By Matthew Brown And Katy Daigle 26 June 2017 BEIJING (AP) – The world’s biggest coal users – China, the United States, and India – have boosted coal mining in 2017, in an abrupt departure from last year’s record global decline for the heavily polluting fuel and a setback to efforts to rein in climate […]
BY Tristan Baurick 20 April 2017 (The Times-Picayune) – Gov. John Bel Edwards on Wednesday (April 19) officially declared Louisiana’s coastal land loss an emergency, a move he hopes will expedite a host of restoration projects mired in federal permitting. “The Louisiana coast is in a state of crisis that demands immediate and urgent action […]
By Philip B. Duffy 6 July 2017 (WHRC) – This opinion piece by WHRC President Dr. Philip B. Duffy was published in the Newport (R.I.) Daily News on 3 July 2017. Dr. Duffy was responding to an op-Ed published in the same paper by Princeton physicist William Happer, who claimed that climate change is “a […]
By Scott Waldman 27 June 2017 (Climatewire) – Climate change is driving up the number of forest fires ignited by lightning, and it’s pushing them farther north, to the edges of the Arctic tundra, researchers say. Lightning-caused fires have risen 2 to 5 percent a year for the last four decades, according to a paper […]
PHOENIX, 8 July 2017 (Associated Press) – Phoenix has broken a 112-year-old record for heat.National Weather Service meteorologists say the Arizona city had a high of 118 degrees on Friday.That broke the previous mark of 115 degrees dating back to 1905.Meteorologists say the normal high temperature for July 7 in Phoenix is 107 degrees.So far […]
By Kathleen Maclay 29 June 2017 (Berkeley News) – The poorest third of U.S. counties will likely lose up to 20 percent of their incomes, and regions such as the Pacific Northwest and New England will gain economically over the Gulf and Southern states, if climate change continues unmitigated through the end of the century, […]
By Robbie Whelan 5 July 2017 CHIHUAHUA, Mexico (The Wall Street Journal) – On the morning of March 23, gunmen here fired eight shots into a cherry-red Renault Duster SUV, killing newspaper reporter Miroslava Breach as she waited outside her home to drive her 14-year-old son, Carlos, to school.A hand-painted sign at the scene said […]
By Alan Jude Ryland 5 July 2017 (Second Nexus) – New legislation allows anyone in Florida to challenge what’s taught in public schools. The measure, officially called Florida House Bill 989, went into effect Saturday. Representative Byron Donalds (R-Naples) introduced the bill in February. Governor Rick Scott signed it into law after it passed the […]
By Pallab Ghosh 2 July 2017 (BBC News) – Stephen Hawking says that US President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris climate agreement could lead to irreversible climate change. Prof Hawking said the action could put Earth onto a path that turns it into a hothouse planet like Venus.He also feared aggression […]
JUNEAU, Alaska, 3 July 2017 (The Associated Press) – Strange sea creatures that resemble large pink thimbles are showing up on the coast of southeast Alaska for the first time after making their way north along the West Coast for the last few years.Scientists say the creatures are pyrosomes, which are tropical, filter-feeding spineless creatures […]
