Tag: climate change
Should the US stay in the Paris Agreement? A majority of...
Ed Maibach, George Mason University; Anthony Leiserowitz, Yale University, and Jennifer Marlon, Yale University
In December 2015, officials from nearly every country in...
To curb climate change, we need to protect and expand US...
William Moomaw, Tufts University
Forests have been removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing carbon for more than 300 million years. When...
The extraordinary return of sea otters to Glacier Bay
Perry Williams, Colorado State University and Mevin Hooten, Colorado State University
Human beings have a long history of persecuting apex predators such as...
Are fossil fuel companies telling investors enough about the risks of...
Paul Griffin, University of California, Davis and Amy Myers Jaffe, University of California, Davis
Prior to President Donald Trump taking office, there was a push...
Scientist at work: Tracking muskoxen in a warming Arctic
Joel Berger, Colorado State University
Our Earth has unimaginable diversity, from seascapes 8,000 meters below the ocean’s surface to landscapes 8,000 meters above it. Its...
How can we predict the hottest year on record when weather...
Michael A. Rawlins, University of Massachusetts Amherst
NASA and NOAA jointly reported that 2016 was the warmest year on record. That’s no surprise, as the...
The global impact of air conditioning: big and getting bigger
Lucas Davis, University of California, Berkeley
With a heat wave pushing the heat index well above 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 Celsius) through much of the...
The Paris Agreement:…
The Paris Agreement: the first local global environmental pact
David Cash, University of Massachusetts Boston
Nearly 200 national governments have committed to make cuts in greenhouse...