The climate crisis already has a death toll, and it will get worse if we don’t act to reduce emissions. That’s the warning from the latest Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change, an annual public health report released Wednesday. “This past year, we have seen the harms of our converging crises — COVID-19, climate […]
By Jeff Berardelli This story was originally published on CBS News on September 9, 2020. All data and statistics are based on publicly available data at the time of publication. Right on the heels of arguably the West Coast’s most intense heat wave in modern history comes the most ferocious flare-up of catastrophic wildfires in […]
By Jeff Berardelli From the historic heat wave and wildfires in the West, to the massive derecho that tore through the middle of the nation, to the record-breaking pace of this year’s hurricane season, the unprecedented and concurrent extreme conditions resemble the chaotic climate future scientists have been warning us about for decades — only […]
By Jen Monnier In the summer of 2015, Laurie Weitkamp was walking on the beach near her coastal Oregon home when she saw something strange: The water was purple. A colony of tunicates, squishy cylindrical critters that rarely come to shore, had congregated in a swarm so thick that you could scoop them out of […]
The chance that UK summer days could hit the 40 degree Celsius mark on the thermometer is on the rise, a new study from the country’s Met Office Hadley Centre has found. British summers currently only reach 40 degrees every 100 to 300 years. But the study, published in Nature Communications Tuesday, found that such […]
By Eoin Higgins The number of fires in the vast north Asian region of Siberia increased fivefold this week, according to the Russian forest fire aerial protection service, as temperatures in the Arctic continued higher than normal in the latest sign of the ongoing climate crisis. The news of the increase comes a week after […]
Along many tropical shorelines, swampy mangrove forests create habitat for fish and buffer the impact of heavy waves. “Mangroves reduce the effects of climate change, protecting coastlines against erosion and rising sea levels and hurricanes or storm surge events,” said Alfredo Quarto, cofounder of the Mangrove Action Project. He says mangrove forests also store a […]
For years, researchers have warned that the climate crisis could expose people around the world to a potentially deadly combination of heat and humidity later in the century. Now, a new study published in Science Advances Friday shows that the conditions scientists thought were decades away are already here, and increasing. “I was astonished by […]
By Juan Declet-Barreto In early April, when social distancing took hold across many places in the U.S. — with school and workplace closings and public life coming to a halt — it seemed like an inopportune time to talk about climate change. We are knee-deep in a global health crisis of a kind not seen […]
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