Florida is sinking. The Western states are drying out and catching fire. Is there anywhere in the U.S. that will still make a good home as the climate crisis continues? The answer is yes. There are cities referred to as “climate havens” because they are located in areas less likely to suffer from extreme weather […]
Extreme weather events like storms, heat waves and floods are expected to increase as the climate crisis intensifies, but they have already cost Europe a significant amount in both lives and money. A new analysis from the European Environment Agency (EEA) found that extreme weather events over the last 40 years had claimed 85,000 to […]
Climate-caused flooding will increase in the next 30 years, causing billions of dollars of losses that will disproportionately affect Black communities in the United States, according to a new study. Flood risk will increase by 26 percent, especially on the Gulf and Atlantic Coasts, where there is a greater threat of sea level rise and hurricanes are becoming more intense.
Two atmospheric rivers dumped even more rain on Washington and British Columbia over the (American) Thanksgiving weekend, and another is expected to pummel the already-widely-flooded region today. Some areas have been deluged by more than 2 feet of rain in the last 30 days. Less than two weeks ago as many as 18,000 people were […]
In her first major policy action, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu signed an ordinance on Monday to divest public funds from fossil fuels. The measure prohibits public investment in any financial instrument deriving more than 15% of its revenue from fossil fuels, as well as from tobacco products or jail or prison facilities. “Boston, as a […]
People in the U.S. are taking the climate crisis more seriously than ever before, a new survey indicates. The latest Climate Change in the American Mind survey from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication found that an all-time high of 76 percent of U.S. respondents think global warming is happening. Further, for the first […]
Researchers at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia are seeing climate change irreversibly damage ancient rock art before their very eyes. In just a matter of decades, rock art that has lasted thousands of years is being lost to the impacts of a warming world. In a symposium titled, Archaeology, History, Indigenous and Heritage responses to […]
A Category 5 “bomb cyclone” dumped historic amounts of precipitation across much of Northern California Sunday, creating dangerous flooding and landslide conditions in the region scarred by recent wildfires. The “atmospheric river” dumped more than 5.35 inches of rain on Sacramento on Sunday, the most in a 24-hour period since record keeping began during the […]
The scientific community’s level of certainty on humans’ causation of climate change is now on par with its agreement on evolution and plate tectonics. A review of scientific literature, published in Environmental Research Letters, found just 28 papers linked to climate skepticism in its trawl of more than 88,000. The findings support the IPCC’s declaration […]
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