As Klamath River communities continue to recover from a massive fish kill caused by a mud slide spurred by heavy rains and the McKinney Fire in northern California, UC Davis on August 11 issued a statement that they were “devastated to report” that a catastrophic failure has resulted in the loss of about 21,000 fish at the UC […]
Debris flow stemming from the McKinney Fire, then heavy rains, are causing a fish kill on the Klamath River in Northern California. “Very large numbers of dead fish, of all species, are being observed in the vicinity of Happy Camp, CA along the mainstem Klamath River,” according to a press advisory released an hour ago from the Karuk […]
Climate science is clear: Floodwaters are a growing risk for many American cities, threatening to displace not only people and housing but also the land-based pollution left behind by earlier industrial activities. In 2019, researchers at the U.S. Government Accountability Office investigated climate-related risks at the 1,571 most polluted properties in the country, also known […]
Powerful storm systems triggered flash flooding across the U.S. in late July, inundating St. Louis neighborhoods with record rainfall and setting off mudslides in eastern Kentucky, where at least 16 people died in flooding. Another deluge in Nevada flooded the Las Vegas strip. Mathew Barlow, UMass Lowell The Conversation The impact of climate change on […]
Wildfires in the American West are getting larger, more frequent and more severe. Although efforts are underway to create fire-adapted communities, it’s important to realize that we cannot simply design our way out of wildfire – some communities will need to begin planning a retreat. Emily E. Schlickman, University of California, Davis; Brett Milligan, University […]
Thousands of emergency workers in California struggled to fight a rapidly growing wildfire near Yosemite National Park on Sunday as President Joe Biden continued to mull whether to declare a national climate emergency, a move that campaigners say is needed to respond to the immediate threat of extreme weather and lay the groundwork for a […]
Newly released images from NASA show how drastically decades of drought in the American West have caused water levels in crucial Lake Mead to decline, threatening water access for tens of millions of people and millions of acres of farmland. By Julia Conley Common Dreams NASA Earth Observatory released satellite images of the reservoir, part of the Colorado […]
Hundreds of millions of people struggled to keep cool amid a sweltering summer heat wave as cities across the U.S. and mainland Europe experienced record-high temperatures. In the U.K., thermometers topped 104 Fahrenheit (40 degrees Celsius) on July 19, 2022, the highest ever recorded. Derek Lemoine, University of Arizona The Conversation While all this broiling […]
As the United Kingdom endures its hottest day on record amid Europe’s unprecedented and ongoing heatwave, Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg warned Tuesday that the worst is yet to come—unless people around the world work together to dislodge the profit-maximizing economic system that is endangering life on Earth. By Kenny Stancil Common Dreams Hard to believe I […]
“Nowadays snows melt earlier in the springtime. Lakes, rivers, and bogs freeze much later in the autumn. Reindeer herding becomes more difficult as the ice is weak and may give way … All sorts of unusual events have taken place. Nowadays the winters are much warmer than they used to be. Occasionally during winter time it […]
I spoke oh CNN Newsroom with Michael Holmes about the unprecedented extreme weather events playing out across the Northern Hemisphere and the clear role played by climate change. By Dr Michael Mann “What we’re seeing here is an example of reaping what we have sown. We have continued to warm the planet for decades with […]
Several countries across Europe are enduring the dangerous hot conditions that climate scientists have longed warned of and meteorologists project the brutal heatwave could last in some areas through next month. By Jessica Corbett Common Dreams In 2020, the @metoffice produced a hypothetical weather forecast for 23 July 2050 based on UK climate projections. Today, the forecast for […]
Heavy rains triggered dangerous flooding in Tennessee, India and China this week, and flood warnings have been issued for part of the northern U.S. Gulf Coast as a storm moves in. Parts of Australia are cleaning up from record flooding. In June 2022, the flooding was in the mountains of the U.S. West, where rain […]
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: Texas’s deregulated, isolated grid is stressed nearly to breaking by the excessive electricity demand during an extreme weather event because fossil fuel power plants are unexpectedly offline. Wind and solar make sure the light, and A/C stay on, but instead of being championed, they’re maligned as unreliable […]
The uncontained Washburn Fire threatens to incinerate more than 500 mature sequoias in Yosemite National Park, forcing the evacuation of park visitors and residents of Wawona, a community surrounded by the park. By Nexus Media News Sequoias were once believed to be impervious to fire damage, but in just the last two years, wildfires fueled […]