Map: Where Climate Change Could Hit Electricity Production
Research out this week maps where power plants around the world are most at risk from higher water temperatures and decreased water availability.
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To Protect Monarch Butterfly, A Plan to Save the Sacred Firs
Mexican scientists are striving to plant oyamel fir trees at higher altitudes in an effort to save the species, as well as its fluttering iconic winter visitor — the migrating monarch butterfly — from the devastating effects of climate change.
What Does Climate Change Look Like?
Extreme weather events will, of course, become more common as the planet warms. But the disruption and suffering of climate change will be largely hidden in the form of events like the war in Syria, the rise of extremists, even civil unrest like that of the “Arab Spring” which we, in the West, view favorably.
The Patience of the Sea
America just now, after all, has more than a little in common with an October day in Ocean City.
The Rapid and Startling Decline Of World’s Vast Boreal Forests
Scientists are becoming increasingly concerned about the fate of the huge boreal forest that spans from Scandinavia to northern Canada.
Welcome To a New Planet
Not so long ago, it was science fiction. Now, it’s hard science — and that should frighten us all.
An Unprecedented Future
I can see The Age of Consequences from my home.
A New Global Tinderbox: The World’s Northern Forests
Rapidly rising temperatures, changes in precipitation, and increased lightning strikes are leading to ever-larger wildfires in the northern forests of Alaska, Canada, and Siberia, with potentially severe ecological consequences.
A One Way Street to Climate Hell
[I]t is virtually certain that our children will live in a 4° World before the century ends, unless greenhouse gas emissions are radically reduced soon.
How Low-Tech Farming Innovations Can Make African Farmers Climate-Resilient
Farmers are observing changes in rainfall, temperature and other patterns in weather that have spurred them into shifting their farming methods.
Love Letter to a Dying Friend: Joshua Tree Country
The effects of Climate Change as witnessed by a writer researching the ecosystem, history and plants of the Mojave Desert.
How Bad Can One Degree Be?
A temperature increase of less than one degree has already disrupted the global climate system, and this is only the beginning. Will the Anthropocene bring a totally new climate regime?