Clement Bailey didn’t know what to expect when he moved from Flatbush just as the city shut down in March 2020 He’d bought a two-family house in The Hole, a low-lying neighborhood... Read more »
To most people, a solar farm or a geothermal plant is simply a power producer. Scientists and engineers see far more potential. They envision offshore wind turbines capturing and storing carbon beneath... Read more »
This year’s federal budget is characterised by an avalanche of immediate handouts in response to cost-of-living pressures, some sound initiatives and deferral of more fundamental decisions. This is precisely reflected in how the... Read more »
A city proposal to rezone swaths of the Rockaways vulnerable to flooding related to climate change is moving forward in the face of fierce neighborhood opposition over rental apartments that could be... Read more »
Tornadoes tore up homes in New Orleans and its suburbs and were reported in communities from Texas to Mississippi and Alabama as severe storms swept across the South in late March 2022. We asked tornado scientist Ernest Agee to explain what causes tornadoes and... Read more »
Forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued their U.S. spring outlook on March 17, 2022, and their top concern was worsening drought in the West and southern Plains. Several western states have experimented with... Read more »
Droughts in water scarce regions are being aggravated by human-driven climate change. While rainfall reduction is the main driver, increased temperature and evaporation can also play a role. Another influence on drought severity... Read more »
The Spokane City Council is moving forward on its plan to replace all city-owned vehicles with electric models by 2030 as part of an overall strategy to combat climate change. The vote... Read more »
Nearly a quarter of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions come from timber harvesting, agriculture and land-use change, such as clearing forests to make way for farms. Many see carbon markets as key to... Read more »
Major wars are often watershed moments in history. Their outcomes define governance structures, politics and policy directions for decades, even centuries, to come. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine already seems certain to have these kinds... Read more »