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Three decades after the Exxon Valdez oil spill, Alaska’s coast faces an even bigger threat – climate change
This High Country News article discusses how, 3 decades after the Exxon Valdez oil spill, Alaska’s coast faces an even bigger threat. Climate change is damaging ecosystems that never had the chance to recover.
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Report: Rising temperatures threaten health of fetuses, researchers say
This article discusses how rising temperatures threaten health of fetuses, researchers say. In a recent article in the Journal of the American Heart Association, an international group of researchers concluded that higher temperatures caused by climate change may result in up to 7,000 additional infants with congenital heart […]
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7 States Rebalance Their Colorado River Use as Global Warming Dries the Region
This article discusses why 7 western states need to change how the use water from the Colorado River as Global Warming dries the region. As major reservoirs shrink with the changing climate, seven states seek a sustainable future for the critical regional water source.
The Colorado River watershed may be […]
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Military’s remote Cold War radars face a new threat: climate change
This article discusses the military’s remote Cold War radars face a new threat: climate change.
Across Alaska, 15 remote radars spin every minute of the day, 365 days a year. Since the Cold War, they’ve monitored the airspace above Alaska and across much of the Bering Sea and Arctic. Even […]
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Alaska’s No Good, Very Dry Winter
This article discusses Alaska’s no good, very dry winter. Our northernmost state is also the most vulnerable to climate change
In mid-November, the sun dipped below the horizon in the Alaskan city of Utqiagvik (formerly Barrow), and it won’t be back until January 23. This solar retreat marks the beginning of a long, dark […]
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Climate change clobbers Colorado and the West, unfurling fire, drought, insects and heat
This article discusses how the West will be affected by climate change – it will not be good. As U.S. government steps out, Colorado scientists and Gov.-elect Jared Polis aim to aid adaptation scramble.
Fires burn more frequently and uncontrollably, ravaging the West’s pines, firs and spruces, destroying lives and buildings.
Multiplying […]
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Another DeSmogBlog Entry
This link discusses:
‘Time is Running Out,’ American Petroleum Institute Chief Said in 1965 Speech on Climate Change
In Southwest Texas, the Fracking Industry Encroaches on Small Towns, Remote Wilderness, and Clear Skies
Pick Your Poison: The Fracking Industry’s Wastewater Injection Well Problem
US Donors Gave $177k to UK […]
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After community uproar in Colorado, company withdraws all Rocky Flats fracking permits
This article discusses a company’s withdrawal of fracking permit requests in the face of significant resistance from local anti-fracking activists. The company wanted to frack for oil and gas close to the former nuclear weapons facility.
In a press release issued this afternoon, Highland Natural Resources has announced that they […]
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California blasts Trump proposal to freeze fuel-efficiency standards as ‘flawed’ and ‘illegal’
This article discusses California’s response to the Trump proposal to freeze fuel-efficiency standards.
California officials on Friday plan to submit a 400-page repudiation of the Trump administration’s proposal to freeze fuel-efficiency standards for the nation’s cars and trucks through 2026, calling it a deeply flawed, disingenuous effort that will harm […]
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In Alaska, everyone’s grappling with climate change
This article discusses how, in Alaska, everyone’s grappling with climate change.
Coastal villages are washing into the Bering Sea, trees are sprouting in the tundra and shipping lanes are opening in an ocean that was once locked in ice. In Alaska, climate change isn’t a distant or abstract concern.
As a climate […]
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