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Study: Melting Permafrost Below Arctic Lakes Is Even More Dangerous to the Climate, NASA Warns
This article discusses the impact that melting permafrost below Arctic lakes will have on the global climate, per NASA.
Scientists have worried for years that rising temperatures will free carbon trapped in frozen soil in the Arctic, accelerating the pace of climate change — but now they believe abrupt thawing below […]
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The Trump Administration Will Not Be Happy About the Forest Service’s New Fire Management Strategy
This article discusses the approach being taken by the US Forest Service, emphasizing science and a changing climate.
As wildfires continue to rage across the West during a brutally hot summer, on Thursday the US Forest Service released its new forest fire management strategy that focuses on science and the changing climate. The report comes at the same time […]
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Amid fires and hurricanes, price of climate change begins to hit home
This article discusses how global warming is starting to pack an economic punch.
In California this summer, severe wildfires have intensified a political brawl over who should shoulder the liability. Utility companies, which carry most of the risk if their equipment starts a fire, charge that they could go bankrupt if […]
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DeSmog Blog – This week’s stories
This blog has some interesting articles on climate change and climate change deniers.
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2018 Is Shaping Up to Be the Fourth-Hottest Year. Yet We’re Still Not Prepared for Global Warming.
This article discusses how the planet is heating up, and we are not doing enough to stop it.
This summer of fire and swelter looks a lot like the future that scientists have been warning about in the era of climate change, and it’s revealing in real time how unprepared […]
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Thousands of Island homes could vanish into the rising ocean tide
This article discusses a study of homes in Staten Island, NY, that shows that many will be flooded because of rising seas.
By the end of the century, hundreds of thousands of New York homes will be at risk from tidal flooding, according to a recent study released by the […]
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Study: Humans are pushing the Earth closer to a climate cliff
This article discusses how close we are getting to the point of no return on global warming. A new study examines potential climate feedback loops that could push Earth into a ‘hothouse’ state.
A new paper, just published in the Proceedings of the […]
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Climate change, global travel key to tick diseases in New York, experts says
This article discusses how global warming is affecting ticks. It is not good.
Climate change, globalization and evolution helped ignite the historic spread of dangerous ticks across the Hudson Valley.
That striking analysis came from Cornell University Entomologist Laura Harrington.
The unexpected arrival recently of longhorn, or Asian, ticks […]
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“Mother Nature is very resilient”: A year after Hurricane Harvey, coastal ecosystems are thriving
This article discusses how nature can heal some of humanity’s wounds. Harvey may have ravaged the coast, but the storm is proof of the adaptability of nature, scientists say. The problem will be if we continue to make matters worse.
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Studies: If We Can’t Stop Hothouse Earth, We’d Better Learn to Live on It
This article discusses how humanity will have to adapt to a much hotter earth because of global warming. New research is a warning that we face a desperate global struggle.
Migration is sometimes a blessing and sometimes a curse, but our personal opinions about migrants are becoming irrelevant except […]
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