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Global warming driving more extreme droughts and floods, NASA satellites show – USA TODAY

Twenty years of NASA’s global satellite data show just how much the extent, duration and severity of extreme droughts and floods have risen alongside warming global temperatures, a new study reveals. The study looked at the timing of such events…

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….

The 50 States of Climate Change – Outside Online – Outside

Since the 1700s, the amount of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere has increased by 40 percent, largely from greenhouse gasses released by people burning fossil fuels like oil, gas, and coal. As a result, the climate is becoming more…

Top NOAA Scientist Warned Of Offshore Wind’s Harm To Whales In May 2022

A senior Biden administration scientist authored an internal memo warning of the impacts offshore wind development may have on marine life months before the recent spate of whale deaths along the East Coast. Sean Hayes, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric…

Parts of US see earliest spring conditions on record: ‘Climate change playing out in real time’

Blooming daffodils in New York City. Leaves sprouting from red maples in North Carolina. Cherry blossoms about to bud in Washington. Record winter warmth across much of the eastern US has caused spring-like conditions to arrive earlier than ever previously…

At Least 30 NJ Mayors Want Offshore Wind Halted As Whale Deaths Mount

A coalition of 30 mayors representing communities along the New Jersey coast is calling on federal lawmakers and officials to implement a moratorium on offshore wind development in response to a spate of whale deaths. The mayors, who collectively represent…

Hundreds Of NJ Locals Rally Against Offshore Wind Over Rash Of Whale Deaths

Hundreds of local residents in a coastal New Jersey town rallied over the weekend, calling for a federal moratorium on offshore wind energy development until the recent uptick in whale deaths was determined. During the rally in Point Pleasant Beach,…

Explained: ‘The Last of Us’ on climate change and ‘Zombie ant fungus’ – USA TODAY

As the climate warms the planet and temperatures rise, some fungi are figuring out how to exist at higher temperatures than they usually like. Enter zombie concerns. Some real-life fungi are already gruesome, including one that turns ants into zombies. Could…

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