The Climate Impact of Owning a Dog
This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. I’ve been a vegetarian for over a decade. It’s not because of my health,…
Read more The Climate Impact of Owning a DogTag: climate desk
An Invasive Disease-Carrying Mosquito Has Spread to the Rocky Mountains
This story originally appeared on Inside Climate News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It can carry life-threatening diseases. It’s difficult to find and hard to…
Read more An Invasive Disease-Carrying Mosquito Has Spread to the Rocky MountainsTrump’s Hatred of EVs Is Making Gas Cars More Expensive
This story originally appeared on Mother Jones and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As President Donald Trump sees it, environmental regulations that attempt to improve efficiency…
Read more Trump’s Hatred of EVs Is Making Gas Cars More ExpensiveClimate Change Made Hurricane Melissa 4 Times More Likely, Study Suggests
This story originally appeared on Inside Climate News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Fueled by unusually warm waters, Hurricane Melissa this week turned into one…
Read more Climate Change Made Hurricane Melissa 4 Times More Likely, Study SuggestsAustralia’s March Toward 100 Percent Clean Energy
“[The clutch] is like 1950s technology—it’s really boring,” Westerman said (“boring,” for grid operators, is the highest form of praise). “The marginal cost of putting this in is…
Read more Australia’s March Toward 100 Percent Clean EnergyWhy US Power Bills Are Surging
Now, electricity prices are surging in addition to all of the uncorked demand from the Covid-19 pandemic, when the global economic slowdown and pressure from policymakers kept a…
Read more Why US Power Bills Are SurgingThe LA Fires Spewed Out Toxic Nanoparticles. He Made It His Mission to Trace Them
Spada’s is one of the hardest projects to tune the beam for. “The beam is way over-powered to run my samples, at baseline,” Spada said, comparing the amount…
Read more The LA Fires Spewed Out Toxic Nanoparticles. He Made It His Mission to Trace ThemBig Tech Dreams of Putting Data Centers in Space
For one thing, the systems he imagines process data relatively slowly compared to those on terra firma. They’d be constantly bombarded by radiation, and “obsolescence would be a…
Read more Big Tech Dreams of Putting Data Centers in SpaceBig Businesses Are Doing Carbon Dioxide Removal All Wrong
Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and H&M are currently investing in durable CDR. A spokesperson for H&M described the fast-fashion company’s purchase of 10,000 metric tons of durable CDR from the…
Read more Big Businesses Are Doing Carbon Dioxide Removal All WrongReal Estate Speculators Are Swooping In to Buy Disaster-Hit Homes
“Hi there Gina, hope you’re having a great day,” said another exactly two weeks later. “My name is Christine, I am a land buyer. I’m reaching out to…
Read more Real Estate Speculators Are Swooping In to Buy Disaster-Hit HomesAntarctica Is Changing Rapidly. The Consequences Could Be Dire
This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Seen from space, Antarctica looks so much simpler than the other continents—a great sheet…
Read more Antarctica Is Changing Rapidly. The Consequences Could Be DireClimate Change Is Bringing Legionnaire’s Disease to a Town Near You
This story originally appeared on Vox and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Air conditioners have been working overtime this hot summer, from those tiny window units…
Read more Climate Change Is Bringing Legionnaire’s Disease to a Town Near You
California Is Flooding School Cafeterias With Vegan Meals—and Kids Like It
Student nutrition directors like Primer say the foundation that allows schools to experiment with new recipes is California’s universal free lunch program. She notes that, when school lunch…
Read more California Is Flooding School Cafeterias With Vegan Meals—and Kids Like It
The Origins of the Climate Haven Myth
The real estate industry has taken notice. Quite coincidentally, as Hurricane Helene was bearing down on the Southeast last week, Zillow announced a new feature that displays climate…
Read more The Origins of the Climate Haven Myth
Taiwan Makes the Majority of the World’s Computer Chips. Now It’s Running Out of Electricity
It is not just a case of building more capacity. Taiwan’s energy dilemma is a combination of national security, climate, and political challenges. The island depends on imported…
Read more Taiwan Makes the Majority of the World’s Computer Chips. Now It’s Running Out of Electricity
A Lawsuit From Backers of a ‘Startup City’ Could Bankrupt Honduras
The flurry of private contracts became part of a “kleptocratic” regime, according to one 2017 report by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Nearly all of the ISDS…
Read more A Lawsuit From Backers of a ‘Startup City’ Could Bankrupt Honduras
California Can Slake the Thirst of Its Farms by Storing Water Underground
For example, two winters’ worth of snow followed by intense heat created a flood risk in 2023. State officials decided to release water from Lake Oroville and other…
Read more California Can Slake the Thirst of Its Farms by Storing Water Underground
AI Has Helped Shein Become Fast Fashion’s Biggest Polluter
This story originally appeared in Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In 2023, the fast-fashion giant Shein was everywhere. Crisscrossing the globe, airplanes ferried small…
Read more AI Has Helped Shein Become Fast Fashion’s Biggest Polluter
The Mosquito-Borne Disease ‘Triple E’ Is Spreading in the US as Temperatures Rise
The disease is spread by two types of mosquito. The first is a species called Culiseta melanura, or the black-tailed mosquito. This mosquito tends to live in hardwood…
Read more The Mosquito-Borne Disease ‘Triple E’ Is Spreading in the US as Temperatures Rise
Scientists Plan ‘Doomsday’ Vault on Moon
Thanga and his team have sketched a system that would use solar panels and batteries to provide the power to push temperatures inside a lava tube down to…
Read more Scientists Plan ‘Doomsday’ Vault on Moon