Harvard awards $1.3M to fund climate change solutions – Harvard Gazette
Harvard faculty and students are advancing solutions to climate change and its wide-ranging impacts through new scientific, technological, legal, behavioral, public health, policy, and artistic innovations. Ten research teams will share $1.3 million in the eighth round of the Climate…
Fire season in US Southwest is early and intense
The 2022 fire season started early and is intense. Using prescribed burns and thinning can help reduce how quickly and far a wildfire spreads.
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A total lunar eclipse looks red. Why?
The moon can look red during a total lunar eclipse because of sunlight that’s filtered and refracted by Earth’s atmosphere.
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Open House: what steps should the government take to mitigate effects of climate change? – The Tribune India
Alarm bells can’t ring more vigorously Finally, the fire of global warming has reached our doorsteps and we are now experiencing the threat perception of climate change as never before in real terms. Environmental disasters are no more global issues…
Global Warning: Extreme weather conditions are sweeping large parts of the world – The Financial Express
Climate change has been at the top of the agenda for many nations across the world. Why would some global leaders otherwise appoint ‘chief heat officers’, who have the most important tasks at hand—to deal with rising temperatures in their…
Why Climate Change Makes It Harder to Fight Fire With Fire – The New York Times
“As the wildfire seasons get longer, those folks are gone for longer,” said Dan Porter, the forest program director in California at The Nature Conservancy, an environmental nonprofit. “When they come back, we may say, ‘Hey, would you like to…
Polluters are using forests as ‘carbon offsets.’ Climate change has other plans. – National Geographic
On July 6, 2021, lightning ignited a fire in the Fremont-Winema National Forest of southern Oregon, in an area packed with dead trees from a mountain pine-beetle outbreak. Fueled by drought, the Bootleg fire exploded, at one point consuming 1,000…
Alex Veilleux: Utah’s emergency drought declaration is an emergency climate declaration – Salt Lake Tribune
Last week Gov. Spencer Cox declared a state of emergency over the drought conditions in the state of Utah. It is important that the governor’s office is recognizing the dire outlook for water this upcoming summer, but we need to…
Wildfires in these forests could release a stunning amount of planet-warming gases, scientists say – kuna noticias y kuna radio
By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Wildfires in the vast and pristine forests of Canada, Europe and the far Northern US could release an enormous amount of planet-warming emissions between now and 2050, putting the world’s climate goals in peril, scientists reported…
Newsmax using climate change outrage to lure paid newsletter subscribers – Ars Technica
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 5 with 5 posters participating Share this story An unfortunate byproduct of the arguments over climate change has been the publication of some truly awful books. Think tank staff members, disgruntled scientists, and…
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