Climate Change

Most recent stories in Climate Change

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  Gary Oates

  Scientists may have found something unfathomably massive living under Antarctica

  bgr.com - Joshua Hawkins

  Climate change is currently posing a massive risk to the ice shelves down in Antarctica, which has only fueled research in the area to increase more …

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  Gary Oates

  

  The largest dam demolition in history is approved for a Western river

  NPR - The Associated Press

  PORTLAND, Ore. — U.S. regulators approved a plan Thursday to demolish four dams on a California river and open up hundreds of miles of salmon habitat that would be the largest dam removal and river restoration project in the world when it goes forward. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's …

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  Gary Oates

  

  Heat is expected to get far more brutal in certain parts of California. People are still moving there in droves

  sfchronicle.com - Yoohyun Jung

  Temperatures are projected to rise more than 10 degrees in certain fast-growing parts of California. In the 1990s, Justin Johnson was one of two Black …

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  Gary Oates

  

  Climate prize winner empowers women in India to become farmers and entrepreneurs

  NPR - Kamala Thiagarajan

  On Sept. 30, 1993, at 3:56 a.m., a deadly earthquake shook Latur and Osmanabad, districts in the western Indian state of Maharashtra. It killed 10,000 people and demolished 52 villages. While many nongovernmental organizations were involved in the immediate rescue and relief work, there was one …

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  Gary Oates

  

  Water futures are "going to be ugly"

  boingboing.net - Elías Villoro

  "It's going to be ugly," Mark Squillace, a water law professor at the University of Colorado, said. "The bottom line is there just isn't going to be …

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  Gary Oates

  

  One state mandates teaching climate change in almost all subjects – even PE

  The Hechinger Report - by Caroline Preston

  PENNINGTON, N.J. — There was one minute left on Suzanne Horsley’s stopwatch and the atmosphere remained thick with carbon dioxide, despite the …