The San Francisco Bay area experienced its wettest three-week period in 161 years in January of 2023. While the Bay Area found some respite from heat waves and wildfires in 2023, much of the world faced unprecedented challenges as the consequences of climate change became more destructive and undeniable. […] Click here to view original […]

Ian Billick, a field biologist and the mayor of Crested Butte, Colo., led a push to ban natural gas hookups in new construction as part of an effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Image: Sam Brasch/CPR News Once a sleepy coal mining town, Crested Butte, Colo., has transformed itself […] Click here to view original

Thawing permafrost due to climate change is releasing methane, a potent greenhouse gas. (Image credit: Valerii Buzun via Getty Images) Deep beneath the permafrost that blankets a group of islands in the Arctic Ocean lurks a growing and migrating sea of methane, researchers have discovered. The thick permafrost, or […] Click here to view original

(Image by Bing / Pressenza) All emerging nations, not just our own, struggle with electricity. And the straightforward explanation that electricity is either not available or not available by demand, etc., is often given. Scientists have taken the initiative to develop a new device that uses the temperature differential […] Click here to view original

(Zach Urness/Statesman-Journal) BILLINGS, Mont. — The Biden administration moved on Tuesday to conserve groves of old-growth trees on national forests across the U.S. and limit logging as climate change amplifies the threats they face from wildfires, insects and disease. Get a curated selection of 10 of our best stories […] Click here to view original

The threat of climate change and flood risk is forcing millions of Americans to relocate. In a new report, however, researchers are finding this doesn’t mean moving to a new state, people are simply looking for somewhere close by on higher ground. Flooding is driving millions of people to […] Click here to view original