CHURCHILL, Manitoba (AP) — Change has broken, reshaped and continues to reshape this remote town where tundra meets forest on the shore of Hudson Bay. The economic base collapsed as the army left the city. Railroads and freight ships—the lifeblood of supplies for a city with no road links to the rest of the world—failed. … Read more
On a 95-degree day this summer, New York City’s Third Avenue Bridge, which connects the Bronx and Manhattan, remained open for hours. As heat and flooding scorched and battered the Midwest, a steel railroad bridge connecting Iowa to South Dakota collapsed under rising water. In Lewiston, Maine, a bridge closed after its deck buckled due … Read more
Sadly, the JOIDES Resolution, also known as the JR, may have sailed for the last time. On August 2, 2024, it docked in Amsterdam, with no clear path to raising the $72 million per year needed to keep the ship afloat. The majority of this funding comes from the U.S. National Science Foundation, which announced … Read more
LAS VEGAS — On a sun-scorched stretch of West Charleston Boulevard, Norm Schilling pulled his truck over to the side of the road to visit his favorite tree. Schilling, a local landscaper who runs a landscaping business and garden shop called Mojave Bloom Nursery, saved this African sumac decades ago after an unusually cold winter … Read more
Climate change has been in the news for over 40 years. It’s usually treated as a scientific or political problem. But social scientists like me have discovered that it’s feelings and values that drive people to make broad, collective change – not graphs, charts or pictures. Polls confirm that a majority of Americans now believe … Read more
NUKU’ALOFA, Tonga (AP) — Highlighting accelerating sea rises, especially in the much more vulnerable Pacific Island states, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued another climate SOS to the world. This time, he said, the initials stand for “save our seas.” The United Nations and the World Meteorological Organization released reports Monday on the increasing sea … Read more
NUKU’ALOFA, Tonga (AP) — Highlighting accelerating sea rises, especially in the much more vulnerable Pacific Island states, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued another climate SOS to the world. This time, he said, the initials stand for “save our seas.” The United Nations and the World Meteorological Organization released reports Monday on the increasing sea … Read more
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica via email. Or follow us on Google News! Climate activists like us are aware of the world’s necessary transition to clean energy sources. We trust that renewables will provide us with sufficient clean energy as systemic change occurs. However, it is much harder to wrap our heads … Read more
After more than a year of record temperatures, the peak of the fire season is approaching across large parts of our green planet. Many ecosystems have evolved to withstand regular fires, and some even thrive on them—there are plants that need flames to reproduce, for example. However, rising global temperatures have created entirely new fire … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — Levena Lindahl closes off entire rooms in the summer, covers windows with blackout curtains and budgets to manage monthly electricity bills for air conditioning. But even then, the heat finds its way inside. “When you walk upstairs, it’s like walking in soup. It’s so hot,” Lindahl said. “When I walk past my … Read more