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News Articles: climate

Climate shift index

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  • Weather

It’s hot. Is that normal or is it climate change?

 Created by researchers at the nonprofit Climate Central, the Climate Shift Index teases out the effect of climate change on daily temperatures all over the U.S., showing how the burning of fossil fuels has boosted the odds of any given daily high and low temperatures.

July 11, 2022
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By:
  • Mary Landers
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, center, and Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson walk in downtown Kyiv, Ukraine, in April . Johnson may have been shown the door in Britain, but he remains a popular figure in Ukraine, where he is admired for his support for the country's effort to repel the Russian invasion.

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  • Europe

Ukrainians have a special place in their hearts for Boris Johnson

While Britons might be happy to see their prime minister go, Ukrainians hold him in higher regard.

July 08, 2022
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By:
  • Eleanor Beardsley
Katherine Morgan wipes sweat from her forehead while walking to work during a record-breaking heat wave in Portland in 2021. Scientists say that heat wave would have been virtually impossible without human caused climate change.

Tagged as: 

  • Climate

Researchers can now explain how climate change is affecting your weather

For decades, it was impossible to say that a specific weather event was caused, or even made worse, by climate change. But advanced research methods are changing that.

July 07, 2022
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By:
  • Rebecca Hersher
A house sits in Rock Creek after floodwaters washed away a road and a bridge in Red Lodge, Mont., on June 15, 2022.

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  • Climate

The flooding in Yellowstone reveals forecast flaws as climate warms

Models used to predict flooding are based on long-term, historical records that do not reflect changes to the climate over the past decade, scientists say..

July 07, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
The Energy Fuels uranium mill and waste cells at White Mesa, Utah.

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  • Environment

Is a Uranium mill in Utah making tribal members sick? They'll find out in 2025

The Utah mill has long concerned a tribal community next door. They hope a new health study will answer their questions. "A lot of our people mysteriously started getting sick," a tribal member says.

July 06, 2022
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By:
  • Lucas Brady Woods
Five Just Stop Oil activists spray paint the wall and glue themselves to the frame of the painting <em>The Last Supper</em> on Tuesday at the Royal Academy in London.

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  • World

Climate protesters in England glued themselves to a copy of 'The Last Supper'

Activists from the same group have glued themselves to other paintings at U.K. art galleries in recent days, calling on the government to end all new oil and gas licenses.

July 05, 2022
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
GPB News NPR

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  • Climate

More than 3 feet of rain triggers evacuation warnings in Australia's largest city

Parts of Sydney's 5 million people are facing a fourth flooding emergency in less than a year and a half after torrential rain caused dams to overflow and waterways to break their banks.

July 04, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Cara Romero, "Water Memory,<em>"</em> 2015

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  • Art & Design

A provocative exhibit at NYC's Met Museum takes a new point of view

The exhibit explores how Native Americans have used water. But it also points out how political water is.

July 04, 2022
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By:
  • Jennifer Vanasco
Cara Romero, "Water Memory,<em>"</em> 2015

Tagged as: 

  • Art & Design

A provocative exhibit at NYC's Met Museum takes a new point of view

The exhibit explores how Native Americans have used water. But it also points out how political water is.

July 04, 2022
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By:
  • Jennifer Vanasco
This image released on Sunday by the Italian National Alpine and Cave Rescue Corps shows the glacier in Italy's Alps near Trento, a large chunk of which has broken loose, killing at least six hikers and injuring others.

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  • Europe

At least 6 hikers were killed after a piece of glacier broke loose in Italy

The glacier, in the Marmolada range, is the largest in the Dolomite mountains in northeastern Italy and people ski there in the winter. But the glacier has been rapidly melting away in recent years.

July 03, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
This image released on Sunday by the Italian National Alpine and Cave Rescue Corps shows the glacier in Italy's Alps near Trento, a large chunk of which has broken loose, killing at least six hikers and injuring others.

Tagged as: 

  • Europe

At least 6 hikers were killed after a piece of glacier broke loose in Italy

The glacier, in the Marmolada range, is the largest in the Dolomite mountains in northeastern Italy and people ski there in the winter. But the glacier has been rapidly melting away in recent years.

July 03, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
A scorched structure and vehicles stand on a property mostly destroyed by the Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon Fire on June 2, near Las Vegas, N.M.

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  • National

Ecologists say federal wildfire plans are dangerously out of step with climate change

Many forest ecologists say the U.S. Forest Service is hampered by an outdated approach to prescribed fires, a key tool for reducing the threat of megafires made worse by climate change.

July 03, 2022
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By:
  • Eric Westervelt
A scorched structure and vehicles stand on a property mostly destroyed by the Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon Fire on June 2, near Las Vegas, N.M.

Tagged as: 

  • National

Ecologists say federal wildfire plans are dangerously out of step with climate change

Many forest ecologists say the U.S. Forest Service is hampered by an outdated approach to prescribed fires, a key tool for reducing the threat of megafires made worse by climate change.

July 03, 2022
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By:
  • Eric Westervelt
GPB News NPR

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  • Climate

Has the Supreme Court tied the Biden administration's hands on climate change?

NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with Gina McCarthy, the White House national climate advisor, about the Supreme Court's ruling that limits the EPA's ability to set carbon-emission limits.

July 01, 2022
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  • GPB Newsroom
Shoppers drink juice in plastic cups at a market in New Delhi, on Wednesday. India banned some single-use or disposable plastic products Friday as part of a longer plan to phase out the ubiquitous material in the nation of nearly 1.4 billion.

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  • World

India begins to ban single-use plastics including cups and straws

Other items like water or soda bottles or snack bags aren't banned yet. But the government has set targets for manufacturers to be responsible for recycling or disposing of them after their use.

July 01, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
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