Showing results for: Climate Change (page 148)
How California’s destructive wildfires can affect climate change worldwide
Nicole Karlis
One byproduct of California’s wildfires is far more damaging than greenhouse gases
If facts don’t make you prepare for a hurricane, what does?
Kate Yoder
Bringing up climate change in discussions about preventing disasters might backfire with some people
New study: Antarctica’s tipping point is closer than we thought
Nathanael Johnson
Antarctic ice sheets have been melting rapidly for hundreds of years, longer than scientists previously thought
How Aldous Huxley prophesied the Big Data nightmare
Ramesh Srinivasan
Those in power use mind-melting entertainment to distract us, Huxley said. Have we realized his dystopia?
U.S. green economy growth dwarfs Trump’s highest hopes for the fossil fuel industry
Lucien Georgeson, Mark Maslin
The sun may be setting on the USA’s green economy leadership
Wildfires are both environmental catastrophes and public health problems
Max Moritz, Faith Kearns
Science has a garbage problem. Why aren’t recycling schemes more popular?
Simone Eizagirre
Research institutions need to reflect on their attitudes toward plastic waste and make sustainability a priority
ExxonMobil is still bankrolling climate science deniers
Elliott Negin
The world’s largest oil company says climate change is real, yet continues to finance climate denier groups
These Girl Scouts are saving wild bees, one “hotel” at a time
Rachel Ramirez
The U.S. has more than 4,000 wild bee species, and 40 percent of them are now facing extinction
Justin Trudeau’s political setback: A surprise to the world, but not to Canada
Jeremy Wildeman
For international observers, it may be stunning to see Trudeau's government reduced to a minority
Voting could be the problem with democracy
Bernd Reiter
Randomly selecting people to govern, rather than electing from candidates, might lead to better governments
Why we need to treat wildfire as a public health issue in California
Faith Kearns, Max Moritz
Fires that affect populated areas raise different safety and public health issues than wildfires.
Bernie Sanders defends Tulsi Gabbard against Hillary Clinton’s “outrageous” Russian asset allegation
Shira Tarlo
"It is outrageous for anyone to suggest that Tulsi is a foreign asset," Sanders says
Americans, especially millennials, are embracing plant-based meat products
Sheril Kirshenbaum, Douglas Buhler
New survey findings show that plant-based meat products are winning fans across the U.S.
Students should take mental health days off, a Florida bill proposes
Nicole Karlis
As suicide rates rise, lawmakers want to validate the emotional, psychological, or social struggles students face
“Fear of falling”: How hospitals do even more harm by keeping patients in bed
Melissa Bailey
Hospitals have become so overzealous in fall prevention that they are producing an “epidemic of immobility”
Meat enables a capitalism defined by inequality
Josh Berson
We have it backwards: cheap meat— easy to prepare, eaten on the go — is innate to our unequal system
New study pinpoints the places most at risk on a warming planet
Miyo McGinn
The new model "provides an extremely important tool to inform policy decisions and shape responses"
Beyond those dumb debates: To win, Democrats must reframe the discussion about America’s future
Paul Rosenberg
To win elections and reshape America's future, Democrats must embrace an inclusive, progressive national narrative
A U.N. treaty guarantees youth rights everywhere on Earth — except the U.S.
Jessica Taft
The Convention on the Rights of the Child is empowering children around the world
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