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The National Weather Service (NWS) is transforming to better protect and serve communities by focusing on the people of NWS, improvements to infrastructure, and advancing the agency to meet the future. When Ken Graham began his tenure as the NWS…
A new peer-reviewed study examined the impact Indigenous territories have on human health in two categories of diseases, finding that municipalities located close to Indigenous lands with intact forests have a reduced risk. By Katie Surma Indigenous territories are a…
Children as young as three will have lessons on wildfires and flooding under 10-point emergency response plan Spanish children will be taught how to respond to floods, wildfires, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions in a drive to help prepare them for…
Kent council condemned by opposition parties, which say county is ‘at the forefront of climate impacts’ Plans by Reform UK to “rescind” the declaration of a climate emergency at one of the English county councils it now controls have been…
Keeping predator numbers down may be last hope to save the ground-nesting birds – but critics say real problem is farming practices Should we be organising mass culls of foxes and crows in order to save the plummeting numbers of…
With effective weather forecasting, testing with “hail cannons,” and an ability to go into “stow” mode, panels can tolerate run-ins with even large balls of ice. By Dan Gearino As Texas becomes the country’s leader in generating solar power, the…
Indonesia reels from floods as extreme rainfall hit its provinces, leaving 15 dead and 100 missing. Rescuers search for survivors after at least 112 neighbourhoods were submerged by rising rivers. Torrential rain began on Monday. causing flooding and landslides in…
Scientists studying the world’s largest river turtles, a South American species that grows to a length of nearly a meter, or 3 feet, have found the largest nesting aggregation ever recorded. Using drones to conduct a population survey in the…
Experimental climate interventions in the world’s oceans are moving ahead in a regulatory vacuum, raising concerns among scientists about potential risks, Mongabay staff writer Edward Carver reported. The projects, known as marine-climate interventions, aim to tackle global warming or help…
Diver and artisanal fisherman Daniel Caniullán recalls with frustration the day he went to collect shellfish from a natural bank in northern Chile, only to find hundreds of the plumose anemones covering the seabed. “I found an anemone plague where…