Critics Say Alabama’s $5 Billion Highway Project Is a ‘Road to Nowhere’, but the State Is…
5:00am By By Dennis PillionBIRMINGHAM, Ala.—Driving north on Alabama Highway 79 in late October offers a stunning vista of the rolling Appalachian foothills. Splashes of yellow, orange and red have emerged among the green, tree-covered hillsides as fall arrives outside Alabama’s…New Reports Ahead of COP29 Show The World Is Spinning Its Wheels on Climate Action
Mon 4:04pm By By Bob BerwynA trio of reports released ahead of next month’s COP29 climate conference in Azerbaijan all show that the existing national policies to cut greenhouse gas emissions under the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement will heat the planet by close to 3 degrees Celsius by…How Johns Hopkins Scientists and Neighborhood Groups Model Climate Change in Baltimore
Mon 5:00am By By Aman AzharIt was a no brainer, Ben Zaitchik thought, standing outside in hiking shorts and a t-shirt. What else to wear on a day when the temperature was set to soar above 90 degrees? The air felt stuffy on this muggy afternoon in late August. A professor and climate…Watching Over a Fragile Desert From the Skies
Mon 4:55am By By Humberto BasilioIn 2009, South American deserts stretching from Peru’s parched coast to the wilds of Patagonia became a playground for the global off-road racing elite. Each year since, thousands of riders on motorcycles, buggies and jeeps have torn through the dunes,…Antarctica’s Fate Will Impact the World. Is It Time to Give The Region a Voice at Climate Talks?
Sun 5:00am By By Katie SurmaWith the Earth at its most degraded point in recorded history, and humans making insufficient efforts to prevent the destruction of ecosystems, a growing number of scientists, lawyers and activists are proposing a potential solution that challenges more than…Endangered Bats Have Slowed, But Not Stopped, a Waterfront Mega-Development in Charleston. Could…
Sun 4:55am By By Daniel ShailerFlooding the Market: Third in a series about climate change and coastal threats in South Carolina. In March 2023, the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) uplisted northern long-eared bats from threatened to endangered, citing one specific disease and habitat…A Rural Arizona Community May Soon Have a State Government Fix For Its Drying Wells
Sat 5:00am By By Wyatt MyskowLisa Glenn has seen what happens when a rural desert community’s groundwater aquifer is pushed past its breaking point. For 57 years, she’s lived in Willcox, Arizona, where farms dot the landscape. But over the past decade, as new industrial farming…The Depths of Their Discontent: Young Americans Are Distraught Over Climate Change
Sat 4:55am By By Nina DietzA new study delving the emotional and psychological impact of climate change on 16,000 young Americans provides crucial empirical evidence for what until now “we’ve been relying on our intuition to tell us,” the study’s first author says. A clear…How Fracking Technology Could Drive a Clean-Energy Boom
Sat 4:50am By Interview by Paloma Beltran, Living on EarthFrom our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Paloma Beltran with Jamie Beard, the founder of Project InnerSpace, which aims to kickstart geothermal power generation. Earth’s crust holds an…Pennsylvania Lags Many Other States in Adoption of Renewable Energy, Report Says
Fri 5:53pm By By Jon HurdlePennsylvania is making the transition to solar and wind energy at a slower pace than many other states and is nearly dead last on energy-efficiency growth, according to a new survey. Federal data analyzed by the nonprofit Environment America found that…
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