Climate Change

As global temperatures rise, cities face the challenge of keeping their infrastructure and residents cool. Chicago is tackling the problem with a green design makeover that includes 369 green roofs covering 5.5 million square feet -- more than any other…

Sep 20

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Arctic Sea Ice Melts to Record-Breaking Low

// Arctic sea ice melted to 1.32 million square miles this September -- an unprecedented low and a sharp drop from the 2.59 million square mile average for this time of year. It also marks the greatest Arctic ice melt…

Anything dealing with climate change is bound to provoke an argument. And our story on Berkeley physicist Richard Muller's recent conversion to a believer in man-made global warming, which he made in an op-ed in the New York Times, certainly…

Sep 18

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Update: 3 p.m. ET | If the amount of personal email that hit my inbox last night or the comment thread on Spencer Michel's blog post featuring Anthony Watts is any indication, many of you care in some way, shape,…

Sep 13

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Are Hurricanes Linked to Climate Change?

This polar map shows hurricane patterns since 1851. Image by John Nelson/IDVsolutions The image above uses NASA and NOAA data to show the location and intensity of every hurricane and tropical storm recorded since 1851.