Biden Pledges Money for Firefighters as a Heat Wave and Wildfires Roil the West

With a record-shattering heat wave suffocating much of the Pacific Northwest and a drought-fueled wildfire season already well underway, President Biden pledged on Wednesday to keep federal firefighters on duty for a longer season, and to increase their pay. But…

Are ‘Heat Pumps’ the Answer to Heat Waves? Some Cities Think So.

Many climate experts say the long-term solution is to replace most of those fossil-fuel appliances with electric versions powered by a greener grid. But in practice, that’s difficult. While cities like Berkeley have rewritten building codes to ban new buildings…

Since When Have Trees Existed Only for Rich Americans?

By Ian Leahy and Yaryna Serkez Ian Leahy is the vice president of urban forestry at American Forests. Yaryna Serkez is a writer and a graphics editor for Opinion. Access to clean air and outdoor activities seems like a basic…

Carbon fees are part of the solution to climate change – The Durango Herald

What’s your preferred term for the planet’s climate predicament? “Global warming?” The warming isn’t global. “Climate Crisis?” That’s problematic, discouraging some overwhelmed by the prospect. Others find it too extreme. “Climate change” may be accurate. Whatever your term, it’s a…

In Video, Exxon Lobbyist Describes Efforts to Undercut Climate Action

The veteran oil-industry lobbyist was told he was meeting with a recruiter. But the video call, which was secretly recorded, was part of an elaborate sting operation by an individual working for the environmental group Greenpeace UK. During the call,…

Democrats Have a Year to Save the Planet

A century from now, our descendants may look back on the next year or so as a hinge in history. This could be the great turning point — an opportunity for the United States to finally take grand action to…

Detroit Is Not Built to Handle Climate Change – WDET

When flooding rains filled freeways and drenched basements across Metro Detroit in 2014, it was considered a 100-year flooding event.   It happened again over the weekend, with twice the normal amount of June rainfall happening within a few hours. Another heavy…

What a Water Shortage Is Doing to Some of America’s Best Farmland

By Somini Sengupta Strawberries in the middle of winter. Almond milk in your latte. Cans of tomato paste that end up on your pizza. So much of what we eat is produced on the vast farms of California’s Central Valley….

Norway Closes Down Its Last Arctic Coal Mine and Transforms Land into Giant National Park

Reprinted with permission from World At Large, a news website of nature, politics, science, health, and travel. Norway is dismantling their last Arctic coal mine piece by piece and turning the area it sits in into a national park twice the size of Grand Teton in Wyoming. The goal is to turn the Svalbard Archipelago, in […]

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Opinion | Scalding temperatures give a taste of the suffering global warming brings – The Washington Post

States such as Oregon and Washington are not built for heat. Many people do not have air conditioning. Hospitals are unused to handling symptoms of extreme heat exposure. Similarly, the dry docks in Virginia’s Hampton Roads were built for a…