In 2019, an archipelago in the Russian Arctic Ocean declared a state of emergency when an aurora of polar bears muscled their way into a settlement and began nosing through the garbage. At the time, experts said that the climate crisis likely caused the polar bear invasion, as dwindling sea ice forced them to seek […]
What regions are most at risk from the climate crisis? A new report from the Cross Dependency Initiative (XDI) looked at how increasing extreme weather events and other climate impacts might threaten important infrastructure in more than 2,600 states and provinces around the world by 2050. It found that the U.S. — along with China […]
Fresh produce shortages have prompted UK supermarkets — including Asda, Morrisons and Tesco — to ration their fruits and vegetables. Tomatoes, lettuce and peppers were being limited to three per customer at Asda, reported BBC News. Tesco, the latest store to implement buying limits, had a maximum of three per customer for cucumbers, tomatoes and […]
A new study released Thursday warned that the planet has entered “a new chapter in the climate and ecological crisis,” in which communities are forced to direct massive resources to responding to the escalating impacts of the climate emergency, taking focus away from efforts to slash fossil fuel emissions—causing what the report authors called a “doom loop” that will make avoiding the worst effects of planetary heating increasingly difficult.
An intense winter weather outbreak, informally dubbed Winter Storm Uri by the Weather Channel, swept across the U.S., bringing snow, sleet, freezing rain and frigid temperatures. Texas was hit especially hard, with all 254 counties under a winter storm warning at the same time.
In his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Joe Biden touted progress made on climate and the environment during his first two years in office and called out Big Oil for raking in record profits during the energy crisis. However, while he rallied the nation behind addressing the climate crisis, he gave no […]
President Biden touted the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act and criticized Big Oil profiteering while saying oil would be needed “for at least another decade” in his State of the Union address Tuesday night. Connecting the devastation wrought by across the country by “record floods, droughts, storms and wildfires” to climate change, Biden touted […]
About 3.4 million adults in the U.S. (1.4% of the adult population) were displaced from their homes by extreme weather disasters in 2022, a new survey from the U.S. Census Bureau reveals. Those findings, based on the 68,500 responses to the Bureau’s Jan. 4-16 Household Pulse Survey , are far higher than figures from the […]
This past month, reports flooded in of the deluge of rain hitting California. Californians were faced with dire situations, and at least 22 lives were lost. In all, over 30 trillion gallons of water fell in the state, according to a student scientist. But in a state with an unyielding drought, the majority of that […]
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