California’s Huge Wildfires Will Likely Have “Serious Health Effects” All Over the West
Mark McKenna/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by the Guardian. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As climate change helps push up the number of wildfires in the western US, communities face losing lives and properties to the flames. But another threat also looms…
Hot Weather Strains the Grid. Here’s How We Could Fix That.
Rodrigo Reyes Marin/AFLO via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Electricity crackled and arced between wires as Los Angeles residents watched, filming with their phones. And then the power died. As temperatures have soared this summer,…
The Trump Administration Just Launched a “Brazen Attack” on Clean Air Standards
The demands showed a marked shift from 2012, when automakers, two of which had just received massive taxpayer-funded federal bailouts, agreed to increase standards after months of negotiations with federal and California regulators. But by 2016, fuel prices had fallen from a record high national average of $3.60 per gallon four years earlier, and Americans…
Scientists Just Announced a Terrifying New Heat Record
Vallauri Nicolas/Maxppp via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by the Guardian. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Last year was the warmest ever recorded on Earth that didn’t feature an El Niño, a periodic climatic event that warms the Pacific Ocean, according to…
The New York Times Fails to Name and Shame Climate Villains
Lisa Blue/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The New York Times Magazine has just published an ambitious and heavily-promoted issue entitled “Losing Earth,” which is entirely devoted to telling a single complicated story: How the world missed its window to address climate change. Nathaniel Rich’s historical narrative looks at the politicians, scientists, public officials,…
This Summer’s Heat Wave Is a Great Example of the Difference Between Weather and Climate
Zhao Hanrong/Xinhua via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Slate. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. We are currently in the middle of a scorching hot summer with heat records being set around the world. On July 5, it reached 124 degrees Fahrenheit in…