Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The destruction caused by climate change is directly linked to human activity, primarily burning fossil fuels. There are multiple realistic, tangible solutions that would rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, yet policy addressing anthropogenic climate change remains slow and insufficient.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 11, 2023

A new, first-of-its-kind study suggests that global warming this century will cause more glacial melting and sea level rise than previously thought. Pollution and climate change in India’s Ladakh region are jeopardizing local shepherds’ long-standing, sustainable ways of life.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 22, 2023

The onslaught has led to another round of media headlines and press releases from environmental and public health groups asking whether the nation is at a tipping point of urgency to fight climate change. A Vox headline on the orange skies from Canadian wildfires said, “Wildfire smoke reminded people about climate change.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

A friend asked me if a discussion paper published on Statistics Norway’s website, ‘ To what extent are temperature levels changing due to greenhouse gas emissions? ’, was purposely timed for the next climate summit ( COP28 ). I don’t know the answer to his question. But this discussion paper is problematic for sure.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 7, 2024

They can also shape the public perception and awareness of the most pressing issues of our time, such as the climate crisis. However, a new study by Good Energy and the USC Norman Lear Center has found that most TV and film scripts are ignoring the climate crisis, or failing to address it in a meaningful and realistic way. C by 2030.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2023

Today the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released its annual report on billion-dollar weather and climate-related disasters in the United States, which tells a grimly familiar story. Many of these disasters—including floods, storms, wildfires and droughts—were worsened by climate change. .

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

We want to hear what you—and our water world—most need from Circle of Blue. Email info@circleofblue.org and tell us what you think, and what you’d like to see. Storm Ana serves as a reminder of climate change’s worsening impact on the world’s most vulnerable communities. Along with some surprises. An estimated 4.4

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 1, 2023

The story centers largely on one anecdote from the town of Encintas, California in June when a 15-year-old riding an e-bike was clipped by a van and thrown violently while waiting to turn left on a 55-mile-per-hour road. Obviously, these incidents–and all serious injuries caused by cars colliding with bicyclists–are tragic.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

The current rules require a 20 percent reduction in the CI of transportation fuels by 2030, which the proposed amendments would change to 30 percent in 2030 and 90 percent in 2045. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is set to consider the proposed changes on March 21. What broke the LCFS?

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Climate change and upstream development made the riverfront town of Ottawa, Illinois even more prone to flooding. The town crystallizes difficult truths of climate adaptation: that safety requires constant vigilance and, often, immense personal sacrifice. That would soon change. Photo © Laura Gersony / Circle of Blue.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Recent stories in the New York Times ’ groundwater investigation series have highlighted growing concern for the global loss of groundwater, which has finally begun to raise awareness of the need for critical changes in how we are using our groundwater. Historically in California, unlimited groundwater pumping has been the norm.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Spend a few days at a water conference and you’ll hear a favored metaphor for the environmental changes that are unsettling the planet. If climate change is a shark, attendees will say, then water is the shark’s teeth. Though vivid, the shark metaphor is an inadequate frame for some of 2022’s defining water stories.

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Washington Nature

APRIL 16, 2024

Helens in 1980, which took nearly 60 lives, resulted in history’s largest recorded landslide, altered the landscape, and caused a weeks-long ash storm that touched the Rocky Mountains. We wanted to create a show to hear what people’s experience had been and to talk about their needs,” DeAnne said. This story ties in to townhall.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

At the UN climate conference last week, Colombian officials said they would declare 30 percent of the country as protected land by next year. Climate change is threatening freshwater systems in Colombia, where cloud forests provide 70 percent of the country’s drinking water. I’m Eileen Wray-McCann.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 15, 2022

Parts of Yellowstone National Park are underwater as heavy rain and melting snow cause rivers to overflow. Parts of Yellowstone National Park are underwater as heavy rain and melting snow cause rivers to overflow. Climate-induced disasters like flooding raise the risk of contamination for private well owners in America.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

I followed with great interest the launch of the sixth assessment report Working Group 1 (The Physical Science Basis) from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on August 9th. One argument that has been made on Twitter is that the SPM is meant for decision-makers within climate-related bureaucracy.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 13, 2021

Heavy rain is causing flooding in Turkey. It’s very difficult (at this time) to determine what the levels are going to be next year.” – Keith Koralewski, chief of the Corps of Engineers’ water management team in Buffalo, New York. TODAY’S TOP WATER STORIES, TOLD IN NUMBERS. The latest water level report from the U.S.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 14, 2022

A new climate is re-writing the story of America’s drylands. It amounts to a season of potentially long-lasting change for some of the country’s fastest-growing states and biggest economies. Here are five things to know about how the drought is re-writing the story of America’s drylands. Harsh and unrelenting.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Climate change adaptation refers to our individual and collective ability to cope with Mother Nature’s more intense weather punches in terms of extreme heat, drought, fire, flood and many other place based risks. I must acknowledge upfront that I have not interviewed either of them about their climate change adaptation pessimism.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The Stream will be back soon, bringing you what you need to know about the world’s water. Read the story. . Read the story. . In South Africa, a flood caused a mine dam wall to collapse, killing one person and injuring dozens more. Read the story. Read the story. Read the story. Read the story.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 2, 2021

Decades ago, their own scientists told car companies and oil companies about climate change, information the companies chose to ignore. Those scientists advocated for the truth, and their stories deserve telling. He talked her into studying climate change. What about the oil industry?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

They are living and accessible examples of how far we’ve come, and they are holders of the stories illustrating how far we still need to go. Seeing scientists alongside activists fighting for a safer world made me want to explore ways that I could also help effect change.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 11, 2023

One of the featured speakers in the first webinar-- Re-Imagining A Christian Response To A Changing Climate-- was Dr. Julia O’Brien from the Lancaster Theological Seminary. She shared her expertise as a scholar of the Hebrew Bible [the Old Testament] and what the implications are in reading the text can have on our theology.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 4, 2024

Sometimes telling a story is the best way to explain an idea. This is the story of Allensworth, California, and its wonderful community leaders. That illegal change in the creek also affected local farmers. But how can we do things right? The community, helped by a local farmer, worked hard for two days to undo the diversion.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 17, 2023

During a California State Assembly informational hearing earlier this year, there seemed to be consensus that California’s 19 th century water rights system is not well suited to the social context and climate of the 21st century. Change is necessary and may be coming.  They can be convincing.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Climate catastrophes are threatening the rivers Amazonian Indigenous tribes depend on. Climate change is also warming waters in Greek wetlands, threatening the livelihoods of fishermen. Reuters reports climate change is threatening the livelihoods of farmers in Turkey. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 16, 2022

This week’s episode of What’s Up With Water covers extreme heat and drought across Europe. Welcome to “What’s Up With Water” – your need-to-know news of the world’s water from Circle of Blue. Another heat wave is pressing across the continent, influenced by climate change. Transcript.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 31, 2023

What will this season bring? Depending on how early and strongly an El Niño develops, updated forecasts (usually released throughout the season to account for changes in predicting variables) are likely to change substantially. Another Atlantic hurricane season is upon us starting on June 1 st.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 4, 2023

Ojibwe growers in the Great Plains and Midwest states confront climate change and other human-made challenges during their harvests of sacred wild rice. Most countries have been unable to overcome the impacts of climate change in delivering WASH systems. Christian Thorsberg, Interim Stream Editor.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Three stories in three places around the world about battles fought by young activists. These are the stories told in Dear Future Children, the feature debut of 22-year-old German filmmaker Franz Bohm. With the latter story the one we are most interested in. Fighting climate change in Uganda. By Anders Lorenzen.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Read the full story at Nonprofit Quarterly. Sometimes lost in the attacks on books and libraries is the backdrop of a global climate emergency.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 14, 2022

How climate change and human activity are driving violence between farming and pastoralist communities. Climate change and human activity are driving desertification, a form of land degradation which leads to vegetation loss and fewer water sources. . Land cover change in Yusufari from 1984 to 2021. The result?

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 29, 2023

Coastal communities in southern Senegal are reckoning with environmental change. Rising seas have caused inland flooding and saltwater intrusion, both symptoms of global warming in what is “one of the world’s most vulnerable regions to climate change,” Al Jazeera reports.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Welcome to “What’s Up With Water,” your need-to-know news of the world’s water from Circle of Blue. In the Middle East, water scarcity could cause an international legal confrontation. Water systems were at the center of the story. Transcript. This is Eileen Wray-McCann. State officials in Hawaii are expressing concern.

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Physics World

DECEMBER 11, 2021

As one of the most extreme examples of science denial, McIntyre starts his book, How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason , by describing his visit to the 2018 Flat Earth International Conference in Denver, US.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 24, 2021

Four million people in Lebanon could face a water shortage as a fuel crisis causes rolling blackouts. Both declining rainfall and increasing demand in these countries are causing many rivers, lakes, and wetlands to dry up.” – Charles Iceland, the global director of water at the World Resources Institute. 30 PERCENT . ON THE RADAR.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Fresh is a biweekly newsletter from Circle of Blue that unpacks the biggest international, state, and local policy news stories facing the Great Lakes region today. Officials call for federal intervention to investigate last month’s spill of a cancer-causing chemical into Michigan ’s Huron River. September 6, 2022.

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