In addition, the Bush administration is examining how to accelerate progress in climate change research and in the development of efficient energy technologies. The administration is also debating new mechanisms to manage global change research more effectively. These actions are well-supported in the ...
ClimatechangewillincreaseUSwildfires,andthesmokyairwillcauseterribleproblemsinareasfarbeyondthoseburned,reportsanenvironmentalgroupThursday.Two-thirdsofAmericans,ornearly212million,livedinstatessufferingfromwildfiresmokethreeyearsago,accordingtothereportbytheNaturalResourcesDefenseCouncil(NRDC).Theseareas,whichhadsmokefor...
Climate change will bring greater extremes in weather, the Government’s chief scientific adviser warned as he called for action to deal with global warming. Professor Sir John Beddington says the effects of climate change on the weather are already being felt in the UK. “In a sense we have...
The results from the study raise important questions about public health and environmental policy, especially as climate change intensifies wildfire seasons. According to a study from researchers at the University of Tasmania, extreme wildfire events have more than doubled in frequency and magnitude glob...
The science is clear: the climate is changing thanks to human activity. The question becomes: will preventing further globe-warming pollution ruin the global economy?
"My mother died this year," she tells us, in tears. "There is no one here for us." "I am so alone here. This small family is all I have." Climate displacement Like Nurjahan, 70% of Dhaka’s slum-dwellers moved there after experiencing some form...
The US policy establishment certainly sees climate change as a ‘serious threat’ to national security, more from a fear of the chaotic waves of migration it could bring than a genuine sympathy for its victims, critics say. Earlier this year,a bipartisan lettersigned by former US secretaries ...
DCNA’s nature related news items focus on a wide variety of topics including coral reefs, sea turtles, sharks, marine mammals, iguanas, parrots and climate change. Through these news updates, we hope to enlighten the public on the richness of the Dutch Caribbean Islands. It is nature that ...
The Trump administration said Wednesday that it plans to adopt aircraft emissions standards modeled on international ones, a move it says will not further reduce climate-damaging emissions from planes. Andrew Wheeler, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, said the change “strike...
【题目】Climate change will bring and has already brought a wide variety of threatening destruction to human existence.Some of these are well-known and already operative, like the wildfires racing along California's freeways or the permanent droughts that have been upsetting Mediterranean farmers. ...