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Ocean advocates are increasingly concerned about climate change
This Yale Climate Connections article discusses why ocean advocates are increasingly concerned about climate change. ‘It’s become an underlying theme in everything we’re doing.’
The world’s oceans are deeply affected by climate change – and vice versa. But until recent years, ocean advocates throughout California had long tackled issues like over-fishing […]
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Farm Bureau shows little concern about climate change ag effects
This Yale Climate Connections article discusses Farm Bureau shows little concern about climate change ag effects. Down on the farm, farmers face challenges of changing climate … but little concern from their national trade group.
Those of us who don’t grow our own food may lose sight of how much […]
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The growing frequency of extreme weather dulls people’s awareness of climate change impacts
This Yale Climate Connections article discusses the growing frequency of extreme weather dulls people’s awareness of climate change impacts, researchers say. Most people normalize extreme weather over just two to eight years, Twitter researchers say.
Moore’s study, published in PNAS in February, found people base their perceptions of normal weather patterns […]
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Climate change is making ground-level ozone pollution worse
This Yale Climate Connections video discusses how climate change is making ground-level ozone pollution worse.
When you check the weather on a sweltering summer day, you may sometimes see an air quality alert, especially if you live in a city. High levels of ozone are often to blame.
Ground level ozone, […]
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More than 100 U.S. cities have pledged to switch to renewable energy
This Yale Climate Connections audio discusses how more than 100 U.S. cities have pledged to switch to renewable energy. People across the country – from coast to coast, and from small towns to big cities – are urging their communities to switch to one hundred percent renewable energy.
Kassie Rohrbach: […]
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More rainfall, a consequence of climate change, expected to make sewage overflows worse
This article discusses how more rainfall, a consequence of climate change, expected to make sewage overflows worse.
Every time there’s a heavy rainfall in Richmond, stormwater mixed with untreated sewage overflows into the James River to keep the sewer system from backing up. In 2018, this happened more than 550 […]
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DeSmog Blog
This week’s discussion includes:
questioning of John Kerry by Congress;
the statement by the West Virginia Development Office that there will be ‘Virtually No Risk of Drilling Restrictions,’;
police enforcement of fracking protests;
the warming of the Arctic;
Amazon employees calling for climate action;
climate research needs to change;
climate heroes;
Florida real estate and sea level rising;
climate change […]
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Study: Potential link between antimicrobial resistance and climate change
This article discusses a study that finds potential link between antimicrobial resistance and climate change.
This involved an observational study among 30 countries with data on the prevalence of carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa (CRPA), Klebsiella pneumoniae (CRKP), multiresistant Escherichia coli (MREC) and Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) over a period of six years.
Lead author of the study, Prof Simone Scheithauer, […]
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Study: How air pollution is doing more than killing us
This article discusses The air we breathe could be changing our behavior in ways we are only just beginning to understand.
In the future, police and crime prevention units may begin to monitor the levels of pollution in their cities, and deploy resources to the areas where pollution is heaviest on […]
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New EPA Rule Poses Greatest Threat to the Clean Water Act in a Generation
This article discusses changes to EPA Clean Water regulations – posing the greatest threat to the Clean Water Act in a generation.
April 15th is circled in red on calendars for tax day—and for the close of the public comment period on the Environmental Protection Agency’s controversial proposal to rescind safeguards […]
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