Climate change is causing rapid Arctic warming
NPR reports The Arctic is heating up nearly four times faster than the Earth as a whole, according to new research. The findings are a reminder that the people, plants and animals in polar regions are...
View ArticleHiking the Pacific Crest Trail: How Climate Change Has Transformed the Trek
The New York Times reports The already grueling 2,600-mile hike now includes the added challenges of global warming, which can mean a lack of shade and exposure to smoke and fire. Read more at Hiking...
View ArticleFailure to Slow Warming Will Set Off Climate ‘Tipping Points,’ Scientists Say
The New York Times reports As global warming passes certain limits, dire changes will probably become irreversible, the researchers said, including the loss of polar ice sheets and the death of coral...
View ArticleWest Antarctic’s Thwaites Glacier under threat from warming sea temperatures
YubaNet reports on research from University of Nevada Reno The Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica is eroding back from the ocean and flowing faster with each year, threatening to retreat and collapse...
View ArticleNew Audubon Study: Climate Change Threatens Bird Populations in the National...
Audubon via YubaNet In a survey of all 525 refuges in the National Wildlife Refuge System, scientists with the National Audubon Society have found half of the birds throughout the system will see...
View ArticleAmerica is simmering: US warming 68% faster than rest of the world thanks to...
National Zero reports Climate change is hitting the United States harder and faster than most of the rest of the world, with temperatures increasing 68% faster and the impact being felt in every corner...
View ArticleNative seeds, crucial to deal with climate change, are in short supply
NPR reports In the wake of wildfires, floods and droughts, restoring damaged landscapes and habitats requires native seeds. The U.S. doesn’t have enough, according to a report released Thursday. Read...
View ArticleClimate Change a Mismatch for Breeding Songbirds
UC Davis reports Spring is the sweet spot for breeding songbirds in California’s Central Valley – not too hot, not too wet. But climate change models indicate the region will experience more rainfall...
View ArticleHow our time perception shapes our approach to climate change
NPR reports Most people are focused on the present: today, tomorrow, maybe next year. Fixing your flat tire is more pressing than figuring out if you should use an electric car. Living by the beach is...
View ArticleCalifornia’s Zombie Forests
ScienceDaily reports A fifth of California’s Sierra Nevada conifer forests are stranded in habitats that have grown too warm for them Researchers created maps showing where warmer weather has left...
View ArticleZoom: Risks and Solutions to Climate Change 3/16
Language of the Land: Risks and Solutions to Climate Change March. 16, 2023 at 6-7:30pm, Zoom (registration required) Join Sonoma Land Trust and guest speaker Kathleen Biggins of C-Change Conversations...
View ArticleJust one degree can change a species
from Norwegian SciTech News Even seemingly small changes in the climate can change the number of animals and plants in an area and how species behave, new research shows. Natural history collections...
View ArticleThe Anhinga or ‘Devil Bird’ Lands in New York, With More to Come
The New York Times reports Anhingas, water birds with snakelike necks, have turned up in Prospect Park in Brooklyn and far upstate, a sign of shifting ranges for birds from the South. Read more at The...
View ArticleIndigenous communities adapt as climate change upends ecological calendars...
American Geophysical Union News Release For millennia, Indigenous communities have timed their cultural, agricultural, and spiritual practices around Earth’s regular cycles — wet and dry, hot and cold,...
View ArticleIncredible shrinking lakes: Humans, climate change, diversion costs trillions...
ABC News Climate change ‘s hotter temperatures and society’s diversion of water have been shrinking the world’s lakes by trillions of gallons of water a year since the early 1990s, a new study finds....
View ArticleNature at risk of breakdown if Cop15 pledges not met, world leaders warned
Author of landmark UK review into the economic value of nature joins UN environment chief in calls for ‘action, not just words’ on biodiversity goals — Read on...
View ArticleAntarctica has a sea ice shortfall four times the size of Texas
Axios reports Antarctica is missing over 1 million square miles of floating sea ice, even though it’s currently the dead of winter in the Southern Hemisphere. Why it matters: Scientists don’t know what...
View ArticleRecord Glacial Flooding in Juneau, Alaska
From NPR Since 2011, Juneau, Alaska, has seen glacial outburst flooding called jökulhlaup every summer when an ice dam from a nearby mountain releases water downstream. But this year’s flooding has...
View ArticleTo Stop an Extinction, He’s Flying High, Followed by His Beloved Birds
The New York Times reports Using an ultralight aircraft, Johannes Fritz once taught endangered ibises a migration path over the Alps. Because of climate change, he is now showing them a much longer...
View ArticleWarming decimates Antarctica’s emperor penguin chicks
Phy.org reports Helpless emperor penguin chicks perished at multiple breeding grounds in West Antarctica late last year, drowning or freezing to death when sea ice eroded by global warming gave way...
View ArticleTackling climate change, Himalayan farmers mate glaciers to make glacier babies
NPR reports Residents of Pakistan’s Himalayan region turn to science and folklore, with backing from the U.N. They’re erecting ice towers, harvesting avalanches and performing an ancient glacier...
View ArticleWorld breaches key 1.5C warming mark for record number of days
BBC reports The world is breaching a key warming threshold at a rate that has scientists concerned, a BBC analysis has found. On about a third of days in 2023, the average global temperature was at...
View ArticleHow to save plants from climate change? Just ask them
ScienceDaily reports Climate change and a range of human-caused factors have disrupted the habitats of many California native trees and other plant species. Efforts to protect or relocate plant species...
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Earth shattered global heat record in ’23 and it’s flirting with warming...
AP News reports Earth last year shattered global annual heat records, flirted with the world’s agreed-upon warming threshold and showed more signs of a feverish planet, the European climate agency said...
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