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Like in ‘Postapocalyptic Movies’: Heat Wave Killed Marine Wildlife en Masse An early estimate points to a huge die-off along the Pacific Coast, and scientists say rivers farther inland are warming to

Published 8 July 2021 comments Share page About sharing Related Topics Europe heatwaves Image source, Reuters By Matt McGrath Environment correspondent The searing heat that scorched western Canada an

The Portland Streetcar is 20 years old, making it relatively sprightly for infrastructure in the United States. Yet it was built for a different geological epoch. On Sunday, while Portland suffered th

Source: ECMWF/Copernicus via KNMI Climate Explorer · Shaded areas represent places where maximum temperatures in the last week ranked compared with annual maximum temperatures from 1979 to 2020. Heat

Answers to questions about the current situation in California and the Western half of the United States. Houseboats on the shrinking Lake Oroville reservoir in California last month. Many have now be

As the coronavirus pandemic took hold last spring and people around the world went into lockdown, a certain type of news story started to spring up—the idea that, in the absence of people, nature was

Published 27 May 2021 comments Share page About sharing Related Topics Our Planet Now Image source, Reuters By David Shukman Science editor It's becoming more likely that a key global temperature limi

The United States is getting redder. No, not that kind of red. (We’ll leave that to the political pundits.) We’re talking about the thermometer kind. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administratio

California water officials have moved to stop Nestlé from siphoning millions of gallons of water out of California’s San Bernardino forest, which it bottles and sells as Arrowhead brand water, as drou

I hope we can all agree that “vaccine culture” is a bit depressing. The idea of wearing an evening gown to a COVID-19-vaccine appointment is objectively sad, and speaking from personal experience, tak

Published 29 April 2021 Share page About sharing Related Topics Climate change Image source, Reuters Germany's climate change laws are insufficient and violate fundamental freedoms by putting the burd

Extreme drought across the Western U.S. has become as reliable as a summer afternoon thunderstorm in Florida. And news headlines about drought in the West can seem a bit like a broken record, with som

"In a way we are unprepared for how much worse things will be with climate change." Cruel Fate Scientists recently abandoned a climate research outpost in Cape Cod Massachusetts — because climate chan

Published 13 April 2021 Share page About sharing Related Topics Fukushima nuclear disaster Media caption, Fukushima 10 years on: How the 'triple disaster' unfolded Japan has approved a plan to release

Should We Block the Sun? Scientists Say the Time Has Come to Study It. The National Academies said the United States must study technologies that would artificially cool the planet by reflecting away

A Hitchhiker’s Guide to an Ancient Geomagnetic Disruption A shift in Earth’s poles 42,000 years ago may have drastically altered the planet’s climate, scientists have found — and they’re naming the pe

Texas’ power grid was “seconds and minutes” away from a catastrophic failure that could have left Texans in the dark for months, officials with the entity that operates the grid said Thursday. As mill

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Peter Kalmus, out of his mind, stumbled back toward the car.

Published 15 February 2021 Share page About sharing Related Topics Climate change Media caption, Speaking via a big screen link at the Natural History Museum, Bill Gates said achieving net zero would

transcript 0:00/57:40 -57:40 transcript Should We Dim the Sun? Will We Even Have a Choice? Elizabeth Kolbert and Ezra Klein discuss what options remain if our political system can’t handle the climate

Got Climate Anxiety? These People Are Doing Something About It Distress over global warming is increasing, but formal and informal support networks are springing up, too. Credit... Hoi Chan By Feb. 4,

New U.S. Strategy Would Quickly Free Billions in Climate Funds Emergency management officials aim to funnel up to $10 billion into preventing climate disasters. The plan “would dwarf all previous gran

In his book, " The Great Influenza ," John Barry writes that the 1918 flu pandemic was the first time that "modern humanity . . would confront nature in its fullest rage." However, 2020 has shown us t

They are what scientists call charismatic megaflora, and there are few trees anywhere more charismatic than the three most famous species in California. People travel from around the world simply to w

This film from GOES-16 satellite images covers 10 days, Sept. 7-16, 2020 — a period of intense fire activity in North and South America. Clouds seen here at night would not be visible to the naked eye

It was only November, but the chill already cut to the bone in the small village of Dimitrovo, which sits just 35 miles north of the Chinese border in a remote part of eastern Russia’s Jewish Autonomo

Greenland is the largest island in the world and on it rests the largest ice mass in the Northern Hemisphere. If all that ice melted, the sea would rise by more than 7 metres . But that's not going to

How Parents Can Tame the Stress of Climate Crises When pandemic parenting is topped off by wildfires, hurricanes and other extreme events, some stress-relieving measures are particularly suited to get

Limiting Indoor Capacity Can Reduce Coronavirus Infections, Study Shows Research using cellphone data in 10 U.S. cities last spring could help influence officials’ decisions on new restrictions as cas

Published 30 October 2020 Share page About sharing Image source, LUCY BARANOWSKI Image caption, A top inquiry says Australia needs to prepare for simultaneous natural disasters Australia must prepare

Imagery from David Opdyke’s This Land , gouache on postcards There is only one truly serious political problem facing all of us today, and that is climate change. Judging whether or not the human pros

Published 8 October 2020 Share page About sharing Media caption, The renowned broadcaster says the excesses of capitalism must be "curbed" to help nature. Sir David Attenborough says the excesses of w

An aerial view shows the damage in Saint-Martin-Vesubie, in southeastern France, after heavy rains and flooding hit the Alpes-Maritimes department, seen on October 3, 2020. # Valery Hache / AFP / Gett

Pack a ‘Go Bag’ Now The first step toward a solid evacuation plan is pulling together all the gear you need, before you need it. Credit... Christian Monterrosa for The New York Times By Published Sept

Published 25 September 2020 Share page About sharing Image source, Getty Images Image caption, Firefighting resources have been stretched to the limit by the scale and extent of the wildfires By Matt

For most of us, climate change can feel like an amorphous threat — with the greatest dangers lingering ominously in the future and the solutions frustratingly out of reach. So perhaps focusing on toda

The federal government spends roughly $700 billion a year on the military. It spends perhaps $15 billion a year trying to understand and stop climate change . I thought about those numbers a lot last