Summer and fall are wildfire season across the western U.S. In recent years, wildfires have destroyed thousands of homes, forced hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate and exposed tens of millions to harmful smoke. By Nathan Mietkiewicz, National Ecological Observatory Network and Jennifer Balch, University of Colorado Boulder The Conversation Wildfires are a natural […]
The heat wave hitting the northwestern U.S. and Canada has been shattering records, with temperatures 30 degrees Fahrenheit or more above normal. With drought already gripping the West, the intense heat has helped suck even more moisture from millions of acres of forests and grasslands, bringing dead vegetation in many regions to record-dry levels and […]
“Are you going to run out of water?” is the first question people ask when they find out I’m from Arizona. The answer is that some people already have, others soon may and it’s going to get much worse without dramatic changes. Robert Glennon, University of Arizona The Conversation Unsustainable water practices, drought and climate […]
A heat dome occurs when a persistent region of high pressure traps heat over an area. The heat dome can stretch over several states and linger for days to weeks, leaving the people, crops and animals below to suffer through stagnant, hot air that can feel like an oven. By William Gallus, Iowa State University […]
As the polluter-packed Supreme Court readies its final decisions for this term, one of the last among them is West Virginia v. EPA. Like the abortion ruling, it’s both the culmination of decades of careful and concerted conservative political machinations, and just the start of the damage this Court is going to do to the United States. By […]
Update: The Supreme Court decision in WV v. EPA was handed down Thursday morning. See our full coverage here: Kagan: SCOTUS has stripped the EPA of the power Congress gave it to respond to climate change In WV v. EPA, SCOTUS drops carbon bomb on the planet WRI: SCOTUS curtails EPA’s authority to regulate power plant […]
By now, few people question the reality that humans are altering Earth’s climate. The real question is: How quickly can we halt, even reverse, the damage? Part of the answer to this question lies in the concept of “committed warming,” also known as “pipeline warming.” Julien Emile-Geay, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences […]
The Lakota say “Mní wičhóni”—“water is life.” Drought is certainly proving the truth of that. Since 2000, 1.5 billion people have been affected by drought, according to the United Nations, which calculates the economic loss at $124 billion. In many places, it’s getting worse. From East Africa to Brazil to the western half of the United States and […]
Flying over Antarctica, it’s hard to see what all the fuss is about. Like a gigantic wedding cake, the frosting of snow on top of the world’s largest ice sheet looks smooth and unblemished, beautiful and perfectly white. Little swirls of snow dunes cover the surface. Ted Scambos, University of Colorado Boulder The Conversation But […]
Welcome to another week, another episode of the EcoRight Speaks, this time featuring Dale Strickler, an agronomist for Green Cover Seed, a Kansas rancher, and author of the book The Drought Resilient Farm. The Drought Resilient Farm is a compilation of techniques for increasing the ability of soil to capture more rainfall, hold more moisture, and increase the […]
Usually, you have to wait a few sentences for deniers to say something stupid, but a recent post at the industry-funded Heartland Insitute‘s daily disinfo hub is wrong in the very second word! This is impressive,even for Heartland’s ClimateRealism page, where past (mostly false) posts have proven that they apparently don’t understand Google, or what “proportion” means, or how natural variability and time […]
Forecasters at NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, a division of the National Weather Service, are predicting above-average hurricane activity this year — which would make it the seventh consecutive above-average hurricane season. NOAA’s outlook for the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season, which extends from June 1 to November 30, predicts a 65% chance of an above-normal season, a […]
This week, I am joined in conversation by Joe Dominguez, the CEO of Constellation Energy, the nation’s largest producer of carbon-free energy. As CEO, Dominguez oversees Constellation’s clean energy fleet of nuclear, wind, solar, hydroelectric and natural gas facilities in 19 states, and the nation’s top competitive retail and commodities business, which provides electricity, natural gas and other […]
The Deloitte Center for Sustainable Progress released its Global Turning Point Report last week during the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland. Its key finding? Unless serious action is soon taken, impacts of the climate crisis could cost $178 trillion over the next half century. That would amount to a 7.6% reduction in global gross domestic product […]
This week, we feature our conversation with Florida Rep. Byron Donalds, who is in his first term, having replaced the 19th Congressional District’s Francis Rooney, whom, as some of you may recall, was a season one guest and is a big advocate for pricing carbon. By Chelsea Henderson EcoRight News/ RepublicEN Byron is a graduate of Florida […]