Climate Change

Five years after Sandy, locals torn on flood protection

By PBS NewsHour, Stephanie Sy

Five years ago, Hurricane Sandy decimated the East Coast, killing at least 60 people and causing an estimated $70 billion in property damage. It’s forced residents in Sea Bright, New Jersey to decide whether to support pricey taxpayer projects to…

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Five years after Hurricane Sandy, New Yorkers call for action on climate change

By Michael D. Regan

Five years after Hurricane Sandy struck the shores of New York and New Jersey, advocacy groups and residents question whether the region is moving fast enough to prepare for the next major storm.

How climate change is making these bamboo-eating lemurs go hungry

By Rashmi Shivni

Climate change is starving out Madagascar's greater bamboo lemur, a study published Thursday reports in Current Biology.

EPA keeps scientists from speaking about report on climate change

By Michelle R. Smith, Associated Press

The Environmental Protection Agency has kept three scientists from appearing at an event in Rhode Island about a report that deals in part with climate change.

PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode Oct. 22, 2017

By PBS News Hour

On this edition for Sunday, Oct. 22, President Donald Trump continues to push his tax plan, and Buddhists protest ethnic cleansing in Myanmar. Also, a look at whether nuclear power is the right answer to global warming. Hari Sreenivasan anchors…

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2017 is on track to be a record-setting year for massive natural disasters in the U.S.

By Laura Santhanam

So far, 2017 has produced 15 major U.S. natural disasters and shows no sign of slowing down. Here's a look at these disasters by the numbers.

Why MacArthur 'genius' Kate Orff says designing for nature can protect our cities

By Julia Griffin

Twenty-five years ago, Kate Orff didn’t know what landscape architecture was. Today, her approach to promoting the environment in urban design earned her a 2017 MacArthur “Genius” grant.

U.S. endured a record fire season. What could be done differently?

By Sophie Quinton, Stateline

As the wildfire season lengthens and the fires become larger and more dangerous — a trend driven by a number of factors, including climate change — both state and federal natural resource departments are spending more time and money on…

Tropical forests now emit more carbon than they soak up

By Teresa Carey

Due to human destruction, tropical forests, long considered to be "carbon sinks," now produce more carbon emissions each year than all U.S. cars and trucks combined, according to a study published Thursday in Science.