Miami Uses Pumps To Battle Flooding From Sea Level Rise
To combat sea level rise, one of the consequences of climate change, Miami Beach is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to install new storm sewers and pumps.
Environment
Love Pine Nuts? Then Protect Pine Forests
An expensive delicacy among nuts, pine nuts are foraged — not farmed — from distant forests. In some places, the delicate ecosystems that produce the nuts are disappearing.
Climate Change Worsens Coastal Flooding From High Tides
Flooding from extreme tidal swings was once just a rare nuisance for coastal cities. But rising sea levels have increased the frequency of these nuisance floods as much as tenfold since the 1960s.
So A Global Economist Walks Into A Comedy Club ...
Yoram Bauman is an economist. And a stand-up comic. Who makes jokes about climate change and global development, among other topics. At the Inter-American Development Bank this week, he killed!
Protests Disrupt Telescope Groundbreaking In Hawaii
After years of planning, Hawaii's Thirty Meter Telescope broke ground Tuesday. But a group interrupted the ceremony, angry about the telescope's location on a mountain held sacred by Native Hawaiians.
Soil Doctors Hit Pay Dirt In Manhattan's Central Park
The urban oasis boasts about 170,000 different types of microbes, recent dirt samples show. That diversity is comparable to a tropical rain forest. About 2,000 species are found only in the park.
When Can A Big Storm Or Drought Be Blamed On Climate Change?
Scientists wince when people blame every big tropical cyclone, heat wave or drought on a shifting climate. But now some are trying to figure out just what the evidence for such a link would be.
Death Toll From Japanese Volcano Rises
Nearly 50 people are listed as dead from an eruption of Mount Ontake, located about 125 miles west of Tokyo.
Ban On Single-Use Plastic Bags Is Enacted In California
Gov. Jerry Brown has signed SB 270, the first statewide ban on single-use plastic bags in the U.S. It requires a 10-cent fee for the use of compostable or paper bags.
Aral Sea's Eastern Basin Has Dried Out, NASA Photos Show
"For the first time in modern history, the eastern basin of the South Aral Sea has completely dried," NASA says, citing satellite photos from 2000 and 2014.