Sci-fi writer is visiting Utah with a message: Forget Mars and get ‘all hands on deck’ for climate change – Salt Lake Tribune
In the next hundred years, the oceans will rise precipitously, water will be more scarce, especially in arid places like Utah, forest fires will become more prevalent, species will die off, and core parts of our environment, from the oceans…
Drought Study Finds Climate Change Responsible, Irrefutable Research – CleanTechnica
Warming Makes Droughts, Extreme Wet Events More Frequent, Intense Scientists have predicted that droughts and floods will become more frequent and severe as our planet warms and climate changes, but detecting this on regional and continental scales has proven difficult….
Carbon capture: What is it and how does it fight climate change? – BBC
Inpho By Jonah Fisher BBC Environment Correspondent The UK government is set to announce where a ground-breaking power station will be built. The carbon capture plant is designed to stop most of the carbon dioxide (CO2) it produces being released…
Climate change is causing droughts everywhere – Yahoo News
A sunken boat reemerges in September 2022 in Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Nevada, after unprecedented drought. (David McNew/Getty Images) Much of the Northern Hemisphere is struggling with drought or the threat of drought, as Europe experiences an unusually warm,…
Opinion: How Mexico’s Indigenous communities fight climate change – Los Angeles Times
Mexico’s Indigenous communities are on the front lines of ecological preservation. Many still live on their ancestral lands and struggle against development projects that would destroy some of the world’s most precious ecosystems that they call home. Their resistance has…
Can combining geothermal heat with direct air capture solve the climate crisis? – The Washington Post
Sucking carbon dioxide out of the sky — or “direct air capture,” as it is known by experts and scientists — is a bit like a time machine for climate change. It removes CO2 from the atmosphere and stores it…
Which U.S. cities do better with climate change, and which do worse? – The Washington Post
Global warming will reshape the economies of American cities, and at the top of the list of metro areas that will be worst hit is San Francisco, according to a report by Moody’s Analytics released Thursday. The economic research firm…
Parched California Misses a Chance to Store More Rain Underground
Torrential rains could have helped to replenish depleted aquifers, but some say state bureaucracy, designed to distribute water fairly, has stood in the way. It sounds like an obvious fix for California’s whipsawing cycles of deluge and drought: Capture the…
Italy faces another year of severe drought after little winter rain or snow
Italy’s rivers and lakes are facing another year of severe drought after a winter of little rain and snowfall, raising the alarm on the implications for farming, hydropower and access to drinking water. Vast areas of the Po – the…
England may be set to flood at the end of winter â hereâs why
Driven by a La Niña event, exacerbated by urban development in areas prone to flooding and the impacts of climate change, the effects could be severe.
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