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The 1974 holiday classic "The Year Without a Santa Claus" introduced us to Mother Nature's incorrigible son, Heat Miser, who controlled hot weather on Earth. But the rapidly increasing heating resulting from ever-rising greenhouse gas emissions is no laughing matter, as humanity careens toward more extreme weather events faster than expected.

9 May 2022

Global scorching ahead of schedule. Well done, humanity.

Earth’s average global temperature has 50-50 chance of crossing the 1.5 degree Celsius threshold as early as 2023.

Global warming

In a scene from the docuseries "Meltdown: Three Mile Island," CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite reports on the pending nuclear disaster in central Pennsylvania that came shockingly close to a "China syndrome" meltdown, and required a 14-year clean-up operation.

7 May 2022

Is nuclear power safe enough to be part of our non-carbon future?

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and Prof. Michael Mann

1 April 2022

Political will all we need to avert climate catastrophe, say Mann, Whitehouse

Tropical forests create year-round cooling, and collectively all forests keep Earth about 0.5 degrees Celsius cooler, according to new research.

24 March 2022

Forests cool the planet as well as store carbon, new research finds

Global scorching

The 1974 holiday classic "The Year Without a Santa Claus" introduced us to Mother Nature's incorrigible son, Heat Miser, who controlled hot weather on Earth. But the rapidly increasing heating resulting from ever-rising greenhouse gas emissions is no laughing matter, as humanity careens toward more extreme weather events faster than expected.

9 May 2022

Global scorching ahead of schedule. Well done, humanity.

The 2013 Alder Fire (pictured above) in Yellowstone National Park was one of five at the time caused by lightning strikes and fueled by warmer and drier weather and spread by strong winds. Lightning is attributed to 55 percent of burned acreage between 2016 and 2020. In 2020, California's largest fires were caused by lightning.

8 May 2021

How climate and wildfire risk are linked

Members of the Texas National Guard help Houston residents from areas flooded by Hurricane Harvey, which swamped the region with record rainfall exasperated by the climate emergency.

13 June 2020

Human-caused global heating attributable to half or more of Hurricane Harvey damages

Alternative energy

In a scene from the docuseries "Meltdown: Three Mile Island," CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite reports on the pending nuclear disaster in central Pennsylvania that came shockingly close to a "China syndrome" meltdown, and required a 14-year clean-up operation.

7 May 2022

Is nuclear power safe enough to be part of our non-carbon future?

Norway's Havyard Group ASA is filling 13 orders for zero-emission ferries received since 2016 (Photo: Carina Johansen/Bloomberg)

14 March 2018

Batteries a clean energy solution for shipping

For every one bird killed by a wind turbine, fossil fuel-powered plants kill 2,188 birds. (Photo: David Clarke)

8 March 2018

Wind farms least threat to birds

Marine life

Biodiversity -- and carbon -- abound in a kelp forest.

3 July 2020

How sea otters are good for the climate and other things

The orca Tahlequah grieved the death of her calf for 17 days and 1,000 miles.

19 June 2019

Time for a Puget Sound Bill of Rights

Enquiring minds examine hidden marine life during low tide at West Seattle's Constellation Park

31 August 2018

The hidden marine life along the shore — and threats to its survival

Pollution

New research confirms Dr. King's declaration that segregation is bad for our health.

4 April 2018

Pollution discriminates: worse in segregated areas, research shows

The River Tame, near Manchester, U.K., has the highest microplastic pollution yet discovered anywhere in the world.

12 March 2018

Microplastic pollution in ocean numbers beyond trillions

6 March 2018

How plastic pollution harms marine life

Good climate reads

The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet, by Michael E. Mann

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