The pace of rebuilding after the Santa Cruz Mountains wildfire in 2000 bodes ill for the likely speed of Los Angeles reconstruction.
Read more...More and more homeowners are understandably worried about what insurance increases might look like in the face of intensifying climate risks.
Read more...Why are US environmental groups so silent about the empire’s global warmaking?
Read more...Trump’s nominees are backed by major players in the world of climate obstruction – from Project 2025 and Koch network fixtures to oil-soaked Christian nationalists.
Read more...Some Net Zero hopium. Reader evaluations encouraged.
Read more...More hidden than rising seas or heatwaves, long-term changes in the nutritional value of plants could be even more disruptive.
Read more...Canada plans to shut down open-net-pen salmon farming by 2029. But removing aquaculture infrastructure is challenging and costly.
Read more...On the growth of a plastisphere in the Antarctic.
Read more...The International Energy Agency forecasts that data center demand for energy will more than double by 2026, with AI the big driver.
Read more...Those experiencing a climate-change-induced disaster wind up having more polarized beliefs about the role of human action.
Read more...Scientists and companies increasingly support blocking some sunlight to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
Read more...The COP16 biodiversity conference included Big Tech pushing black box “generative biology” AI-created DNA and related financial markets
Read more...What would make a critical mass of Americans, marinating in a rugged individualist culture, want to become their neighbors’ keepers?
Read more...Seriously, WTF is wrong with optimists? Why are they so bent on stamping out pessimism?
Read more...Small decentralized desalination plants hold the promise of low enough cost to use on brackish agricultural water.
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