Sep 21 Watch 6:43 As high temperatures hurt Sicily’s food production, rising sea levels threaten housing By Malcolm Brabant Climate change experts in Sicily, Italy are warning that rising sea waters are threatening some of the island's most crucial heavy industrial plants. They are also forecasting food shortages because crops are being destroyed. The island endured record temperatures this… Continue watching
Sep 21 The dream of carbon air capture edges toward reality in Iceland By Jon Gertner, Yale Environment 360 Next month, an industrial facility in Iceland will join a growing number of projects to remove CO2 from the air and put it underground. But major hurdles, including high costs, remain before this technology can be widely deployed and play… Continue reading
Sep 20 Watch 6:49 How the White House plans to combat the ‘silent killer’ of rising heat levels By PBS NewsHour 2021 had one of the hottest summers on record, with July being the hottest single month recorded. Extreme heat is expected to worsen with climate change. The Biden administration announced a plan Monday that would develop new workplace standards for… Continue watching
Sep 20 Nobody hurt but much damage in Spanish volcano eruption By Aritz Parra, Associated Press Giant rivers of lava are tumbling slowly but relentlessly toward the sea after a volcano erupted on a Spanish island off northwest Africa. Continue reading
Sep 19 Volcano erupts on Atlantic island; lava destroys some homes By Joseph Wilson, Associated Press A volcano on Spain’s Atlantic Ocean island of La Palma erupted Sunday after a weeklong buildup of seismic activity, prompting authorities to speed up evacuations for 1,000 people as lava flows crept toward isolated mountain homes. Continue reading
Sep 18 Watch 6:07 A new book examines ways to end unconscious bias By Megan Thompson When freelance writer Jessica Nordell started pitching under a gender neutral name, she suddenly found more of her pitches were accepted. She’s since dedicated her work to examining solutions to unconscious bias, which affects everything from education to health care… Continue watching
Sep 17 5 Stories: World’s largest carbon capture plant goes online, Paris landmark goes undercover and other stories you missed By Deema Zein, Julia Griffin The world’s largest carbon capture plant is up and running in Iceland, workers fulfill artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s posthumous dream of wrapping the Arc de Triomphe in fabric and school districts across the country face bus driver shortages. Check out… Continue reading
Sep 17 Biden, world leaders try to hammer out next steps on climate By Ellen Knickmeyer, Matthew Daly, Associated Press President Joe Biden tried to hammer out the world's next steps against rapidly worsening climate change in a private, virtual session with a small group of other global leaders Friday, and announced a new U.S.-European pledge to cut climate-wrecking methane… Continue reading
Sep 16 Southern Hemisphere ozone hole is larger than usual, surpassing the size of Antarctica By Associated Press Atmospheric ozone absorbs ultraviolet light coming from the sun. Its absence means more of this high-energy radiation reaches the Earth, where it can harm living cells. Continue reading
Sep 16 There’s no evidence COVID-19 vaccines hurt fertility. Here’s what’s fueling the myth By Isabella Isaacs-Thomas This moment could be an opportunity to address the consequences of leaving pregnant people, women and their unique health concerns out of medical trials and conversations. Continue reading