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Climate change and decline in biodiversity are the two biggest environmental crises facing humanity today, but predicting how they will play together is tricky. Ideally, scientists would study how life on Earth responds to sharp changes in previous climate change, but the fossil record of most species is spots. But the fossils of foraminifera are an exception: they are everywhere. These single-celled marine organisms are encased in shells that are usually made of calcium carbonate, which is the main component of chalk (the main component of chalk (the shells of foraminifera and other organisms that rain under the sea after…
President Donald Trump signed a memorandum on Thursday to revoke executive action by former President Joe Biden in Washington state with the Lower Snake River Dam, a move that advocates for their continued action while environmentalists are being criticized. [emphasis, links added] Four Lower Snake River Dams are located in eastern Washington and were built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the 1960s and 1970s, which also operate them. The dam produces an average of about 1,000 megawatts of electricity. For years, Washington has been politically debated whether the Lower Snake River Dam should be destroyed or demolished…
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Transcript: At a cooking workshop in Richmond, California, participants learned to make mushroom tacos, cauliflower ceviche and other vegetarian dishes. McClellan: “They were talking about them never thought it would be so good, they never thought about doing it…but they ended up trying it and enjoying it, they wanted to go home and make a home for their family.” David McClellan is the vegetarian RX program of Urban Tilth, a Richmond-based nonprofit. The program distributes free locally grown produce to most black and Latin American residents in the city, where fresh, healthy food is rarely purchased. It offers cooking demonstrations…
In May 2025, it is the second Woodster on Earth in the global weather data of the NOAA's National Center for Environmental Information (NOAA) reported on June 12. May 2025 is the second month of the past 23 months, with the global average air temperature being no According to European Copernicus climate change services, over 1.5 degrees Celsius is higher than the industrialization level. This level has been exceeded before the last 23 months, just five months (January to March 2016 and January to February 2020). Figure 1. The second warmth in the world has deviated from the average temperature…
Transcript: Wisconsin's new fire truck Madison seems to be like any other fire truck – sparkling with a crying sirens. However, unlike most other fire trucks, this is run with electricity rather than diesel fuel. Wong: “From the outside, if you don’t know it’s electricity or electricity, you won’t really know.” That was Matt Huang from the Madison Fire Department. The department began testing a prototype electric fire truck a few years ago and put the new production truck into service in February. Huang said this seamlessly fits their operations. Wong: “Even on the prototype version in E-Driving mode, we…
In order to effectively use advocacy as science, influential governments and academic institutions must first be captured. This disturbing script is exactly what climate alarms have executed in recent decades, turning respected public institutions into advocacy-driven money-cows. [emphasis, links added] By converting objective scientific investigations into politically motivated fears, these institutions effectively gain endless taxpayer funds. When NASA's Goddard Space Research Institute (GISS) was founded in 1961, it was committed to rigorous, unbiased research on planetary atmospheres and astrophysics. Its founder Robert Jastrow envisions a scientific power that objectively and reliably contributes to the exploration of space and environment in…
One of our readers asked us: Will girls and boys increase or decrease cyclone molecules? To be able to give him an answer, we asked Dr. Raphael Medes Tejida, a climatologist and professor at the University of Puerto Rico for help. He explained how these meteorological phenomena affect the cyclone. Repost this storyRepost our articles for free under the Creative Commons license, online or in print. Source link
Transcript: A 60-acre forest called Trelease Woods has grown for centuries near the University of Illinois urbana-Champaign – a 60-acre forest called Trelease Woods has grown for centuries – largely undisturbed. But as the climate warms, forests are changing. Professor Emerita Carol Augspurger has monitored over 60 trees and plants for decades and noted when buds form in spring and when leaves change color and fall in autumn. She and David Zaya, a natural history survey of Illinois, recently analyzed nearly 30 years of data. Zaya: “The first thing we want to see is whether the timing of spring and…
When Republican lawmakers believe that the fate of the U.S. Senate falls in the hands of the U.S. Senate because Republican lawmakers believe that partly or completely abolish the Biden-era clean energy incentives. The version of the House narrowly passed budget bill in mid-May will revoke the clean energy tax credit for individuals and businesses enacted as part of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, which aims to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in modernizing U.S. energy and combat climate change. The proposed abolition threatens new battery technology and emerging advances in electric vehicles and will slow down the adoption…