A UC Merced program that has replaced one-use take-out containers with reusable boxes was featured Wednesday in a video on a popular news website. The campus started its program in … Click to Continue »
Read More »Climate change skeptic nominated for environmental post faces tough questions in hearing
Kathleen Hartnett White, a climate change skeptic and former chairwoman of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, faced tough questions from Democrats on Wednesday during her nomination hearing for a … Click to Continue »
Read More »Environmental consultant, Colombia native began fighting climate change as a child
LOS ANGELES – Aura Vasquez runs a consulting business that bears her name and is one of five commissioners on the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s board. Vasquez, … Click to Continue »
Read More »Dolphin diets show how climate change could alter food chains off the California coast
Scientists studying dolphins dining off the California coastline have found that the marine food web is starting to look a little threadbare. The length of food chains in that web … Click to Continue »
Read More »Civil servants charge Trump is sidelining workers with expertise on climate change and environment
Interior Department manager Joel Clement figured his new bosses in the Trump administration might disapprove of his climate change-focused work protecting Alaskan villages from rising seas. But the reassignment slip … Click to Continue »
Read More »Harvey and Irma can’t be blamed on climate change
In the era of fake news, misinformation tends to spread quickly – especially during a time of crisis. The deceptions that have sprung up in the wake of hurricanes Harvey … Click to Continue »
Read More »Northwest forests will get more and bigger wildfires with climate change
BEACON ROCK STATE PARK, Wash. –– As night fell last Monday in the Columbia River Gorge, the Oregon slopes burned as if carpet-bombed from above. Winds acted like bellows in … Click to Continue »
Read More »Yes: Harvey shows climate change is real
The real scientists, not the fossil fuel industry shills, have been proven correct. Rising atmospheric and sea temperatures brought about by the incessant production of environmentally destructive, heat-trapping greenhouse gases … Click to Continue »
Read More »New climate change report likely to be ignored to death
The following editorial appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Friday, Aug. 18: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration officially confirmed last week that 2016 was the Earth’s hottest year … Click to Continue »
Read More »Author Interview: Climate Change, Forest Mismanagement Fuel ‘Megafire’ Epidemic
Wildfires have always been a part of the Central California landscape. But in recent years blazes like the Detwiler Fire (2017) and the Erskine Fire (2016) have been different. In each case, veteran firefighters who have been on wildland blazes for decades say they saw the fires demonstrating “extreme” behavior …
Read More »Climate change lawsuits face uphill battle, but could have radical implications
Does a trio of new lawsuits aimed at forcing the world’s largest oil companies to pay for the projected effects of rising seas along California’s coast have a fighting chance? … Click to Continue »
Read More »How A Small Group Of Fresnans Got The State To Change Course And Send $70 Million Their Way
It’s not usually easy to get the state of California to quickly adjust how it spends money in places like the Central Valley, especially after the Governor Jerry Brown himself comes to town for a major bill signing. But that’s exactly what a group of activists in Southwest Fresno were …
Read More »Climate change expected to fuel larger forest fires – if it hasn’t already
Global warming will likely heighten the risk of large, more difficult to control wildfires scorching the western United States. It’s the main conclusion of a body of science that, over … Click to Continue »
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