter
The Denver Post
America cannot wait any longer to make large investments in clean energy and combat climate change, President Joe Biden said Tuesday in Jefferson County.
“Climate change is here today, not next year or 10 years from now. We have to make changes to slow climate ...
