The order didn’t say what is making the drought as bad as it is, but scientists in New Mexico have.
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New Mexico Governor’s Drought Order Avoids the Words “Climate” and “Emergency” Read Post »
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For the fewer than a hundred people that make up the entire population of Port Heiden, Alaska, fishing provides both a paycheck and a full dinner plate. Every summer, residents of the Alutiiq village set out on commercial boats to […]
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To the untrained eye, the National Science Foundation (NSF) Ice Core Facility in Lakewood, Colorado, doesn’t look like much: a boxy brick building packed with shelves of ice-filled metallic cylinders 10 centimeters in diameter. But to the more than 100 scientists who pull from its frozen records annually, it’s a treasure trove of information on […]
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The Critical Research That Unlocks Our Climate’s Past and Future May Be on Thin Ice Read Post »
Hummingbirds run on sugar. Sweet nectar powers their tiny, furious bodies and super-fast wings, which beat as many as 80 to 90 times per second. And luckily for them, they don’t seem to get diabetes, even though they have extremely high blood glucose levels. In the wild, hummingbirds, the smallest birds in the world, get their […]
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Is Your Hummingbird Feeder a Lifeline or a Death Trap? Read Post »
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Energy policy analysts are in broad agreement about one consequence of major legislation that Republicans are currently pushing through Congress: It will raise energy prices for the average American household by hundreds of dollars, once all is said and done. […]
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Trump’s “Big Beautiful” Energy Plan Will Burn Your Wallet Read Post »
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Donald Trump’s administration is set to claim planet-heating pollution spewing from US power plants is so globally insignificant it should be spared any sort of climate regulation. But, in fact, the volume of these emissions is stark—if the US power sector were […]
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Trump’s EPA Plans to Claim US Power Sector Emissions Are Insignificant. It’s absurd. Read Post »
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Straddling the border with Mexico along the Rio Grande, the city of Laredo, Texas, and its 260,000 residents don’t just have to deal with the region’s ferocious heat. Laredo’s roads, sidewalks, and buildings absorb the sun’s energy and slowly […]
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A Federal Program to Protect US Cities Against Extreme Heat Has Just Evaporated Read Post »
This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The “Big, Beautiful Bill” that Republicans are pushing under President Trump would roll back almost all the clean energy incentives that Democrats enacted under President Biden, shredding federal support for solar, wind, nuclear, electric vehicles, and other climate-friendly technologies. […]
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This story was reported by Floodlight, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates the powerful interests stalling climate action. It began with a lobbyist’s pitch. Tennessee Rep. Rusty Grills says the lobbyist proposed a simple idea: repeal the state’s requirement for reflective roofs on many commercial buildings. In late March, Grills and his fellow lawmakers voted to […]
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This Obscure but Powerful “Dark Roof” Lobby May Be Making Your City Hotter Read Post »
More than three-quarters of new gas pipeline capacity under development in the US would feed additional liquefied natural gas exports rather than supporting domestic energy needs, a new report concludes. Greenhouse gas emissions tied to that new capacity would be far larger than the current climate pollution from all coal-fired power plants nationwide, according to the […]
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America’s Gas Pipeline Buildout Is Mainly for Exports—Not Energy Independence Read Post »
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. David Cross is many things: a famed comic, an Emmy award winner, and a New York Times best-selling author. But he is not a climate scientist. That fact might make him the perfect person to communicate the urgency of […]
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Can Humor Help Solve Our Climate Crisis? David Cross Sure as Fuck Hopes So. Read Post »
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic, Justin Bibb was living in a tight, one-bedroom apartment in Cleveland, Ohio. He couldn’t open his windows because his home was an old office building converted to residential units—not exactly conducive to […]
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US Mayors Are Making Climate Action Personal—and It’s Working Read Post »
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