Although growers and vintners in Washington no longer worry about having warm enough temperatures to ripen red grapes for the most expensive wines, they now have added fears from other problems such as wildfires, smoke, sunburned grapes and pests.
Climate change is playing a role in worsening oxygen levels in Pacific Northwest shores. Conditions are causing the deaths of marine creatures, startling scientist and coastal communities whose livelihoods rely on the ocean.
The new U.N. report makes it undeniable that humanity faces an existential challenge in global warming. But is our economic system up to addressing it?
A group led by Los Angeles-based Universal Hydrogen will create a Hydrogen Aviation Test and Service Center at Moses Lake, aiming to test-fly and certify a retrofit conversion of a Dash-8 regional turboprop plane fueled by hydrogen.
While the details continue to emerge and the human cost is still being tallied, we know that hundreds of people lost their lives in the Northwest during the heat wave, one that climate scientists say is a manifestation of climate change.
Ocean ecosystems will have difficulty retaining functional integrity throughout the climate crisis this century, and these ecosystems need the strongest protections we can provide.
