climate change

Despite experiencing some of the most severe hurricanes and tropical storms in the country, Florida lawmakers still refuse to vote in favor of legislation to slow down climate change. These blocks are seen at the Senate level, as well as at the state government level, with Governor DeSantis…

One of the unfortunate realities of climate change is that it disproportionately hurts people and countries who contribute very little to the actual problem. As such, international organizations, such as the World Bank have policies in place to help these countries recover. However, these…

Tens of millions of Americans have experienced the thick haze of wildfire smoke over the past few months. While immediate health effects are known, long-term lung function after smoke exposure is much less understood. For more information, click here.

Developing countries, such as Pakistan, experience harm disproportionate to their historically low emissions of greenhouse gases. With the threat of extreme weather events, Pakistan has crafted several plans to reduce emissions and take serious climate action. For more information, click here.

The United Nations has postposed the international climate change negotiations, that were originally scheduled for November in Glasgow, Scotland. Several countries were expected to present new commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, known as COP26. For more information, click here.

There are major concerns for low-lying countries if the temperature rises more than 1.5 degrees Celsius this century. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been working for about three years to set up a body of work including the causes, impacts, and possible solutions to the…

As reported by Deborah Netburn in the Los Angeles Times, a recent scientific analysis was provoked by the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. The published study provided estimates of different species' loss as a result of the global temperature reaching 2 degrees Celsius higher than the average prior to …