Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Climate change is altering the environment in ways that increase the potential for viruses like Zika. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/20/magazine/why-the-menace-of-mosquitoes-will-only-get-worse.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The asteroid, 2014 JO25, which is approximately 2,000 feet end-to-end, was about 1.1 million miles away when it passed by on Wednesday morning. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/19/science/asteroid-earth-nasa.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment A new study found that a major ocean current is carrying plastic from the North Atlantic to the Greenland and Barents seas, and leaving it there. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/19/climate/arctic-plastics-pollution.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Melting water from one of Canada’s largest glaciers used to flow north, to the Bering Sea. Last spring, it reversed course, a case of what scientists call “river piracy.” Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/17/science/climate-change-glacier-yukon-river.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Just a year after weather patterns were altered worldwide, scientists see signs that more disruption may be brewing. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/13/climate/el-nino-climate-change.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Critics charge the agency’s administrator should have challenged a legal finding that underpinned the Obama climate policies, but he refuses to budge. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/12/climate/scott-pruitt-epa-endangerment-finding.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment A storage freezer in the Canadian Ice Core Archive failed this month, resulting in the loss of millennia-old samples gathered from around the Canadian Arctic. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/11/climate/ice-cores-melted-freezer-alberta-canada.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment A study suggests that as the planet warms toward 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, each degree Celsius of warming will lead to the thawing of 1.5 million square miles of permafrost. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/11/climate/climate-change-warming-permafrost.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Even if Congress votes to keep NASA environmental missions, the nation’s climate monitoring faces challenges, researchers say. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/10/climate/trump-nasa-satellites-global-warming-data.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment President Trump’s proposed cuts in environmental programs go far beyond climate change. They would also affect clean water, law enforcement and pollution cleanup. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/10/climate/trump-epa-budget-cuts.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment While studying an artificial reef made from a sunken ship, researchers found a mollusk that may never have been seen before. It could threaten coral in the Florida Keys. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/06/science/worm-snail-mucus-web-florida-keys-vandenburg.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The decision was cheered by commercial rhino breeders but condemned by animal preservation groups, which warned that it could increase poaching. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/05/world/africa/south-africa-rhinoceros-horns-rhinos.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Scientists compiling a record of the atmosphere based on air trapped in Antarctic ice found that rising carbon dioxide has accelerated plant growth. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/05/science/carbon-dioxide-plant-growth-antarctic-ice.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Companies that have embraced environmental goals are represented on White House councils, offering influence that advocacy groups hope they’ll use. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/30/business/energy-environment/trump-business-climate-policy.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Flanked by coal miners at the Environmental Protection Agency, President Trump signed an order directing the agency to start the process of rewriting the Clean Power Plan. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/28/climate/trump-executive-order-climate-change.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Energy economists say the executive order is likely to fall far short on the president’s goals of increasing the nation’s “energy independence” and restoring lost coal mining jobs. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/27/climate/planned-rollback-of-climate-rules-unlikely-to-achieve-all-trumps-goals.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The expeditions of William Beebe and his coed Department of Tropical Research are remembered at an upcoming show at The Drawing Center in New York. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/27/science/william-beebe-department-of-tropical-research-illustrations.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment If a fusion experiment in France succeeds, it could shape the power plants of the future and contribute greatly to reducing planet-warming emissions. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/27/science/fusion-power-plant-iter-france.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment A naturalist in England found the early-blooming plant had moved up its schedule by nearly two months — a foreboding sign of a warming climate. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/27/science/deadnettle-spring-global-warming-flowers.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The Platte River in Nebraska is an important layover for hundreds of thousands of the birds as they head toward their summer homes. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/24/science/sandhill-cranes-nebraska-platte-river.html?partner=rss&emc=rss