effects of global warming
Later fall frost extends allergy season
This summer’s record-breaking heat is lingering into fall: bad news for the 50 million people in the U.S. with allergies to ragweed pollen in the late summer and early fall.
Rising seas swamp Black, Spanish and Indigenous history in Northeast Florida
Lincolnville is one of the historic areas in the nation’s oldest continuously occupied European settlement that are threatened by rising seas caused by temperature increases from fossil fuel pollution.
Why planting trees doesn’t necessarily help fight climate change
Based on an obvious fact – that trees capture carbon dioxide in order to grow – more and more massive reforestation initiatives are flourishing as a way to limit global warming. But the situation is actually more complex
Ginny Catania: Melting ice sheets show need for US government action now
In my Earth course at The University of Texas at Austin, we talk about the scientific, psychological, political, and economic decisions that have led to our current climate crisis. In the course's multiple discussions, the most frequent question I get from my students is, "Why is the government not acting on climate change?"
The coronavirus pandemic versus the climate change emergency
In hot water: warming waters are stressing fish and the fishing industry
Many fish are sensitive to temperature and can survive only in specific temperature ranges.