Who is most likely to talk about climate change?

One of the most important actions people can take to address global warming is to talk about it, says Dr. Katharine Hayhoe, climate scientist and Chief Scientist at The Nature Conservancy. According to Dr. Hayhoe, positive conversations about the climate…

Plant These Trees to Help Battle Climate Change Across New Mexico

Join Albuquerque to Increase Tree Canopies Depending on where you live, research shows trees can lower temperatures from 5 to 13 degrees. Albuquerque’s campaign, Let’s Plant ABQ, commits to planting 100,000 trees by 2030—to cool and improve the city by…

Climate change scrambles the Florida Keys – POLITICO – POLITICO

New affordable homes are under construction at Seahorse Cottages at a Big Pine Key, Fla., development site in January. | Daniel Cusick/POLITICO’s E&E News Climate change is making it more dangerous — and much more expensive — to live on…

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…

Twenty-five trailblazing women leading the fight against climate change – Reuters

March 7 – With so many extraordinary women engaged in the battle against climate change, the biggest task in compiling Reuters Impact’s list of trailblazing women for International Women’s Day was whittling down our long list to only 25. We…

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…

Pacific winter snowstorm coming … again

A Pacific winter storm has the US West Coast in its sights. Flooding rainfall, wind, and snow measured in feet are in store over the weekend.

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Shellenberger: No, Humans Are NOT Causing A ‘Sixth Mass Extinction’

On CBS “60 Minutes” last night, scientists claimed that humans are causing a “sixth mass extinction” and that we would need the equivalent of five planet Earths for all humans to live at current Western levels. “No, humanity is not…

Study: Climate change affects boreal forest trees | News, Sports … – Iron Mountain Daily News

RESEARCHERS FIND THAT climate change can have deadly effects on trees such as these in a northern boreal forest. (Minnesota Department of Natural Resources) A new study by researchers from the University of Michigan, University of Minnesota Twin Cities and…

Climate misinformation spreads on Musk’s Twitter – E&E News

At Tesla, Elon Musk helped kick-start an electric vehicle revolution that will meaningfully cut greenhouse gas emissions. Now, as Twitter’s CEO, he’s overseeing one of the world’s most popular social media platforms that’s rife with climate change misinformation. And it…