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Disease and climate change: What could the future look like? 5/4/2020  By Laura Watson Coronavirus is on all our minds right now – but what does our changing climate mean for the future of outbreaks? Disease incidence and climate change … Continue reading →

Michelle Lewis – Apr. 4th 2020 9:00 am ET Arthur Wyns, a climate change adviser to the World Health Organization (WHO), wrote an op-ed for the World Economic Forum about how climate change and the coronavirus are linked. You can … Continue reading →

Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC) Apr 3, 2020 Presented by Heather Goldstone, Chief Communications Officer of Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC), with opening remarks by Phil Duffy, President & Executive Director of WHRC. The novel coronavirus pandemic has been compared … Continue reading →

Hot Mess Jul 12, 2018 Over the past few centuries, a handful of countries reaped the benefits of fossil fuels and developed their economies, emitting a lot of greenhouse gases along the way. We now know these gases have changed … Continue reading →

Hot Mess Sep 13, 2018 Peril & Promise is a public media initiative from WNET telling human stories of climate change and its solutions. Learn more at: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/peril-and-pro…

UN Climate Change Nov 7, 2017 On Indigenous People’s Day at COP23, UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa joined representatives of indigenous peoples assembled in Bonn, acknowledging their part in being a solution to the problem of climate change. … Continue reading →

AFP News Agency May 1, 2019 In Alaska, indigenous coast communities are under increased threat from soil erosion, made worse by the effects of climate change. In the village of Napakiak, residents have been moving away from the shoreline for … Continue reading →

Climate State Jun 8, 2019 With news breaking that Alaska just had its warmest March to May on record with a statewide average temperature of 32.6°F, 8.6°F above the long-term average – the previous warmest spring in Alaska was in … Continue reading →

  Lockdowns and distancing won’t save the world from warming. But amid this crisis, we have a chance to build a better future. By Meehan Crist Ms. Crist is writer in residence in biological sciences at Columbia University. March 27, … Continue reading →

https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/the-nature-of-crisis-coronavirus-climate-change Photograph by Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / Getty An idea beloved of the technorati is that we are actually living not on the earth we seem to inhabit but in a simulation. Elon Musk has said that it’s “most likely” the … Continue reading →