Politics The world’s climate catastrophe worsens amid the pandemic While countries went on lockdown, the Arctic caught on fire.
Impacts www.nytimes.com ‘Overtaken by aliens’: India faces another plague as locusts swarm Blizzards of bugs are descending on India at an already tough time. Scientists say climate change is making the infestation worse.
Impacts insideclimatenews.org Locust swarms, some 3 times the size of New York City, are eating their way across two continents Climate change is worsening the largest plague of the crop-killing insects in 50 years, threatening famine in Africa, the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent.
Impacts www.nytimes.com ‘Like an umbrella had covered the sky': Locust swarms despoil Kenya At first, villagers thought the dark, dense blot in the sky was a harmless cloud. Then came the terrifying realization that the locusts had arrived.
Top Story www.nationalgeographic.com East Africa’s plague of locusts and the bizarre climate science behind it Human activity has made an ocean circulation pattern misbehave—triggering a weird confluence of events that has caused the infestations.
As Biden prepares to block the sale of U.S. Steel to Nippon Steel, pollution concerns persist in Pennsylvania
A Pennsylvania fracking company with more than 2,000 environmental violations selected for federal environmental justice funding
