The New York Times – article and visualizations [unpaywalled]: “Earth’s warming could trigger sweeping changes in the natural world that would be hard, if not impossible, to reverse. Right now, every moment of every day, we humans are reconfiguring Earth’s climate bit by bit. Hotter summers and wetter storms. Higher seas and fiercer wildfires. The… Continue Reading
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Stay Safe From Wildfires When Seconds Count
Watch Duty, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, alerts you of nearby wildfires and firefighting efforts in real-time. Real-time Wildfire Map & Alerts. Receive notifications about the status and conditions on the ground as they change. Monitor Wildfires and Prescribed Burns. Know if that smoke in the distance is a fire you need to be worried about. Flight… Continue Reading
More than a billion birds could be dying from flying into buildings each year in US
PopSci: “Glass windows are a marvel of human engineering–clear, nearly invisible sheets of sturdy material that let us bring natural light into closed structures. Yet beyond the walls of bright and airy buildings, windows become something else: A threat to wildlife. Birds don’t understand glass. They haven’t been taught to recognize the structural cues indicating… Continue Reading
How Does Your State Make Electricity?
The New York Times [unpaywalled] America isn’t making electricity the way it did two decades ago. Visualization details How the United States made electricity from 2001 to 2023 – Percentage of power produced from each energy source. Fossil fuels still generate the majority of America’s electricity, but the shift from coal to natural gas and… Continue Reading
All-night streetlights make leaves inedible to insects
Frontiers.org – Threatening the food chain: “In many cities, the streetlights run all night — but what does this mean for the plants and animals that live there? Scientists tested Japanese pagoda trees and green ash trees in Beijing to see what effect round-the-clock light has on them. They found that the leaves were tougher… Continue Reading
Climate Deniers of the 118th Congress
“The Center for American Progress has periodically analyzed statements by sitting members of Congress to determine whether they deny the existence of human-caused climate change. This analysis of the 118th U.S. Congress found that 123 elected officials are climate deniers—23 percent of 535 total members. These 100 representatives and 23 senators wield significant influence on… Continue Reading
Climate and health data website launched
“A new website of data resources, tools, and training materials that can aid researchers in studying the consequences of climate change on the health of communities nationwide is now available. At the end of July, NIEHS launched the Climate and Health Outcomes Research Data Systems (CHORDS) website, which includes a catalog of environmental and health… Continue Reading
Snow Belt to Sun Belt Migration: End of an Era?
Leduc, Sylvain, and Daniel J. Wilson. 2024. “Snow Belt to Sun Belt Migration: End of an Era?” Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Working Paper July 18, 2024-21. https://doi.org/10.24148/wp2024-21 -“Internal migration has been cited as a key channel by which societies will adapt to climate change. We show in this paper that this process has… Continue Reading
The Quiet Power of Car-Free Neighborhoods
Bloomberg: Restricting or banning vehicles in congested city centers pays off with cleaner air and safer streets. “We need to talk more about the other big benefit — less noise. Although still rare in North America, car-free and car-light neighborhoods have grown common in Europe, established in cities like Paris, Brussels and Pontevedra, Spain. Boosters… Continue Reading
Country Overshoot Days 2024
Country Overshoot Day Calendar & Calculations – “A country’s overshoot day is the date on which Earth Overshoot Day would fall if all of humanity consumed like the people in that country. Country overshoot days are published on January 1st of each year, using the latest year of the most recent National Footprint and Biocapacity… Continue Reading
Climate change indicators
Climate Change Indicators: Zachary Labe – “I’m a Climate Scientist (Atmospheric) at NOAA GFDL | PhD | trying to visualize the signal from a lot of noise. Broadly, I am interested in a signal-to-noise problem. The signal is climate change. The noise is weather. My research intends to disentangle the two components to improve our… Continue Reading
Nimbo – Air Quality Data
Nimbo: A project automated with KIUU to raise awareness of air quality. For each major city in Europe there is a visual representation and Air pollution (CAQI – UE) rating data [from very low to very high, on a daily basis.] Users may easily explore past dates as well as choose among the cites, and… Continue Reading
