Tag: Climate

Cities drive global warming, but change is possible

Written on July 18, 2022.

-By Hind Al-Abadleh- Urban areas around the world are responsible for more than two-thirds of global greenhouse gases. At the same time, the impacts of climate change are becoming increasingly dire....

Black History Month for the Sciences

Written on February 10, 2021.

On May 25, 2020, Amy Cooper—a white Canadian woman—called the police on Christan Cooper—a black birdwatcher—after he asked her to leash her dog in an on-leash part of Central Park, New York City. From...

Image shows a bird's eye view of a large city, with the sun rising at the horizon.

Adaptation to Global Warming: Inevitable, Prepare Now*

Written on October 24, 2017.

– By John Hollins – Attention by civil society and governments to global warming in the 1990’s was a sequel to action on both acidic precipitation and depletion of the stratospheric ozone...

Photo showing Fort McMurray wildfire, filling the horizon with a giant plume of smoke overhead. Did anthropogenic climate change increase the chance of this extreme wildfire?

Did Anthropogenic Climate Change Increase the Chance of an Extreme Wildfire in the Fort McMurray Area?

Written on September 1, 2017.

– By Megan Kirchmeier-Young, Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium, University of Victoria – A summary of a recent paper by Kirchmeier-Young et al. that describes an event attribution analysis...