Building up community resilience, highlighting systemic failures, and climate change impacts – Climate Generation
Where we listen if the ground would rattle as you walked by, where the sky’s clear-blue fields lead to scorching hot days, the water’s surface shines clear with sunlight beaming through still streams. Journey with a Mexican Native from South Central Texas now navigating the wintry landscapes of Minnesota. What I have lived through As […]
Potentially devastating multiday flood brewing for mid-Mississippi Valley » Yale Climate Connections
A powerful upper-level trough of low pressure slowing to a crawl over the Western United States will deliver a prolonged onslaught of severe weather and intense rainfall centered on the mid-Mississippi Valley over the first several days of April. The threat of tornadoes, destructive winds, and damaging hail will peak from Wednesday afternoon, April 2, […]
Bringing back the mammoth won’t fix the future » Yale Climate Connections
The media is abuzz with news of a recent breakthrough in de-extinction research. The creation of genetically modified mice sporting a distinctive woolly coat marks an important step in resurrecting the extinct woolly mammoth, some researchers argue. The fluff factor is key because scientists hope to create a shaggy, cold-tolerant creature to fill the niche left […]
Power outages put diabetes patients at risk » Yale Climate Connections
Transcript: People who live with diabetes must carefully monitor and manage their blood glucose levels. But that can be difficult during extreme weather. Graffeo: “There are so many factors that can affect our blood sugar levels, and some big ones are stress, lack of sleep, and not following a normal schedule. And that’s something that […]
Two-part webinar about the scientific consensus on human-caused global warming
Two-part webinar about the scientific consensus on human-caused global warming Posted on 2 April 2025 by BaerbelW, John Cook In February 2025, John Cook gave two webinars for republicEN explaining the scientific consensus on human-caused climate change. 20 February 2025: republicEN webinar part 1 – BUST or TRUST? The scientific consensus on climate change In the first webinar, […]
Speeding backwards: Greenpeace slams Coalition commitment to neuter vehicle efficiency standards
MELBOURNE, 2 APRIL 2025–Greenpeace Australia Pacific has slammed the Coalition’s promise to neuter the New Vehicle Efficiency Standard (NVES) by removing fines from the scheme as policy that bends the knee to the petrol car lobby while costing Australians and increasing carbon pollution “The NVES finally brought Australia onto the same playing field as other […]
Don’t Let You Say You’re Not – Climate Generation
Me, a climate activist? That feels hard to claim. And yet, if someone were to read the book of my life, I think they would find a climate story. It started with many moments. Seeds planted over time. Hot summer days at Spring Brook Nature Center, the sensation of cool water and earth seeping into […]
A play that confronts climate change with humor » Yale Climate Connections
Transcript: For Rozina Kanchwala, telling stories is cathartic. About five years ago, she was working in solar energy and worrying a lot about the climate. To express those feelings, she began writing plays. And she found that theater performances and audience discussions can be a way to connect people who share those concerns. Kanchwala: “It’s […]
Thrill seekers, here’s your chance at the ride of a lifetime » Yale Climate Connections
Recent cuts across the federal government have raised questions about whether President Donald Trump’s administration will aim to dismantle and privatize the National Weather Service, part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Project 2025, a 922-page blueprint of policy proposals published during the presidential campaign and intended to guide the Trump administration should it […]
The silent collapse of an American urban tree canopy » Yale Climate Connections
Environmental journalist Mike Tidwell had traveled the world, witnessing the deadly impacts of a changing climate. Then he saw that climate change was threatening the life he had made for himself and his family in an idyllic town on the District of Columbia’s northeast border. (Image credit: Elizabeth Tidwell) In “The Lost Trees of Willow […]