Category: Climate Action & Science

A San Francisco Bay Area highway project is raising questions about what it will take to fortify roads against rising sea levels. Source: Grist.

An Inside Climate News series that showed the often-hidden environmental impacts of China’s trillion-dollar global development push is a finalist for the John B. Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism.

Climate change is supercharging hurricanes, heavy downpours, and wildfires, all of which make landslides more likely. The post The rising risk of landslides appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.

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As governments turn to the ocean for jobs, growth and climate solutions, campaigners at the Our Ocean Conference in Mombasa warned coastal communities must not be left behind The post As blue economy gathers…

Wildfires are tearing through southern France and parts of Spain, Portugal and Greece, forcing thousands of people to evacuate from their homes. The wildfires follow a record-breaking June heat wave across the continent that…

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WILLOW, Alaska—Corey Ercolani pulled a northern pike from a gillnet and slit its belly with a knife. Inside its guts lay fresh evidence of a growing biological crime: a dead juvenile salmon.

This summer has been off to a particularly hot—and deadly—start. In June and early July, severe heat waves blanketed Europe and the United States, exposing millions of people to dangerously high temperatures and humidity.

Welcome to Cited, your essential guide to new climate research. In the news ‘HEAT ALERT’: . Source: Carbon Brief.

And it’s an increasing threat with climate change. The post In flood-prone areas on the Texas-Mexico border, predatory loans are a problem appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.

For the first time in history, Deep Tunnel, Chicago’s massive system of underground tunnels and reservoirs designed to hold flood water, is almost completely full after a weekend of heavy rain. Built over more…