climate change Archives - Page 3 of 11

Farm on the edge of northern Chesapeake Bay, with little vegetation buffer and riprap shoreline

For coastal farmers, climate change rubs salt in their wounds

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Huanjia Zhang • December 23, 2020

Spurred by global warming and development, saltwater intrusion is a growing threat to coastal agriculture

Smoke rises from trees on mountain ridges

Prescribed fires may mean safer smoke

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Casey Crownhart • December 16, 2020

Emerging research suggests that smoke from prescribed burns is less harmful than from wildfires

A screenshot from a zoom call showing climate activists making posters for the upcoming climate strike.

Will social distancing sidetrack the climate movement?

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Lili Pike • April 16, 2020

The 50th anniversary of Earth Day was supposed to be one of the biggest US climate marches yet. Now, with the 2020 election at stake, organizers are scrambling to find ways to protest online

How volcanic eruptions may hold the key to averting the climate crisis

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Jonathan Moens • February 5, 2020

A podcast exploring whether solar geo-engineering is a viable solution to the climate crisis

Artemisa Xabriabá (right), 17-year-old indigenous climate activist from Brazil. Artemisa became an activist at age 7, when she helped to reforest 37 acres in the lands of her native community who lives on the left bank of the São Francisco River, in the state of Minas Gerais, southeastern Brazil. Credit: Maria Paula Rubiano

Unrecognized Latin American ‘Gretas’ struggle to bring climate strikes home

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Maria Paula Rubiano • September 24, 2019

A region most vulnerable to climate change was barely visible during the Global Climate Strike.

A new pest threatens the olive harvest of Palestine

In Palestine, an iconic tree suffers, too

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Passant Rabie • July 19, 2019

Climate change is decimating the economically crucial olive harvest — and farmers lack the resources to fight back.

An imam sits in a chair preparing to wash his hands before prayer, while another man stands nearby with a microphone, and a third man sits on the floor holding a cup of water.

Reading the Quran with ‘green glasses’

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Dani Leviss • July 18, 2019

How one religious leader finds environmental roots in Islamic tradition

This is an image of different species of coral captured by Jimmy Chang

Freezing corals to safeguard their future

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Polina Porotsky • May 1, 2019

Researchers are racing to preserve coral larvae for future restoration projects — and cryopreservation could be one solution

A close-up photo of water splashing out of an outdoor water fountain.

Climate change could leave utilities in hot water

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Dani Leviss • January 30, 2019

Warming temperatures are a breeding ground for vulnerabilities in water distribution systems. A new study tackles challenges with maintaining and engineering water systems for a hotter future.