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Young people are suffering from climate anxiety. Here’s how to …
Jan 17, 2025 · For young people around the world, climate change no longer seems a distant threat, but a present reality. One recent study published in the peer-reviewed journal The Lancet Planetary health surveyed 10,000 young people in 10 countries.A staggering 59% were very or extremely worried about climate change, and the vast …
Climate news to watch in 2025 » Yale Climate Connections
Jan 2, 2025 · Wind turbines stand behind visitors at Gaomei wetland during sunset on August 22, 2024, in Taichung, Taiwan. Taiwan, a leader in utilizing natural resources for power, is rapidly expanding its wind power generation, particularly through offshore projects, to …
The role of climate change in the catastrophic 2025 Los Angeles fires
Jan 9, 2025 · Climate scientist Daniel Swain said on CNN that the Pacific Palisades fire alone may end up as the most expensive wildfire in history, and that he expected that collectively, the fires ravaging the region will be the costliest wildfire event in history. According to NOAA, the most expensive wildfire season on record (in 2024 USD, to account for inflation) was the $30 billion 2018 season ...
A high-impact week, from a snowy Gulf Coast to shrieking …
5 days ago · Ironically, one thing that’s helping to make the Gulf Coast setup so unusually snow-favorable is dry air. About a mile above sea level, some of the driest air on record was flowing across the South toward the Gulf of Mexico. When the atmosphere is forced upward in a storm system, temperatures drop until the air is saturated (i.e., relative humidity hits 100 percent).
The planet is ‘on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster ...
Oct 30, 2024 · Earth’s climate in 2024 is “in a major crisis with worse to come if we continue with business as usual,” a team of 14 climate scientists warned in “The 2024 state of the climate report: Perilous times on planet Earth.”The report did not sugarcoat their view of the dangers humanity is facing.
As renewables rise, the world may be nearing a climate turning …
Dec 4, 2024 · Climate pollution caused by burning fossil fuels hit a record 37.4 billion metric tons in 2024, marking a 0.8% rise from the previous year – and dashing hopes that a peak in global emissions might occur this year.. That’s according to the latest annual Global Carbon Budget, which underscores a deeper challenge: the world’s ongoing reliance on coal, oil, and gas, which continues to drive ...
How cities run dry » Yale Climate Connections
In April 2024, more than 9 million residents of Bogotá, Colombia’s capital city, were told to collect rainwater – if the city was lucky enough to experience a storm. Fed by the Guatiquía River, the Chingaza reservoir system, which supplies the area with …
The world just broke a stunning slew of heat records. Why right …
Jul 7, 2023 · Hottest single days globally on record. Drawing on multi-source analyses from NOAA of daily global temperature that extend back to 1979, the Climate Reanalyzer website shows that July 3, 2023, was the warmest single day on record — only to be toppled by July 4, tied on July 5, and broken again on July 6 (see Figure 1 below). The Copernicus Climate Change Project, part of the European Center ...
A major milestone: Global climate pollution may have just peaked
Jul 16, 2024 · Global society may have finally slammed on the brakes for climate-warming pollution released by human fossil fuel combustion. According to the Carbon Monitor Project, the total global climate pollution released between February and May 2024 declined slightly from the amount released during the same period in 2023.Many experts believe that the clean energy transition has reached the point where ...