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This Country
Planted 353M Trees
—in Half a Day

Jul 30, 2019 8:03 AM CDT

This Country Planted 353M Trees —in Half a Day

4B is the ultimate goal in Ethiopia

(Newser) - Ethiopia claims it has smashed a world record in the name of climate change—and the tree planting isn't even done. More than 353 million tree seedlings were planted across the country in just 12 hours as part of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's Green Legacy reforestation campaign, per...

The US Military
Battles a Silent Killer

The US Military Battles a Silent Killer

Heat exposure is hurting and killing service members

(Newser) - Sgt. Sylvester Cline didn't have to die. The 32-year-old Iraq veteran was training at Fort Chaffee in Arkansas in June 2016 under grueling heat when he fell ill and was rushed to a nearby hospital—where heat exposure took his life. And he isn't the military's only...

Iceland Trying to Undo
What the Vikings Did

Jul 17, 2019 2:00 PM CDT

Iceland Trying to Undo What the Vikings Did

The reforestation effort is a slow-moving one

(Newser) - That Iceland is the most lightly forested country in all of Europe is the doing of man, not nature—long-since-deceased man. The AFP reports more than 25% of the island was covered in trees, mostly birch, when the Vikings reached its shores in the late 800s. A century later, only...

Scientists Can't Predict
Barry's Lasting Damage

Jul 14, 2019 9:48 AM CDT

Scientists Can't Predict Barry's Lasting Damage

Region faces rare confluence of events

(Newser) - Hurricane Barry could affect the environment of the Gulf coast and Lower Mississippi Valley in numerous ways, from accelerating runoff of farmland nutrients to toppling trees and damaging wildlife habitat and fisheries, scientists say. But the extent of the damage—and whether it will be at least partially offset by...

Chesapeake Bay Problem
Becomes Political Football

Jul 6, 2019 6:10 PM CDT

Chesapeake Bay Problem Becomes Political Football

And climate change isn't helping

(Newser) - When the Conowingo Dam opened to fanfare nearly a century ago, the massive wall of concrete and steel began its job of harnessing water power in northern Maryland. It also quietly provided a side benefit: trapping sediment and silt before it could flow miles downstream and pollute the Chesapeake Bay,...

'Cheapest' Climate Change Fix Could Start With Some Seeds

'Mind-Blowing'
Fix for Climate
Change: Billions
of Trees

NEW STUDY

Jul 5, 2019 9:12 AM CDT

'Mind-Blowing' Fix for Climate Change: Billions of Trees

Scientists say a massive tree-planting initiative might be most efficient way to stop global warming

(Newser) - There are 3 trillion trees on Earth, but adding between 500 billion and 1.5 trillion more could help solve a big crisis on the horizon. New research in the journal Science proposes fighting climate change by planting enough new trees to cover 3.5 million square miles of land,...

Europe Battles Historic Heat

Jun 28, 2019 4:00 PM CDT

Europe Battles Historic Heat

(Newser) - Western Europe dealt with a heat wave Friday that has reached historic levels. Wildfires raged in Spain , French officials urged citizens to care of themselves and each other in the record heat, and climate officials in Geneva predicted that such extreme weather will only become more intense and last longer....

Beware 'Climate Apartheid'

Jun 25, 2019 4:04 PM CDT

Beware 'Climate Apartheid'

Rich will pay to escape effects of climate change, poor won't be able to: UN expert

(Newser) - As climate change causes food shortages and other hardships, a new problem is likely to be created: "climate apartheid." Philip Alston, the UN's special rapporteur on extreme poverty, coined the term in a new report warning of the phenomenon. The wealthy, he said, will be able to...

'Militia Threats'
Force State
Capitol to
Shut Down

Jun 22, 2019 9:30 AM CDT

'Militia Threats' Force State Capitol to Shut Down

It all stems from a cap-and-trade climate bill

(Newser) - Oregon's state capitol is closed Saturday, and it's no holiday. State senators say they made the move after getting threats from militia groups opposed to a cap-and-trade climate bill, the Washington Post reports. State Senate President Peter Courtney announced the shutdown Friday: "The Oregon State Police have...

Old Spy Images Reveal
Bad News for Himalayas

Jun 19, 2019 3:45 PM CDT

Old Spy Images Reveal Bad News for Himalayas

Scientists use them to calculate the melting of glaciers

(Newser) - Cold War era spy satellite images are showing scientists that glaciers on the Himalayas are now melting about twice as fast as they used to, the AP reports. The Asian mountain range, which includes Mount Everest, has been losing ice at a rate of about 1% a year since 2000,...

In This City, a Visitor Not Seen
for More Than 40 Years

Jun 19, 2019 12:29 PM CDT

In This City, a Visitor Not Seen for More Than 40 Years

Tired, hungry-looking polar bear turned up in Norilsk, Russia

(Newser) - For more than 40 years, there's been no sign of polar bears in Siberia's Norilsk. That changed this week, with Russia's northernmost city putting out a warning notice Tuesday to residents that one had been spotted wandering around in the suburbs, way south of its natural habitat,...

More Bad News as
Canadian Arctic Melts

NEW STUDY

Jun 19, 2019 9:30 AM CDT

More Bad News as Canadian Arctic Melts

Permafrost thawing 70 years sooner than expected, with consequences

(Newser) - In 2016, researchers from the University of Alaska Fairbanks hopped in a plane, heading for remote sites in the Canadian Arctic. "What we saw was amazing," Vladimir Romanovsky tells Reuters . "It's an indication that the climate is now warmer than at any time in the last...

Photo of Dogs Goes Viral,
and Sparks a Conversation

Jun 18, 2019 10:10 AM CDT

Photo of Dogs Goes Viral, and Sparks a Conversation

They're walking through meltwater in Greenland

(Newser) - It's no wonder the photo went viral: The sled dogs appear to be walking on water. The story behind the June 13 image is making the rounds as well. It was taken by Danish scientist Steffen Olsen in northwest Greenland, where the dogs were traversing an ice sheet roughly...

Farmers Drown
Their Sorrows
in Beer and
Fried Chicken

Jun 16, 2019 4:29 PM CDT

Farmers Drown Their Sorrows in Beer and Fried Chicken

Illinois farmers gather for a 'Prevent Plant Party'

(Newser) - Illinois farmers gathered to tell their tales of woe Thursday at—of all places—The Happy Spot. With heavy rains and record floods forcing them to leave millions of acres unseeded, corn farmers gathered with sellers of equipment, chemicals, and seed at the Deer Grove restaurant to swap stories over...

Warming Could Make Siberia
a 'Land of Opportunity': Study

Jun 10, 2019 6:18 PM CDT

Warming Could Make Siberia a 'Land of Opportunity': Study

Permafrost could shrink significantly by 2080s

(Newser) - Climate change could thaw the frozen landscape of Asian Russia enough by the 2080s to make it more habitable for humans, new research has found, and possibly lead to Siberia becoming the center of Russian civilization. A team from the Krasnoyarsk Federal Research Center in Russia and the National Institute...

Pompeo Sees
Ways to Handle
Climate Change,
Including Moving

Jun 9, 2019 10:08 AM CDT

Pompeo Sees Ways to Handle Climate Change, Including Moving

Economy needs to support innovation, secretary of state says

(Newser) - "The climate's been changing a long time," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in expressing optimism that the challenges of climate change will be met. "We will do the things necessary as the climate changes," he told the Washington Times . Among the steps that were...

Oil Pipeline Stymied
Despite Court Victory

Jun 8, 2019 10:30 AM CDT

Oil Pipeline Stymied Despite Court Victory

Seems it's too late in the year to start building

(Newser) - An appeals court has lifted a judge's injunction that blocked construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to the US, but the developer has said it's too late to begin work this year and environmental groups vowed to keep fighting it, the AP reports. A three-judge...

Charles Had 90 Minutes to
Change Trump's Mind, Didn't

the rundown

Jun 5, 2019 10:35 AM CDT

Charles Had 90 Minutes to Change Trump's Mind, Didn't

President, Piers Morgan talk climate change in wide-ranging interview

(Newser) - President Trump's sit-down with Prince Charles was supposed to last 15 minutes. It went for 90, but that wasn't enough to get Trump on board with Charles' climate stance. In a Good Morning Britain interview that aired Wednesday, the president answered a slew of questions from Piers Morgan....

Humans May Be Headed for
Extinction 'in Most Horrible Way'

NEW STUDY

Jun 5, 2019 6:21 AM CDT

Humans May Be Headed for Extinction 'in Most Horrible Way'

Wars, lethal heat, water shortages could be 30 years off: authors

(Newser) - Numerous in-depth reports on climate change have failed to show in just how dire a predicament humans find themselves—essentially inches from total destruction—according to a new paper from climate researchers, one a former fossil fuel executive. They write that there is a "high likelihood of human civilization...

Here's Joe Biden's
$5T 'Big Idea'
on Climate

Jun 4, 2019 11:05 AM CDT

Here's Joe Biden's $5T 'Big Idea' on Climate

He says it will get us to net zero emissions by 2050

(Newser) - Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is pitching a $5 trillion-plus climate proposal that he says would lead the US to net zero emissions of carbon pollution by 2050, the AP reports. Biden's plan calls for $1.7 trillion in federal spending over 10 years, with the rest of the...