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UN Chief's SOS: 'The Ocean Is Overflowing'

Speaking from Tonga, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has a stark warning about climate change

(Newser) - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres wants the bucks coming in to fight climate change to go way up in order to make sea levels go down, and he says there's no time to waste. Speaking from Tonga, Guterres called sea-level rise a "worldwide catastrophe" that's specifically endangering Pacific...

In the Future, Cows May Take a Pill to Help the Climate
Scientists Attempting
to Rejigger Cow Stomachs
longform
Aug 26, 2024 9:19 AM CDT

Scientists Attempting to Rejigger Cow Stomachs

Washington Post reports on a gene-editing experiment designed to reduce methane emissions

(Newser) - "It's completely out of the box," University of California at Davis professor Ermias Kebreab tells the Washington Post . "Nobody has done it before." The reference is to an attempt to change the stomachs of cows through gene editing to make them belch less methane, a...

Data Centers Are Wasting Energy on Our Old Memes

An estimated 68% of data is never used again, but it's still sucking up energy

(Newser) - Memes, reply-all emails, and the thousands of photos on our phones typically have our attention momentarily, and are then quickly forgotten. But energy-wise, they very much go on. That's what Ian Hodgkinson, a professor of strategy at Loughborough University, argues to the Guardian . His recent studies on junk data...

Video Captures Outer Banks Home Collapsing Into Ocean

As Hurricane Ernesto brought strong waves to the shore, beach house went down

(Newser) - Homes are collapsing into the ocean in North Carolina at an alarming rate, and the latest dramatic incident was caught on video. A beach house in the Outer Banks community of Rodanthe on Hatteras Island was knocked off its raised wooden foundation as waves, strengthened by Hurricane Ernesto, pounded the...

Las Vegas Nights Are Becoming Dangerously Hot

New York Times explores what's going on

(Newser) - New York is known as the city that never sleeps, but extreme heat is making that title more accurate in Las Vegas. In an interactive story, the New York Times explores how temperatures at night aren't dropping as much in the past—during a record stretch in July, overnight...

Earth's 13-Month Streak of Record-Setting Heat Just Ended

Though this changes nothing when it comes to action needed on climate change, scientists say

(Newser) - Earth's string of 13 straight months with a new average heat record came to an end this past July as the natural El Nino climate pattern ebbed, the European climate agency Copernicus announced Wednesday. But July 2024 's average heat just missed surpassing the July of a year...

Study Warns We Could 'Witness Demise of Natural Wonder'

Authors say record-high ocean heat is putting Great Barrier Reef in danger

(Newser) - In a sea of grim stories about the health and fate of the Great Barrier Reef comes one of the grimmest: "Highest ocean heat in four centuries places Great Barrier Reef in danger." That's the title of a study published Tuesday in Nature . Researchers say they reconstructed...

Airline: Increased Turbulence Means No More Noodles

For economy class passengers, that is

(Newser) - Inflight noodles on Korean Air flights are the latest casualty of increasing turbulence. The airline says it will stop serving instant noodles in economy class after August 15 because "burn incidents occur frequently due to hot water," the BBC reports. "In economy class, flight attendants must move...

Sunday Was the Hottest Day on Earth
Sunday Was the
Hottest Day on Earth
Jul 23, 2024 2:23 PM CDT

Sunday Was the Hottest Day on Earth

Scientists fear the worst is yet to come

(Newser) - Sunday wasn't just hot, it was the hottest day in the planet's recorded history, reports Reuters . Details:
  • The new mark: The average temperature hit 17.09 degrees Celsius, or 62.76 degrees Fahrenheit, as recorded by the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service, per CNN . That eclipses
...

Time Is Running Out for Tribe Facing a Rising Ocean

Quinault Nation has been working to relocate to higher ground for at least a decade

(Newser) - Standing water lies beneath the home Sonny Curley shares with his parents and three children on the Quinault reservation a few steps from the Pacific Ocean in Washington's Olympic Peninsula. The back deck is rotting, and black mold speckles the walls inside, leaving the 46-year-old fisherman feeling drained if...

Climate Change Is Messing With More Than Just Glaciers

Melting ice is slowing Earth's spin, tilting its axis

(Newser) - Not all effects of climate change are visible to the naked eye. According to new research, the melting of glaciers and polar ice sheets through global warming is messing with the Earth's axis of rotation and even its core. "You can add Earth's rotation to this list...

Body of American Lost in 2002 Avalanche Is Found

Ice melt exposed the body of climber William Stampfl in the Peruvian Andes

(Newser) - The remains of an American who lost his life climbing in Peru 22 years ago have been found. William Stampfl, 59, was on the 22,000-foot Huascaran in June 2002 when he was buried in an avalanche; search and rescue efforts were unable to locate him at the time. CBS...

5 Famous US Destinations at Risk From Climate Change

USA Today chronicles how a warming planet threatens iconic locations

(Newser) - As cities on the East Coast sink millimeter by millimeter due to climate change, experts are scrambling to understand what the future holds for land-lovers. USA Today takes a look at some of the iconic coastal attractions in the US that are already being affected by unprecedented flooding, landslides, and...

Alaskan Glaciers Are Melting at &#39;Incredibly Worrying&#39; Pace
Amid Alaskan Glaciers,
a Possible 'Death Spiral'
NEW STUDY
Jul 3, 2024 10:25 AM CDT

Amid Alaskan Glaciers, a Possible 'Death Spiral'

Researchers say Juneau Ice Field saw ice melt in 2010 to 2019 at double the rate it had previously

(Newser) - Since the late 1700s, the Juneau Ice Field, interconnected glaciers that stretch across 1,500 square miles of Alaska and British Columbia, has lost about a quarter of its volume. But it's an "incredibly worrying" phenomenon that took place between 2010 and 2020 that has scientists especially concerned:...

In a Big First, Biden Proposes Heat Rule

It would be the first major federal safety standard addressing heat

(Newser) - President Biden on Tuesday proposed a new rule to address excessive heat in the workplace, warning—as tens of millions of people in the US are under heat advisories—that high temperatures are the country's leading weather-related killer. If finalized, the measure would protect an estimated 36 million US...

Tractor Supply Dumps DEI Efforts After Right-Wing Campaign

Rural retailer nixes DEI roles and cancels Pride events, voter drives, carbon emissions goals

(Newser) - Just last month, Hal Lawton, president and CEO of Tractor Supply, boasted about the company's "very consistent" approach to DEI (diversity, equity, inclusion) and environmental efforts, noting that, despite conservative backlash against similar initiatives elsewhere, "We haven't walked away from anything." Now, a "stunning...

Plane Emissions Were Nothing Compared to Canada Wildfires
Canada Wildfires Were
an Emissions Firehose
NEW STUDY
Jun 30, 2024 7:31 AM CDT

Canada Wildfires Were an Emissions Firehose

Fires produced more carbon dioxide than airplanes, India's burning of fossil fuels: report

(Newser) - The devastating Canadian wildfires of last year were fueled by climate change and fueled climate change right back. The fires emitted more heat-trapping carbon dioxide than did India in burning fossil fuels, according to a study update published Thursday in Global Change Biology . "The update is not peer-reviewed, but...

Advocates, Experts See Change After Fall of Chevron Doctrine

Congressional Republicans make plans, but power over environmental policy will go to judiciary

(Newser) - The Supreme Court's ruling overturning the Chevron doctrine , a decision that curbs agencies' power to impose regulations to achieve congressional goals, does not eliminate the EPA's overall responsibility to address pollution that's driving global warming, experts said. But the particular rules it uses, included in its efforts...

Disease-Ridden Mosquitoes Are Swarming Vegas
Disease-Ridden Mosquitoes
Are Swarming Vegas
THE RUNDOWN
Jun 22, 2024 8:00 AM CDT

Disease-Ridden Mosquitoes Are Swarming Vegas

Record number of skeeters carrying West Nile virus are showing up in southern Nevada

(Newser) - Dozens of ZIP codes in south Nevada, including Las Vegas, are being overrun by mosquitoes carrying West Nile virus, in what NBC News says are record-busting numbers. Health officials say that, in recent weeks, 24,000 pools of mosquitoes were tested for the contagious disease in 25 ZIP codes in...

Climate Change Makes Unusual Heat at Night Far More Likely
Unusually Hot Nights
Make This Heat Wave Deadly
new study
Jun 20, 2024 4:55 PM CDT

Unusually Hot Nights Make This Heat Wave Deadly

Human activity has changed the formula, scientists say

(Newser) - Human-caused climate change dialed up the thermostat and turbocharged the odds of this month's killer heat that has been baking the Southwestern US, Mexico, and Central America, a new flash study found. Sizzling daytime temperatures that triggered cases of heatstroke in parts of the US were 35 times more...

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