Published by the Environmental News Service VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada, September 19, 2020 (ENS) – Days after the province of British Columbia announced a new provincial approach to old-growth forests, conservation groups are sounding the alarm on plans to log more than three square kilometres of intact rainforest north of Revelstoke, destroying critical habitat for […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment A Times Magazine series examines how climate change will force millions worldwide to move. Recently, Meridith Kohut photographed people on the front lines of this shift. In America. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/19/insider/climate-migration-photographer.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The first step toward a solid evacuation plan is pulling together all the gear you need, before you need it. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/19/at-home/evacuation-bag.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Heavy downpours can bring destructive mudslides now, or in years to come. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/climate/oregon-rain-fires-landslides.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment At one point, the wildfires that country experienced seemed to fade from our memory. Not anymore. And what I witnessed there has shaped my thoughts on what’s raging here. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/insider/new-york-times-presents-wildfires.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment With fires on the West Coast and floods on the Gulf Coast, relief organizations are providing meals and shelter to devastated communities. If you want to give aid, here are some research pointers. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/17/us/how-to-help.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment A rezoning proposal that has been floating around is finally up for city review. This kind of development is just what New York needs now. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/17/arts/design/17governors-island-climate-change.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Staggering rain totals, fueled by a warming atmosphere that can hold more moisture, are being recorded from the storm. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/16/climate/hurricane-sally-climate-change.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment But the changes could backfire, experts say, pushing more insurers to stop offering coverage in areas where fire risk is rising because of climate change. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/16/climate/california-home-insurance-crisis.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Basic firefighting techniques have changed little in decades — but fires themselves are now changing as the world warms, complicating an already perilous profession. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/climate/firefighting-techniques.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Leather goods made of fungi are versatile and sustainable, a new study finds. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/16/science/fungus-leather.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Extreme temperatures and more severe droughts, the result of human-caused climate change, have created a world that’s ready to burn. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/16/climate/wildfires-globally.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Scientists say that climate change, which has also contributed to the wildfires on the West Coast, helped intensify a storm that is unleashing a deluge in Florida, Alabama and Mississippi. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/us/hurricane-sally.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Scientists know climate change has made storms wetter. There’s evidence that it makes some slower, too. It all adds up to trouble when they hit land. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/climate/hurricane-sally-climate-change.html
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, September 15, 2020 (ENS) – The U.S. and California governments have proposed a settlement with German automaker Daimler AG and its American subsidiary Mercedes-Benz USA that would resolve alleged violations of the Clean Air Act and California law associated with diesel emissions cheating in about 250,000 cars […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment An issue that has always been on the sidelines in presidential campaigns may be coming to the forefront as Joseph Biden seeks to cast climate change, not violence, as the real and immediate threat to the suburbs. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/us/politics/fires-trump-biden-suburbs.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Rush Limbaugh and Tucker Carlson dismiss scientists’ determination that climate change is a key culprit in West Coast wildfires. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/business/media/wildfires-conservative-media.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Barely halfway through what one meteorologist called a “hyperactive” season, there is only one entry left on the 21-name list used for storms. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/climate/hurricane-names-2020.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Countries have made insufficient progress on international goals designed to halt a catastrophic slide, a new report found. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/climate/biodiversity-united-nations-report.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The president visited California after weeks of silence on its wildfires and blamed the crisis only on poor forest management, not climate change. “I don’t think science knows” what is happening, he said. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/14/us/politics/trump-biden-climate-change-fires.html