RESEARCH: USDA once hid climate reports. Now adaptation is a priority
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue will allow agency scientists to study how farmers are responding to climate change. Adaptation is a top theme over the next five years for a department that has been accused of suppressing scientific reports.
LITERATURE: Meet cli-fi. It’s dark, it’s gloomy — and it might help
New Orleans is gone; so is Florida. Oil is outlawed, and the nation is plunged into a second civil war marked by disease and desperate refugees. Climate fiction is a growing genre that might help readers grapple with their anxieties — or add to them.
ENERGY TRANSITIONS: The question BP didn’t answer: How?
The British oil giant sent shock waves through the industry by announcing plans to be carbon neutral. That raises a question that might take years to answer: Can it succeed and still be an oil company?
CAMPAIGN 2020: How N.H. elevated climate in the race for president
New Hampshire voters raised the chances that a climate-focused candidate will be nominated by Democrats to challenge President Trump in November.
BUDGET: What Trump’s fiscal plan means for the climate
The White House laid out its policy priorities for a second Trump term yesterday, and climate change wasn’t on the agenda.
Dietary interventions may slow onset of inflammatory and autoimmune disorders
Significantly reducing dietary levels of the amino acid methionine could slow onset and progression of inflammatory and autoimmune disorders such as multiple sclerosis in high-risk individuals, according to new findings.
EMISSIONS: An oil company wants to take CO2 from air. Here’s why
Occidental Petroleum Corp., the Texas shale titan, is trying to transform itself into a “carbon manager.” In the past two years, it has invested in an array of enterprises aimed at cutting carbon from factories, power plants and the atmosphere itself.
CLIMATE IMPACTS: Snowiest place on Earth grapples with disaster: Clear skies
SAPPORO, Japan — One of the world’s most popular snow festivals was nearly derailed this year by a problem that’s become increasingly well-known to winter sports organizers — warm temperatures and a lack of snow.
STATE OF THE UNION: Trump nods to GOP shift on warming without saying ‘climate’
President Trump hinted at a policy to reduce carbon emissions. It was a first for the president in a State of the Union address — but he did not say the words “climate change.”
CAMPAIGN 2020: Iowa ‘chaos’ could reshape future climate campaigns
The mishaps that shadowed the Iowa caucuses last night throw into doubt the state’s future as the first primary contest while potentially reshaping the way presidential campaigns talk about climate change.
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