Mar 07 O No! Climate Change Shortens Canada’s Pond Hockey Season By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy The Rideau Canal Skateway in Ottawa, the world's largest natural frozen skating rink, had to close before March 1 this year, making its skating season a short 28 days; Flickr photo courtesy National Capital Commission The Rideau Canal, which… Continue reading
Mar 06 Plants Boldly Go Where They’ve Never Gone Before By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy The interactive USDA Plant Hardiness Map allows users to view the plants most likely to thrive in any U.S. region. Image by United States Department of Agriculture. Chihuahuan desert plants like autumn sage, hummingbird mints, and desert willow… Continue reading
Feb 21 Climate Expert Assumed False Identity to Obtain Documents Photo by Getty Images. Fallout over internal memos that were leaked from the conservative Heartland Institute rattled the climate world again this week, when a climate researcher confessed to lying in order to obtain and distribute them. Continue reading
Aug 11 Drought Monitor Tracks Extreme Heat Across the Nation EmbedVideo(1224, 482, 304); Record heat and dry conditions continue to plague large parts of the United States this summer. While the south central region of the United States has been hit especially hard, more than 30 percent of… Continue reading
Aug 01 New Widget Tracks Record-Breaking High Temperatures EMBED THIS: » View All High Temperature Records On July 22, thermometers in Newark, N.J., peaked at a staggering 108 degrees,… Continue reading
Jul 28 NewsHour Connect: Heat Wave Imperils Midwest Agriculture By Justin Scuiletti // Temperatures have been rising in the Midwest this summer -- and with them, food prices may also be heading upward. As heat waves have been blanketing much of the nation in temperatures over 100 degrees, agriculture has been… Continue reading
Jul 25 Mongolian Herders See Changes as Temperatures Rise By Lauren Knapp The East Asian nation of Mongolia is home to about 3 million people, half of whom make their living off of livestock. Since 1960, Mongolia's average temperature has increased by 3.85 degrees Fahrenheit -- a change faster than the… Continue reading
Jun 22 Oceans Face Mass Extinctions, New Report Warns By Hari Sreenivasan When 27 marine experts from a half-dozen countries met in England this April for a workshop on the state of the oceans, they knew the news would not be good. But seeing the data on overfishing, acidification, chemical pollution, temperature… Continue reading
Jun 03 Could studying seawater saltiness be key to decoding the climate puzzle? By Jenny Marder A satellite slated to launch into space next week will study the saltiness of the oceans, and, scientists hope, provide a better grasp of extreme weather events. Continue reading
Jan 13 Australia Flooding Threatens Already Sensitive Great Barrier Reef As muddy river water swept through parts of Australia, inundating more than 20,000 homes and claiming at least 15 lives, it also poured into the ocean, where it now threatens one of the country's most precious natural ecosystems:… Continue reading