Weather Whiplash: How Climate Change Killed Thousands of Migratory Birds
Can we help species adapt to the evolving threat of compound climate extremes? When dead birds fall from the sky, you know something is wrong….
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Climate change is altering the chemistry of wine
By Ula Chrobak By Katarina Zimmer Warming, wildfires and unpredictable weather threaten to disrupt the delicate processes that underlie treasured wines. Researchers and producers are…
Warning of Climate Chaos, New 350.org Campaign Demands Fed ‘Stop Fossil Fuel Finance’
The grassroots environmental advocacy group 350.org on Tuesday launched the “Fossil Free Federal Reserve” campaign, demanding the Fed codify its climate responsibility and calling on U.S….
Small climate changes can have devastating local consequences – it happened in the Little Ice Age
The Little Ice Age brought some bitter extremes. Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1565 Dagomar Degroot, Georgetown University In recent weeks, catastrophic floods overwhelmed towns in…
5 things to watch for in the latest IPCC report on climate science
On Aug. 9, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will release its most comprehensive report on the science of climate change since 2013. It…
From Dust Bowl to Climigration
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. Dust Bowl Ballads by Woody Guthrie. Hurricanes and floods in the Southeast. “When the Levee Breaks” written by…