Raised by two psychologists, Madeleine Kline had wanted to become a doctor since she was little. And when she learned in high school how human activity was fueling climate change, she concluded “it felt fundamentally like a health problem.” So it seemed the most natural thing for her to […] Click here to view original […]
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Visitors walk among free-floating ice jammed into the Ilulissat Icefjord during unseasonably warm weather on July 30, 2019 near Ilulissat, Greenland. Credit: Some of the coldest parts of the Greenland ice sheet have hit their warmest levels in at least a millennium — and the amount of melting they’re […] Click here to view original
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OPTICS Icebergs from the Jakobshavn Glacier off the coast of Ilulissat, in western Greenland. | Photographs by Bradley Secker for POLITICO This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. NARSAQ, NUUK and ILULISSAT, Greenland As the most tranquil and magnificent backdrop to our planet’s climate catastrophe, Greenland’s landscape is […] Click here to view original
The 2018 Camp Fire killed 85 people and destroyed 20,000 buildings in and around Paradise, Calif. The big idea Psychological trauma from extreme weather and climate events, such as wildfires, can have long-term impacts on survivors’ brains and cognitive functioning, especially how they process distractions, my team’s new research […] Click here to view original
Graphical abstract. Credit: Quaternary Science Reviews (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107855 Pronounced climate fluctuations and changed conditions for agriculture coincided with the rise and fall of the Persian Empires, according to an international study led by researchers at Linköping University. The researchers have studied historical variations in precipitation and vegetation in […] Click here to view original
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Even the most remote regions of the world aren’t escaping the ravages of the warming climate , but what happens in Greenland isn’t staying in Greenland. Ice melt taking place as a result of warming temperatures over the island’s ice sheet has become a "major" contributor to rising sea […] Click here to view original
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