Tag: climate change
Ice storms, January downpours, heavy snow, no snow: Diagnosing ‘warming winter syndrome’
Richard B. (Ricky) Rood, University of Michigan
One of the most robust measures of Earth’s changing climate is that...
Urban agriculture isn’t as climate-friendly as it seems – but these...
Jason Hawes, University of Michigan; Benjamin Goldstein, University of Michigan, and Joshua Newell, University of Michigan
Urban agriculture is...
Old forests are critically important for slowing climate change and merit...
Beverly Law, Oregon State University and William Moomaw, Tufts University
Forests are an essential part of Earth’s operating system....
Why the COP28 climate summit mattered, and what to watch for...
Rachel Kyte, University of Oxford
Reading down the lengthy final agreement of the COP28 United Nations climate conference held...
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
Coast redwood trees are enduring, adaptable marvels in a warming world
Daniel Lewis, California Institute of Technology
Coast redwoods – enormous, spectacular trees, some reaching nearly 400 feet, the tallest...
Paying people to replant tropical forests − and letting them harvest...
Jefferson S. Hall, Smithsonian Institution; Katherine Sinacore, Smithsonian Institution, and Michiel van Breugel, National University of Singapore
Tropical forest...
Arctic Report Card 2023: From wildfires to melting sea ice, the...
Rick Thoman, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Matthew L. Druckenmiller, University of Colorado Boulder, and Twila A. Moon, University of Colorado Boulder