The MIT Living Climate Futures Lab (LCFL) centers the human dimensions of climate change, bringing together expertise from across MIT to address one of the world’s biggest challenges. The LCFL has three main goals: “addressing how climate change plays out in everyday life, focusing on community-oriented partnerships, and encouraging cross-disciplinaryContinue Reading
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After migrating to Canada, a journalist reckons with the grief and gratitude of having left. The post ICE raids in Colorado highlight how violent the U.S. has become appeared first on High Country News.Continue Reading
The storm was one of the strongest to ever form in the Atlantic, with winds reaching 185 mph shortly before making landfall in Jamaica.Continue Reading
The state passed the legislation during a veto session after months of lobbying from advocacy groups, but some concerns over planning provisions and consumer costs linger. By Sarah Mattalian Illinois’ General Assembly passed a package of comprehensive energy reforms last week that would help the state reach its clean energyContinue Reading
The Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, or LIHEAP, helps about 6 million U.S. households pay energy bills, buy fuel, or fix broken heaters. The shutdown has stalled funds. (Image credit: Jessica Hill)Continue Reading
Researchers warn Antarctica is undergoing abrupt changes that could trigger global consequences. Melting ice, collapsing ice shelves, and disrupted ocean circulation threaten sea levels, ecosystems, and climate stability. Wildlife such as penguins and krill face growing extinction risks. Scientists stress that only rapid emission reductions can avert irreversible damage., ReadContinue Reading
For the first time in years, New York’s environmental justice advocates say they’ll be working with the city’s government—rather than against it. By Carl David Goette-Luciak As news broke on Tuesday night that Zohran Mamdani had won New York City’s mayoral contest by a decisive margin, advocates for environmental justiceContinue Reading
Researchers discovered fossil evidence showing that spionid worms, parasites of modern oysters, were already infecting bivalves 480 million years ago. High-resolution scans revealed their distinctive question mark-shaped burrows. The finding highlights a parasitic behavior that has remained unchanged for nearly half a billion years., Read MoreContinue Reading
Decades of progress in protecting the planet’s carbon dioxide-busting forests are at risk as the climate crisis continues to accelerate, UN forestry experts said on Wednesday.Continue Reading
To South Sudan, where aid teams warn that an already severe food and nutrition crisis could get worse without urgent humanitarian relief.Continue Reading
After big wins on election night, Democrats will have to decide whether easing requirements in the state’s ambitious climate law will be necessary to maintain Virginia’s status as the “data center capital of the world.” By Charles Paullin RICHMOND, Va.—Democrats gained trifecta control of Virginia state government Tuesday night asContinue Reading
Bill Gates, in a talk at Caltech on Monday night, defended his stance on shifting funds away from climate change mitigation and toward global human health efforts.Continue Reading