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Global heat stuck on high. Scientists say August was Earth's hottest month they've measured.
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (591+ words) WASHINGTON – Earth cooked to its hottest month on record in August, blowing far past a key climate threshold, due to the dangerous double whammy of human-caused climate change and a supersized El Nino, according to the European climate service Copernicus....
In North Carolina, a race is on to restore critical peatland before it dries up or is destroyed
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (1185+ words) It's an idyllic setting in North Carolina's Inner Banks, where fields of cotton, soybeans and corn stretch for miles, country roads wend through stands of pines and thousands of bird watchers converge to witness the spring migration. But it's what’s…...
Takeaways from AP story on a major effort to restore peatland in North Carolina
3+ day, 15+ hour ago (429+ words) Fifty miles (80 kilometers) of ditches dug decades ago for an abandoned farming venture drained much of the water from thousands of years of accumulated peat — partially decayed organic matter up to 15 feet (4.6 meters) deep — leaving the site vulnerable to drought…...
Nepal's flood disaster and the impact of climate change loom large in the icy shadow of Mont Blanc
3+ day, 20+ hour ago (789+ words) Alex Turnbull And John Leicester CHAMONIX-MONT-BLANC – For centuries, French and Italian mountain communities on the flanks of Western Europe's highest peak have gazed upon seemingly eternal glaciers and snow that gave the colossus its name: Mont Blanc, the white mountain....
Global warming will exceed limit, UN says in a report that maps path to get back below danger zone
1+ week, 3+ day ago (591+ words) MySA...
The world inches toward catastrophic climate events: 'Bigger shocks are on the way"
2+ week, 5+ day ago (1446+ words) NEW YORK – In the opening scene of American writer Kim Stanley Robinson’s “The Ministry for the Future,” a heat wave combined with a breakdown of the electrical grid in India kills 20 million people. The devastation causes the world's nations unite…...
Hungary drained its waters for generations. Now drought is exposing the cost
3+ week, 1+ day ago (1025+ words) Árpád Selmeci said navigating even a small fishing boat on Hungary's third-largest lake is becoming increasingly difficult as the water level has ebbed to around 20 centimeters (8 inches), well below the 150 centimeters (5 feet) optimal for August. Swimming beaches across the lake,…...
Move over bears. Fat Marmot Week puts a spotlight on the alpine rodents
3+ week, 1+ day ago (916+ words) Brittany Peterson And Mead Gruver GOTHIC, Colo. – Last winter was tough for marmots living high in the Colorado mountains, where researchers say two-thirds of one population died while hibernating because of insufficient snow cover. Those that survived are doing well,…...
Takeaways from a story on the US, Australia and others turning to Brazil for rare earth minerals
3+ week, 2+ day ago (303+ words) The interest is already raising environmental concerns for the Amazon and other areas. Here are takeaways from the story: China has nearly half of the world’s reserves and dominates global processing. Brazil has the second-largest reserves and is becoming increasingly…...
Lions and tigers begin a long-awaited rescue from a notorious Argentine zoo
4+ week, 1+ day ago (371+ words) LUJAN – Thirty lions and tigers that were kept alive — barely — for years in cramped concrete cages at a shuttered Argentine zoo began entering jumbo-size transport crates Friday as they embarked on ambitious journeys to wildlife sanctuaries halfway across the world…...