Published by The New York Times Science & Environment In their spare time, two Silicon Valley developers aided conservationists in developing artificial intelligence to help keep track of individual bears. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/11/science/bears-facial-recognition.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment New research suggests that climate change may be causing storms to retain destructive power for longer after moving inland. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/11/climate/hurricanes-climate-change-patterns.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The Energy Star rating is not just for refrigerators; homes are certified for energy efficiency too. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/11/realestate/where-energy-efficient-homes-are-being-built.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The fuel could play an important role in fighting climate change, but it has been slow to gain traction because of high costs. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/11/business/hydrogen-fuel-california.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The lizards have complicated a rule of thumb that in evolution, once you lose a body part, you don’t regain it. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/science/skinks-lizards-legs.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Sources of renewable energy are expected together to be the main generators of electricity by 2025, eclipsing coal, the International Energy Agency said. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/business/renewable-energy-coal.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The arrival of Theta broke the annual record for the number of storms strong enough to be given names. That benchmark was set in 2005, the year Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/09/climate/atlantic-hurricane-season-record.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Scientists can’t say for sure whether global warming is causing more hurricanes, but they are confident that it’s changing the way storms behave. Here’s how. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/climate/climate-change-hurricanes.html
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, November 10, 2020 (ENS) – The largest green film festival in the world and the longest-running film fest in the United States, the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital, DCEFF, has announced its virtual fall showcase starting November 12 and running until November 18. Read the […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment A developer converting a Brutalist office building in New Haven, Conn., into a hotel with net-zero energy standards hopes it will be a model for the industry. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/business/hotel-marcel-energy-efficient.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Michael Kuperberg was told he would no longer oversee the National Climate Assessment. The job is expected to go to a climate-change skeptic, according to people familiar with the changes. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/09/climate/michael-kuperberg-climate-assessment.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment A skull found in a South African cave suggests that the species went through a process of microevolution during a chaotic environmental shift. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/09/science/skull-south-africa-climate-change.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment President-elect Biden can restore many of the 100-plus environmental regulations that President Trump rolled back, but much of the damage to the climate cannot be reversed. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/09/climate/trump-legacy-climate-change.html
Published by the Environmental News Service GENEVA, Switzerland, November 9, 2020 (ENS) – The opportunity has arrived for young film-makers to submit an original short film to the second Health for All Film Festival sponsored by the World Health Organization, WHO. The first Health for All Film Festival in 2019 was a great success, raking in […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Moderates and progressives were mostly united during the campaign. Their deep differences will now present a significant challenge for the president-elect. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/09/us/politics/democratic-party-joe-biden.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The first 100 days of the Biden administration are likely to see a flurry of executive actions on climate change. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/08/climate/biden-climate.html
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, November 8, 2020 (ENS) – Joseph R. Biden Jr. was declared President-elect of the United States on Saturday after slow, meticulous vote-counting that kept the nation on edge for four days. Biden, a Democrat, campaigned on a strong climate restoration platform, starting with bringing the United States […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Eta, the 28th named storm of the Atlantic season, is primed to hit the Florida Keys, possibly as a hurricane, by late Sunday, the National Hurricane Center said. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/08/us/eta-storm-updates.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Here’s an overview on President-elect Biden’s positions on coronavirus, health care, the economy, taxes and climate change. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/article/joe-biden-policies.html
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, November 7, 2020 (ENS) – To the dismay of conservationists, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has opened hunting season on gray wolves across the United States by removing them from the national Endangered Species List. Farmers, cattlemen and ranchers applauded the delisting, but conservationists issued dire […]