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Report: Abandoning nuclear power plans ‘would push up carbon emissions’
This article discusses how abandoning nuclear power plans ‘would push up carbon emissions’. Report due to be published on Thursday warns of ‘folly of technological tribalism’.
Nuclear power has a downside, though, its waste. Since we currently cannot make the waste safe, what should we do?
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Tropical disease outbreaks are growing threat in Europe as temperatures rise
This article discusses how climate change is affecting the health of people because of increased exposure to disease-carrying bugs. After West Nile virus kills 22 people in heatwave, experts warn of more mosquito and tick-borne diseases due to climate change.
Europe is facing a growing threat of tropical […]
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Norway Has A Radical Approach To Plastic Pollution, And It’s Working
This article discusses Norway’s approach to plastic pollution, one that works. So why isn’t the U.S. following suit?
Because industry has our government officials by the throat.
While other industrialized nations grapple with dangerously problematic plastic consumption, Norway stands out, recycling up to 97 percent of its plastic bottles […]
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Europe’s freak weather, explained
This article discusses how climate change is not only hiking up temperatures, but changing the dynamics of weather itself.
We’ve all become increasingly used to reports of extreme weather over the past few years. But this summer’s raft of dramatic weather events is significant: Not only does it show […]
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Study: Cost of Coastal Flooding in Europe Could Reach $1 Trillion Annually by 2100
This article discusses the financial impact to Europeans from sea level rising and flooding.
Without additional climate change adaptation measures, the annual cost of damage from coastal flooding in Europe could jump from $1.4 billion today to as much as $1 trillion by the end of the century due largely […]
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Are Europe’s Historic Fires Caused By Climate Change?
This article discusses the heat wave toasting Europe in 2018 dried out its foliage. That made everything much more likely to catch fire.
In Greece, the fires came fast and hard, sweeping through towns so quickly that residents were trapped in clouds of smoke. Some people ran toward the ocean, plunging […]
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Can We Blame This Year’s Record-Breaking Heat Waves on Climate Change?
This article describes the evolving field of event attribution science, which is helping us to make sense of the complicated relationship between weather and climate.
WE ARE CURRENTLY in the middle of a scorching hot summer with heat records being set around the world. On July 5, it reached 124 […]
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The European Heat Wave Is Brutal
This article discusses human-caused heat waves in Europe in the summer of 2018.
After forest fires raging since Monday killed at least 74 people in the region just north of Athens, the Greek government declared a state of emergency in the province of Attica today. Caused by especially hot dry summer weather, […]
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Study: England’s salt marshes may start to retreat and disappear in just 20 years
This article discusses how climate change will affect England’s marshland, and thus its wildlife.
Marshlands in the south east of England could start to disappear in a little over 20 years due to rapid rises in sea levels, scientists have warned.
Studying samples from sediments, sea levels over the past 10,000 […]
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Coastal cities are already suffering from “climate gentrification”
This article discusses how climate change and its impact on heat waves and sea level rise, is impacting coastal cities.
Though some may still deny it, climate change is having an effect on our lives. It’s making weather patterns more severe and unpredictable, and in some parts of the world, agricultural […]
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