April 5, 2021 Natasha John – Andrew Shaw – Clinton Vince On March 31, President Biden unveiled his US$2 trillion infrastructure proposal – the American Jobs Plan – in a speech in Pittsburgh. The American Jobs Plan includes funding for traditional infrastructure areas but also … Continue reading President Biden introduces ambitious clean energy and climate-change focused infrastructure bill
As days of extreme heat get more common, there are a few simple solutions that cities around the world are implementing to keep people a little more comfortable. 07.22.19 BY ADELE PETERS If you bike down a street on the edge of Los Angeles’s Echo Park … Continue reading Cities are getting hotter, but we can redesign them to keep us cool
It’s an expensive undertaking to protect the ‘City of Water.’ By Diana Madson Wednesday, February 21, 2018 Venice is known for old cathedrals, Renaissance art, scenic bridges, and canals. But when high tides cause those canals to overflow, life in the Italian city gets a bit … Continue reading Venice is building huge gates to keep out the rising sea
Cities aren’t using their key tool for climate action: Urban planning Too much of today’s conversation focuses on energy generation rather than urban design, land-use planning and zoning interventions. MIHIR PRAKASH DARCY JONES SEPTEMBER 11, 2017 Cities generate two-thirds of global energy demand and greenhouse-gas … Continue reading Cities aren’t using their key tool for climate action: Urban planning
What a week we had here in Miami Beach! 7.14” of rain around high tide, Tuesday August 1, 2017. Last year, in August 2016, we were fighting flood waters back home in Louisiana with the 30″ rainstorm my family receive in Livingston Parish. Climate Change … Continue reading Miami Beach flooding
by Brandon Keim | Jan 4, 2017 Want to know where climate fluctuations may already be producing new ecologies? Take a look at these maps. Published in the journal Nature Climate Change, the maps are part of a study that analyzed terrestrial climate conditions between … Continue reading A new map of Earth’s ecology-scrambling climate patterns
by Sarah DeWeerdt | Jan 10, 2017 Homes along stretches of the Florida coastline where people have added sand to beaches are larger than those along stretches where no such efforts have occurred, according to a new study. The practice of supplementing sand, called beach … Continue reading People are building ever-bigger homes on vulnerable beaches
January 8, 2017, by Tim Radford New research forecasts much colder weather in northern Europe if rising CO2 emissions continue to impact on the Atlantic ocean current. LONDON, 8 January, 2017 – Here is the long-term weather forecast for the North Atlantic, in a world … Continue reading Ocean current sends out chilling warning
By Erica Goode JAN. 9, 2017 Federal wildlife officials on Monday called climate change the biggest threat to the survival of the polar bear and warned that without decisive action to combat global warming, the bears would almost certainly disappear from much of the Arctic. … Continue reading Human-Driven Global Warming Is Biggest Threat to Polar Bears, Report Says
December 27, 2016, by Tim Radford Historic evidence of temperature change is revealed by mother-of-pearl layers in the shells of mollusc species that inhabit the ocean shallows. LONDON, 27 December, 2016 – Scientists in the US believe they have found a new source of hard … Continue reading Mollusc produces pearl of climate wisdom
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