Thwarted by Senate Republicans on his climate agenda in the previous legislative session, Gov. Tim Walz recently took a different — and needed …
Why Climate Change Threats Don’t Trigger An Immediate Response From Human Brains
NPR’s Ailsa Chang talks with Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert about why the human brain doesn’t respond to threats posed by climate change as …
Arctic threats, water shortages and rising conflicts: Climate change will require military responses
As impacts from climate change grow in the coming years, troops might see beefed up Arctic capabilities, such as icebreaking ships, better …
Get Off the Climate Change Sidelines
On the one hand, according to the Washington Post story, the senior defensive captain for Harvard was sympathetic: “When it comes to climate change …
To Adapt to Climate Change, Vulnerable Areas Need Better Forecasts
Efforts to monitor changes to the climate for adaptation planning are woefully weak worldwide, according to a report by the United Nations and a …
Scientists feared unstoppable emissions from melting permafrost. They may have already started.
This year, the report revealed that the Arctic itself may now be contributing to climate change. That’s because Arctic soil contains a lot of carbon, which …
As US steps back on climate change, will EU and China take the lead?
Perhaps the most important event at the UN climate negotiations in Madrid on Wednesday actually happened 800 miles away in Brussels, the seat of …
The decade we finally woke up to climate change
The physical patterns of climate change are becoming clearer and clearer. … the director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, …
With Climate Change, Evergreen Trees May Begin to Take Over America’s Forests
More carbon in the atmosphere might give evergreens a competitive edge over deciduous trees, or those that lose their leaves, according to new …
Young Republicans Want to Fight Climate Change 30 Years Too Late
There’s a climate “debate” in American politics today the same way there’s a debate between a car and the wall it’s driving toward. On one hand you …