Hurricane, Fire, Covid-19: Disasters Expose the Hard Reality of Climate Change
A low-grade hurricane that is slowly scraping along the East Coast. A wildfire in California that has led to evacuation orders for 8,000 people. And...
Tag : Environment
Death of a Cat
NASHVILLE — I first saw it in bits — two paws here, the tip of a tail there — on grainy, black-and-white images taken by...
Under Pressure, Brazil’s Bolsonaro Forced to Fight Deforestation
RIO DE JANEIRO — A year ago, as fires engulfed the Amazon, President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil reacted to criticism from abroad with indignation: “The...
Race to capture giant ‘murder hornet’ colony before numbers soar
The race is now on to track the colony before mating season begins and numbers soar (Picture: Reuters) Scientists have captured a ‘murder hornet’ for...
From Good Wine, a Direct Path to the Wonders of Nature
Last year a friend asked me a question I had never considered before: Over the many years I had been writing about wine, what was...
Gold vs. Salmon: Battle Over an Alaskan Mine
From the air it looks like just another tract of Alaska’s endless, roadless tundra, pockmarked with lakes and ponds, with a scattering of some of...
Greta Thunberg immediately gives away €1 million from prize she won
Greta Thunberg has won the inaugural Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity (Picture: EPA/Instagram) Greta Thunberg is giving away €1 million (£900,000) to climate groups after winning...
Global Warming Is Driving Polar Bears Toward Extinction, Researchers Say
Polar bears could become nearly extinct by the end of the century as a result of shrinking sea ice in the Arctic if global warming...
Will Clean Energy Projects Face Troubles That Have Bedeviled Pipelines?
This month, environmentalists celebrated setbacks to three major oil and gas pipelines, nearly a decade after the protests against the Keystone XL pipeline began. Yet...
Southern Iraq’s Toxic Twilight
Iraq is the rare country that imports gas but also burns natural gas from oil wells into the air. The wasted gas is enough to...