Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change
New York Times–Jul 31, 2018
With support from the Pulitzer Center, this two-part article is based on … The climatescientist James Hansen has called two-degree warming “a …
Adding Up the Cost of Climate Change in Lost Lives
Wall Street Journal–Aug 1, 2018
The usual caveat applies: no single event can be specifically tied to climate change. Nonetheless, it offers an unsettling preview of what may be …
Americans Think NASA Should Focus on Climate Change. Trump …
Bloomberg–Aug 1, 2018
Observing the climate should be NASA’s “top priority,” according to 43 percent of those surveyed, who chose from six possible options.
Droughts, heatwaves and floods: How to tell when climate change is to …
Nature.com–Jul 30, 2018
Weather forecasters will soon provide instant assessments of global warming’s influence on extreme events.
New Mexico Research Site Gets US Grant for Climate Research
U.S. News & World Report–5 hours ago
A $6.4 million federal grant for a New Mexico research project will provide $6.4 million for work looking at how climate change affects arid land …
Climate Extremes and Global Health
Foreign Affairs–Jul 31, 2018
The last few years have brought a string of terrible news about the global climate. Politically, the 2015 Paris agreement on climate change is …
US Supreme Court Refuses to Halt Teenagers’ Climate Lawsuit
Bloomberg–Jul 30, 2018
The U.S. Supreme Court refused to halt a novel and sweeping lawsuit pressed by children and teenagers seeking to force the federal …
Kink in the Jet Stream and Climate Change Spur Extreme Weather
Bloomberg–Jul 25, 2018
Kinked, buckled, stuck or stalled, it doesn’t matter how you describe it, the jet stream — the ribbon of wind that circles the Earth — is doing …
Warmer Soil Releasing More Carbon, Worsening Climate Change
U.S. News & World Report–18 hours ago
This uncontrolled cycle speeds up and amplifies climate change, said Jerry Melillo of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Massachusetts, who …
Earth.com
Climate change-driven droughts are getting hotter, UCI study finds
Newswise (press release)–16 hours ago
Newswise — Irvine, Calif., Aug. 1, 2018 – Dry months are getting hotter in large parts of the United States, another sign that human-caused …
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