Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The battle over how to spend recovery funds — to quickly restore the old economy or invest in a greener one — will define the post-pandemic world. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/09/world/europe/will-the-coronavirus-crisis-trump-the-climate-crisis.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Elements of the right have sought to bolster President Trump’s political standing by turning scientific questions into political issues. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/09/us/politics/coronavirus-death-toll-presidential-campaign.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment As the economy melts down, embattled conservatives are testing a political response: saying Democratic climate policies would bring similar pain. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/07/climate/coronavirus-republicans-climate-change.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The amount of atmospheric data routinely gathered by commercial airliners has dropped sharply as a result of the coronavirus, the World Meteorological Organization announced. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/07/climate/coronavirus-weather-monitoring.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment You just need to corral and nurture the stuff, which should be easy for anyone with some time and patience. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/07/climate/how-to-make-yeast.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Electric Hummers and Cybertrucks, as well as the next generation of S.U.V.s, will signal the arrival of the E.V. era in America if they start to sell in big numbers. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/07/business/new-breed-of-pickups-mixes-horsepower-and-battery-power.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment New York City has suspended its composting program because of the coronavirus. Here’s an alternative that’s easy, clean and good for the climate. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/climate/new-york-coronavirus-composting.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Officials are scrambling to find ways to protect residents against dueling threats of extreme heat and the coronavirus. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/climate/coronavirus-climate-change-heat-waves.html
Published by the Environmental News Service PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, May 6, 2020 (ENS) – Scent detection dogs are being trained to discriminate between samples from COVID-19 positive and COVID-19 negative patients under a new research initiative at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Veterinary Medicine, usually called Penn Vet. Preliminary screening of live humans by trained […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Also this week, three states make environmental activism riskier Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/climate/nyt-climate-newsletter-composting-coronavirus.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment On everything from climate change to marijuana, the generational divide that is evident among Democrats is no less present on the other side of the aisle. It’s just less visible. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/us/politics/young-republicans-trump.html
Published by the Environmental News Service GREAT FALLS, Montana, May 5, 2020 (ENS) – Montana landowners, farmers, and conservation groups have won a victory in their effort to protect local groundwater and the climate. A federal judge has ruled that the Bureau of Land Management, BLM, failed to consider risks to Montana’s environment and water […]
Published by the Environmental News Service BRUSSELS, Belgium, May 5, 2020 (ENS) – To battle the deadly coronavirus, six countries, the European Commission and the Bill & Melina Gates Foundation Monday pledged billions in new funding to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. The money will support universal access to a future COVID-19 vaccine and also will […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Join us for a visual tour of the island nation of Madagascar, about 90 percent of whose flora and fauna is found nowhere else on Earth. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/travel/madagascar.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Researchers said that by 2070 extreme heat could encompass a much larger part of Africa, as well as parts of India, the Middle East, South America, Southeast Asia and Australia. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/04/climate/heat-temperatures-climate-change.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Alone in the long Antarctic night, Adm. Richard E. Byrd endured the ultimate in social distancing. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/science/antarctica-byrd-distancing-expedition.html
Published by the Environmental News Service ALBANY, New York, May 4, 2020 (ENS) – Amid the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic that has hit New York harder than any other state, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced that New York’s contact tracing pilot program, with leadership from former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg, will begin […]
Published by the Environmental News Service PARIS, France, May 4, 2020 (ENS) – The global COVID-19 pandemic has massively disrupted the global economy, forcing large parts of the world into confinement and “creating the largest shock to the global energy system in more than seven decades,” the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in an unprecedented […]
Published by the Environmental News Service OLYMPIA, Washington, May 4, 2020 (ENS) – “Murder hornets,” known officially as Asian giant hornets, Vespa mandarinia, have made their first appearance in the United States. These giant stinging insects, the world’s largest species of hornet, are an invasive species and a known predator of honeybees. They were found […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Sightings of the Asian giant hornet have prompted fears that the vicious insect could establish itself in the United States and devastate bee populations. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/02/us/asian-giant-hornet-washington.html