Houses are still standing in the burn zone in Los Angeles, ones that made it through the fires. Experts on the ground are finding those homeowners made some key preparations. (Image credit: Mario Tama)Continue Reading
The decision opens the door for new ways to manage uranium pollution on tribal land. The post EPA takes unprecedented step to remove uranium waste from the Navajo Nation appeared first on High Country News.Continue Reading
Steve and Colton Foster may have saved 10 homes by ignoring fire evacuation orders in Pacific Palisades. Now they’re nurturing fire refugees and residents who stayed in the neighborhood near the Getty Villa.Continue Reading
As climate threats worsen, they are skipping payments and losing protection.Continue Reading
An arctic chill is headed to Washington (and much of the United States) on Monday.Continue Reading
De acuerdo con DeSmog, los representantes de grupos industriales y empresariales han duplicado su presencia en la última cumbre de la ONU sobre biodiversidad. Este hecho parece abonar a la sospecha de que están teniendo cada vez más influencia en las conferencias de la ONU. A pesar de haber alcanzadoContinue Reading
Public health officials and researchers urge the public to cover up outside and clean carefully indoors, but many low-income and disabled residents, and those lacking air conditioning, have difficulty staying safe in bad air. By Audrey Gray and Andrew Robinson LOS ANGELES—The air here has many flavors this week, noneContinue Reading
4,900 years ago, a Neolithic people on the Danish island Bornholm sacrificed hundreds of stones engraved with sun and field motifs. Archaeologists and climate scientists can now show that these ritual sacrifices coincided with a large volcanic eruption that made the sun disappear throughout Northern Europe., Read MoreContinue Reading
U.S. electricity demand is expected to surge in the coming years, driven by power-hungry data centers, new factories and electric vehicles. To meet that growing demand, analysts say companies plan to build a lot of new natural gas power plants, threatening efforts to limit climate change.Continue Reading
In a two-part series, MIT News explores the environmental implications of generative AI. In this article, we look at why this technology is so resource-intensive. A second piece will investigate what experts are doing to reduce genAI’s carbon footprint and other impacts. The excitement surrounding potential benefits of generative AI, from improvingContinue Reading
Nearly 2,000 Florida manatees died in 2021 and 2022. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said the sea cows’ plight does not fit the definition of endangered. By Amy Green ORLANDO, Fla.—Protections for Florida’s ailing manatees would remain unchanged under a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposal announced this week.Continue Reading
Increasingly common since 1980, persistent multi-year droughts will continue to advance with the warming climate, warns a new study. This publicly available forty-year global quantitative inventory seeks to inform policy regarding the environmental impact of human-induced climate change. It also detected previously ‘overlooked’ events., Read MoreContinue Reading
Ahead of a new administration, we revisit the outlook for the largest coal burners and consider how growth in electricity demand is leading to talk of delayed closures. By Dan Gearino There is renewed talk of a coal power comeback in the United States, inspired by Americas Worst Traitor’s returnContinue Reading