Election confusion: more powerful than cyberattacks. Source: Meritalk On November 5th, 2019, New York City residents will find ranked choice voting as Question 1 on their city election ballots. For many New Yorkers, this will come as a surprise. Despite signs posted in subways and at bus stops, the question […]
Rural towns that need to incorporate climate science into city plans often lack the budgets to do so. Image: Shutterstock In September of 2015, President Obama chartered the creation of a committee dedicated to translating the findings of the periodic National Climate Assessment into to practical advice so that towns, […]
Itaipú Dam. Image credit: Escuela de Organización Industrial Hydropower – the energy generated from flowing water – is renewable and emits relatively low amounts of carbon dioxide. Many see the expansion of hydropower as a way to offset fossil fuel-derived energy. In keeping with its green nature, environmental regulations exist […]
Image credit: Matt Rath/Chesapeake Bay Program For all the headlines it generates, climate change can still feel to many like a vague and distant threat, if not an outright straw man. Coastal communities, however, rarely enjoy such an advantage. A new study published Feb. 15 in the journal Science Advances, measures […]
Peru’s drying Rimac River. Photo by Jordan Kraft. While a polar vortex provides much of the northern hemisphere with a global warming paradox to mull over, another climate paradox plays out across the globe: despite intensifying rainfall, which is attributed to global warming, freshwater supplies are shrinking. Professor Ashish Sharma and […]
Photo source: https://www.orangeville.com/news-story/7959809-here-s-the-18-point-roadside-inspection-orangeville-police-will-follow-to-determine-whether-motorists-may-be-impaired-by-drugs/ Debates over political responses to climate change tend to concern large effects, such as preventing the submersion of large and heavily populated coastal cities and preventing the loss of economically vital cropland. A group of researchers from Harvard and MIT, however, have noticed at least two effects […]