Newsletter Image by Lukas_Rychvalsky from Pixabay Here are the places most at risk from record-shattering heat It’s the regions of the world that haven’t yet experienced an off-the-charts heat wave that we should worry about, a new scientific study argues.
Newslettercommons.wikimedia.org Europe seeing more heat waves than other parts of the world A new study confirmed that European heat events are increasing in frequency and cumulative intensity over the last four decades.
www.flickr.com Alarming levels of mercury are found in old growth Amazon forest The findings, related to gold mining in Peru, provide new evidence of how people are altering ecosystems in dangerous ways around the world.
www.nytimes.com Could the pandemic prompt an 'epidemic of loss' of women in the sciences? Even before the pandemic, many female scientists felt unsupported in their fields. Now, some are hitting a breaking point.
Causes www.nytimes.com U.S. cities are vastly undercounting emissions, researchers find Inconsistent and flawed data is undercutting efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from American cities, according to a new study.
Impacts www.nytimes.com What’s happening to the monarch butterfly population? “Something’s going on in early spring,” a professor said, and researchers are trying to solve the mystery.
Impacts www.nytimes.com Rising seas will erase more cities by 2050, new research shows Scientists devised a better way to calculate land elevations and their findings are dire: Far more cities will be inundated by climate change than previously thought.
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
