Tag: climate change
Kansas state Sen. Mike Thompson has a lot to say about climate change. Is it ironic or perhaps poetic justice that his opinions are nothing more than hot air? Speaking to the Kansas Independent Oil…
As the Western U.S. bakes and burns under an unprecedented heat dome, Henri leaves a deluged East Coast staggering after a summer of deadly floods and record-setting tropical storms. Climate scientists say one is due…
WASHINGTON — The month of July was the world’s hottest since measurements began, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Friday. The combined land and ocean-surface temperature worldwide was about 1.67 degrees Fahrenheit above the…
Earth’s climate is getting so hot that temperatures in about a decade will probably blow past a level of warming that world leaders have sought to prevent, according to a report released Monday that the…
GORDON BAY, Ontario — Two weeks ago, one of America’s best-known climate scientists set off onto Ontario’s Lake Joseph for an evening of stargazing, as she had almost every summer of her life. From her…
Almost a year later, we could still smell the stench of charred wood. Our hands came away black from even the slightest contact. What was once a familiar landscape, felt foreign. Instead of walking among…
LOS ANGELES – As the Dixie fire in Butte County balloons in size, the Sugar fire burning in Plumas National Forest north of Sacramento has become the first 100,000-acre fire in California this year. The…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats say they have reached a budget agreement that envisions spending an enormous $3.5 trillion over the coming decade, paving the way for their drive to pour federal resources into climate…
Usually by this time of year our yard is a pale yellow. Just inches below the surface is a limestone shelf. So every time it rains, it greens up fast. Two weeks without rain in…
One of the standard tropes we hear from outsiders about Los Angeles is that it is located in a desert — a dry biome that cannot sustain our millions of people without importing water from…
