Climate change driving record snows in Alaskan mountains: study

Reporting by Richard Valdmanis; Editing by James Dalgleish BOSTON (Reuters) - Snowfalls atop an Alaskan mountain range have doubled since the start of the industrial age, evidence that climate change can trigger major increases in regional precipitation, according to research published in the journal Scientific Reports on Tuesday. The study by researchers from Dartmouth College, […]

Why so cold? Climate change may be part of the answer

by Henry Fountain, The New York Times As bitter cold continues to grip much of North America and helps spawn the fierce storm along the East Coast, the question arises: What’s the influence of climate change? Some scientists studying the connection between climate change and cold spells, which occur when cold Arctic air dips south, […]

Sea level rise is creeping into coastal cities. Saving them won’t be cheap.

by Nicholas Kusnetz, InsideClimate News To get a sense of how much it will cost the nation to save itself from rising seas over the next 50 years, consider Norfolk, Virginia. In November, the Army Corps released a proposal for protecting the cityfrom coastal flooding that would cost $1.8 billion. Some experts consider the estimate […]

How Utilities Charged Consumers $40 Billion for Failed Power Plants

by Stephen Lacey, Greentech Media Good journalism is more important than ever. In our last episode of the year, we’re choosing our favorite energy reporting of 2017. We’ll start off with a conversation about a damning investigative piece on how U.S. utilities put ratepayers on the hook for $40 billion in failed coal and nuke […]

A school district climate change resolution offers model for other districts

You just never know when a quick email reply will lead to something important.  As a member of the Citizens Climate Lobby, I received a message from Park Guthrie stating his interest in working with a local school board on passing some kind of climate change resolution and asking if anyone on the list had […]

Calif. city with water on 3 sides faces grim future

Anne C. Mulkern, E&E News reporter IMPERIAL BEACH, Calif. — Serge Dedina, the mayor of this town just north of the U.S.-Mexico border, rose just after dawn on a winter morning and headed to the beach, knowing a potential disaster waited offshore. A mass of warm water, dubbed “The Blob,” had raised the level of […]

Fracking study finds low birth weights near natural gas drilling sites

by Sabrina Shankman, InsideClimate News Babies born near hydraulic fracturing sites are 25 percent more likely to have a low birth weight than those born only a few kilometers away, a new study of more than 1 million births in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale region concludes. The study, published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances, provides […]

Community choice is key to meeting climate plan’s ambitious goals

by Barbara Bry, Rayman Khan and Hilary Nemchik, Voice of San Diego San Diego is a leader in innovation, entrepreneurship and sustainability. The city’s Climate Action Plan harnesses those qualities and places us at the forefront of combating climate change. Community choice energy, also known as community choice aggregation, would allow the city to establish […]

Top US firms including Walmart and Ford oppose Trump on climate change

by Richard Luscombe, The Guardian Since taking office, Donald Trump has pulled the United States out of the Paris climate agreement, rolled back numerous protections against environmental pollution and espoused coal as the fuel of the future, all in the name of job creation and ending what he sees as the “theft of American prosperity”. […]

In Alaska’s thawing permafrost, humanity’s ‘library is on fire’

by Sabrina Shankman, InsideClimate News This story was co-published with The Weather Channel. The Internet connection is bad. As Herman Ahsoak speaks into his iPhone, the video chat freezes periodically, his face fixed in strange contortions on the screen. Ahsoak is in Utqiagvik, Alaska, formerly known as Barrow, the northernmost community in the United States; […]