Climate

Details: Written by: Sara S. Moore, Ensia

Is Climate Change Driving You To Despair? To maintain our capacity to address climate change, we need to recognize and address the trauma it creates.

Details: Written by: Clark Miller, Arizona State University; et al.

Can Cities Get Smarter About Extreme Weather? Remember the movie “Moneyball”? The Oakland A’s are struggling, financially and on the baseball field.Then they introduce an innovative system for figuring out which players will improve team performance.

Details: Written by: Lindsey Valich-University of Rochester

Ice Cores Indicate Even Higher Methane Emissions Than Previously Believed Humans are probably contributing more methane to the atmosphere through fossil fuel use and extraction than scientists previously believed, report researchers.

Details: Written by: Jeff Mulhollem-Penn State University

Could Climate Change Benefit Some Northeastern Farms? Some aspects of climate change could benefit certain forms of agriculture in the Northeastern United States, new research suggests—though the researchers caution that there are many variables in the future scenario they envision.

Details: Written by: Morgan Sherburne-University Of Michigan

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Microbes in permafrost that eat sun-weakened carbon and convert it into carbon dioxide may be providing a major pathway for the greenhouse gas to enter the atmosphere, new research suggests.

Details: Written by: Bill Moyers Interviews Robert Jay Lifton

robert lipton 10 1 Robert Jay Lifton was born 91 years ago. Living through the catastrophes of the 20^th century — world war, tyrannical regimes, genocide, the nuclear bomb, terrorism — he grappled with their terrible impact on human beings. His work as a psychiatrist, historian and public intellectual forged his reputation as one of the world’s foremost thinkers.

Details: Written by: Keith Randall-Texas A&M University

Why Iron Added Naturally In The Pacific Ocean May Have Slowed Climate Change Researchers have found at least eight occurrences of iron penetrating the Pacific Ocean, with each occurrence likely associated with global climate change over thousands of years.

Details: Written by: Julie Cohen-UC Santa Barbara

What Climate Change Means For Northern, Colder Cities A new study outlines some of the effects that climate change will have on northern cities with cold climates, including in Europe and the North America.

Details: Written by: Joy Murray, University of Sydney

How I Came To Know That I Am A Closet Climate Denier What we believe and how we act don’t always stack up. Recently, in considering what it means to live in a post-truth world, I had cause to examine my understanding of how the world works and my actions on sustainability.

Details: Written by: Jennifer Hamilton, University of Sydney

07 25 solarpunk Solarpunk imagines a sustainable future, and what it might be like to live in it. Solarpunk’s optimism towards the future is the first concept that needs complicating here.

Details: Written by: Adrian Luckman, Swansea University

I've Studied Larsen C And Its Giant Iceberg For Years and It's Not A Simple Story Of Climate Change One of the largest icebergs ever recorded has just broken away from the Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica.

Details: Written by: Blaine Friedlander, Cornell University

Why 1 In 5 People Could Be A Refugee By 2100 In the year 2100, 2 billion people—about one-fifth of the world’s population—could become refugees due to rising ocean levels.

Details: Written by: Luke Walton, University of Warwick

How Electric Cars Can Power Buildings From The Parking Lot Using energy stored in the batteries of electric vehicles to power large buildings not only provides electricity for the building, but also increases the lifespan of the vehicle batteries, new research shows.

Details: Written by: Taylor Kubota, Stanford University

Saving Energy At Home Makes Us Think We Have Done Enough People who report working to save energy in their own lives may be less likely to support government action on energy-use reduction and sustainability, a new study suggests.

Details: Written by: Colin Beavan, YES Magazine

Climate Action Never Did Depended on Trump There are so many ways we can slow and stop the burning of fossil fuels in the United States. But we need to get to work.

Details: Written by: University of California, Davis

6 Ways To Save California’s Trout And Salmon A new report indicates that almost half of native California salmon, steelhead, and trout species are on track to be extinct in the next 50 years.

Details: Written by: Grant Wilson, University of Sheffield and Iain Staffell, Imperial College London

2016 Is The Year Coal Collapsed For Britain's Electricity Generation Socially and politically, 2016 was a momentous year for Britain. It was also a record breaking year for energy and the environment, but thankfully for all the right reasons.

Details: Written by: Danielle Torrent Tucker, Stanford University

Fixing Methane Leaks Wouldn’t Cost That Much The US Environmental Protection Agency recently enacted regulations to reduce methane emissions from oil and natural gas production.

Details: Written by: Sam Solnick, University of Liverpool

Do We Need To Think About Redefining Citizenship? The hottest year on record was 2016. It was also the year scientists advised that Earth’s citizens were now living in the Anthropocene Epoch.

Details: Written by: Andrea Elyse Messer, Penn State

Just One Change Can Make The Entire Food Web Unstable Seeing how a new crop or missing animal affects the food web of the Ancestral Puebloan southwestern United States could shed light on the future of our food.

Details: Written by: Hannah Hickey, University of Washington

How Climate Predictions And Climate Reality Is Starting To Converge Scientists studying climate change have long debated exactly how much hotter Earth will become given certain amounts of greenhouse gas emissions.