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Fearrington Green Scene participant Gus Reed has created a valuable new environmental blog. Check it out, participate, and watch the content as it grows. https://fncenv.blogspot.com/
Earth is now trapping an 'unprecedented' amount of heat, NASA says
The amount of heat Earth traps has roughly doubled since 2005, contributing to more rapidly warming oceans, air and land, according to new research from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. "The magnitude of the increase is unprecedented," said Norman Loeb, a NASA scientist and lead author of the study, which was published this week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
Climate change is bringing back long-lost forms of food poisoning
Fungal toxins known as mycotoxins, including some thought lost to history, are claiming new territory as the Earth warms. Karen Jordan, a North Carolina dairy farmer and practicing veterinarian, knew she had trouble the minute her cows' hair began to stand up on end.
New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receiveour biggest stories as soon as they're published. According to new data from the Rhodium Group analyzed by ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, warming temperatures and changing rainfall will drive agriculture and temperate climates northward, while sea level rise will consume coastlines and dangerous levels of humidity will swamp the Mississippi River valley.
Key quotation: "Scientists warn that 1.7 million unidentified viruses known to infect people are estimated to exist in mammals and water birds. Any one of these may be more disruptive and lethal than COVID-19."Scientists Warn Worse Pandemics Are on the Way if We Don't Protect Nature
"Business as usual will not work. Business as usual right now for pandemics is waiting for them to emerge and hoping for a vaccine. That's not a good strategy. We need to deal with the underlying drivers."Their assessment has been supported recently by others in the scientific community. A study pub...
Severe Weather Preparedness and Recovery During COVID-19 - Convergence of Climate-Health-Vulnerabilities
This post is part of a series on the convergence of COVID-19 and weather/climate. Each post covers only part of the complex, evolving situation we all are trying to prepare for, respond to, and learn from. Therefore, any recommendations should be considered within your individual geographic, economic, and social context.
Why we're heading for a 'climate catastrophe' - BBC Newsnight
Scientists say the world is completely off track. Subscribe to our channel here: https://goo.gl/31Q53F A damning report from the the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has put the world on the path to a 'climate catastrophe' as global warming nears 3C.
Broken Ground Podcast
The Broken Ground team is dedicated to telling the stories of people from all walks of life. We are looking for the stories of Southerners who are stewards of the environment, truth-tellers, and on the front lines fighting to protect our precious water, air, and land. Do you have a story to tell?
Storytelling is fueling climate conversations at Appalachian State University " Yale Climate Connections
How do we respond with our full selves to the enormity of the climate crisis? Educator. Ecologist. Mom. All three of these roles - essential threads woven into who I am in the world - drive me to constantly monitor the latest research and news on climate change.
U.S. Soldiers Falling Ill, Dying in the Heat as Climate Warms
The medics loaded Sgt. Sylvester Cline into an ambulance with the air conditioning running at full blast. It was 4:20 p.m., 20 minutes after he'd been helped off a live-fire training range at Fort Chaffee in Arkansas, where the heat index had reached 103.
Tomorrow's Doctors Will Diagnose the Mental Toll of Climate Change
First-year medical student Anna Goshua was interviewing an emergency room physician in March to learn more about the job when she heard about a patient who had come all the way from Puerto Rico to that ER in Massachusetts for health care. Hurricane Maria had wiped out all prospects of the patient seeking care at home.
Special Briefing: The New Frontiers of Climate Change
This is an OZY Special Briefing, an extension of the Presidential Daily Brief. The Special Briefing tells you what you need to know about an important issue, individual or story that is making news. Each one serves up an interesting selection of facts, opinions, images and videos in order to catch you up and vault you ahead.
Visualizing Just How Much Hotter Climate Change Will Make Your City
The world is getting hotter. July is off to a extremely warm start, while June was the hottest June on record: While the change might seem small (about 1 degree Celsius over the last century), the day-to-day effects will be felt in summer heat, with hotter days and hotter nights.
The Collider
The Collider develops, trains, and funds next-generation entrepreneurs creating breakthrough solutions to help humanity adapt to climate change impacts.
Climate Change: How to Win - North Carolina Climate Solutions Coalition
February 25, 2019 Posted By Joel Segal According to the recent IPCC Report, we have about 12 years to survive civilization-threatening climate change. In short, in order to avoid the earth's temperature rising above 1.5 degrees centigrade, we must rapidly transition to 100% clean renewable energy in all energy sectors as fast as we can.
CitSci2019 Conference Information - Citizen Science Association
Join us March 13-19th in Raleigh, NC - the City of Oaks - to connect with other leaders and learners from many backgrounds. We deepen our own work as we share our diverse perspectives and practices - no matter what we investigate or what we call our efforts.