Gabrielle Howard AFRO Intern ghoward@afro.com In recent years, cities across the globe have experienced alarming record-breaking temperatures and weather catastrophes, highlighting the alarming trend of rising global temperatures associated with climate change. Residents of D.C. are experiencing record-breaking temperatures of 100 degrees Fahrenheit. The increase in heat is causing […] Click here to view original […]

If your country no longer physically exists, what does that make you? It’s an existential question residents of one of the smallest and most climate-vulnerable countries on the planet are contemplating. This is the first of a three-part series by CNA on how Pacific island-nations are fighting climate change, […] Click here to view original

BBC A woman in a lab coat moves a cloud If we can’t control rising global temperatures by drastically cutting carbon emissions, could something called geo-engineering be a way to cool the planet? In what is already a £103bn ($135bn) industry, scientists around the world, including in the UK, […] Click here to view original

Daisy Edgar-Jones, Anthony Ramos and Glen Powell in Twisters. Photograph: Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures Twisters is the latest in a long line of movies that fail to address the environmental emergency – experts say it’s a missed opportunity A rodeo crowd waves cowboy hats as a man rides a […] Click here to view original

A regional collaboration of public media stations that serve the Rocky Mountain States of Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. Boise State Public Radio News | By Murphy Woodhouse Facebook Twitter LinkedIn The Climate Central Climate Shift Index map of the American West for July 20 The […] Click here to view original

For the first time ever, climate change is being talked about in conjunction with the Republican National Convention . It’s a conversation being driven by young voters demanding change from their representatives hoping for re-election. And it’s happening more on the fringes of the convention, not during prime time […] Click here to view original