Jan 31 Trump's tweets about the polar vortex could be a warmup for 2020 By Nsikan Akpan Here’s why global warming can make the winter more severe, and politics more divisive. Continue reading
Jan 25 Not so long ago, cities were starved for trees. That inspired a fight against urban warming By Sonja Dümpelmann, The Conversation Sixty years ago, urban tree planters stood on the front lines of fighting climate change. Continue reading
Jan 24 Watch 5:08 News Wrap: Maduro orders Venezuelan diplomats to leave U.S. In our news wrap Thursday, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro ordered his diplomats to leave the U.S. and accused Washington of trying to put a puppet in his place after the Trump administration backed opposition leader Juan Guaido as interim president. Continue watching
Jan 22 Most Americans say weather disasters shifted their views on climate change By Ellen Knickmeyer, Hannah Fingerhut, Emily Swanson, Associated Press A new poll finds 74 percent of Americans say extreme weather in the past five years — hurricanes, droughts, floods and heat waves — has influenced their opinions about climate change. Continue reading
Jan 16 WATCH: EPA nominee Wheeler says climate change 'not the greatest crisis' By Ellen Knickmeyer, Associated Press President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday called climate change "a huge issue" but not the "greatest crisis," drawing fire from Democrats at his confirmation hearing over the regulatory rollbacks he's made in six months… Continue reading
Jan 05 Watch 9:57 As seas continue to rise, New Jersey buys residents out of flood zones By Ivette Feliciano, Zachary Green Hundreds of thousands of New Jersey residents live in flood zones that can become inundated with storm water. But the state is trying to move some of them out of harm's way in one of the biggest home buyout programs… Continue watching
Jan 05 Reclaiming lost calories: Tweaking photosynthesis boosts crop yields By Amanda Cavanagh, The Conversation Many of the crop plants that feed us waste 20 percent of their energy, especially in hot weather. Plant geneticists prove that capturing this energy could boost crop yields by up to 40 percent. Continue reading
Jan 04 How your brain stops you from taking climate change seriously By Nsikan Akpan ...and how to fix it. Continue reading
Jan 04 Watch 4:55 New Mexico ranchers say battle over water rights jeopardizes their livelihood Tensions between ranchers and environmentalists are nothing new in the American West, but in New Mexico’s Sacramento Mountains, climate change could be magnifying them. In the past few decades, the government has designated several native species of animal and plant… Continue watching
Dec 28 Pelosi taps Florida Democrat to lead reinstated climate change panel By Matthew Daly, Associated Press Rep. Kathy Castor said in a statement that she was honored to lead the special committee on climate change and pledged to "act with urgency to reduce carbon pollution" and "unleash" American ingenuity to create clean-energy jobs. Continue reading