Climate in the News

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Stories of the week from around the Salish Sea, nation, or world.

•  The Pacific Northwest, Built for Mild Summers, Is Scorching Yet Again  | The New York Times

•  Schneider Springs Fire explodes in size overnight, now at 13,665 acres  | KOMO News

•  Hospital capacity concerns grow as heat wave approaches  | KOMO News

• *audio*  Scientists issue a climate code red  | The Guardian

•  Officials urging people to be prepared ahead of upcoming heat wave in Washington  | Komo News

•  Washington sees more wildfires earlier in the season this year compared to 2020  | King 5

•  For The 1st Time In Recorded History, Smoke From Wildfires Reaches The North Pole  | NPR

•  3 Things To Know About What Scientists Say About Our Future Climate  | NPR

•  Global food supplies will suffer as temperatures rise - climate crisis report  | The Guardian

•  UN climate report is our 'final wake-up call,' say environmental experts  | CNBC

Relevant stories from around the Salish Sea.

•  How the PUD kept things humming during the record heat wave  | HeraldNet

•  Quinault, Suquamish Tribe Highlight Climate Crisis in Front of US Senate  | The Daily Chronicle

•  Washington facing massive loss of kelp, study finds  | King 5

•  Ocean acidification: The threat to Washington shellfish, and how the industry is adapting  | King 5

•  Small fish, big barriers: A county confronts climate change  | Whidbey News-Times

•  For tribes, climate change fight is about saving culture  | HeraldNet

Relevant headlines from across the nation.

•  US, UAE say they'll invest in Middle East decarbonization  | The Hill

•  'A bold agenda': hopes rise for US climate change reversal as Deb Haaland sworn in  | The Guardian

•  Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians receives grants for climate and clean energy projects  | Lake Country News

•  University researchers look into ways to help forests adapt to the climate crisis  | The Minnesota Daily

Interesting climate or environmental news, including international stories.

•  How Airplane Contrails Are Helping Make the Planet Warmer  | YaleEnvironment 360

•  Indigenous peoples by far the best guardians of forests -- UN report  | The Guardian

•  Sámi reindeer herders file lawsuit against Norway windfarm  | The Guardian

Comprehensive stories exploring climate change.

•  The race to zero: can America reach net-zero emissions by 2050?  | The Guardian

•  How Climate Migration Will Reshape America  | The New York Times Magazine

•  As Bering Sea ice melts, Alaskans, scientists and Seattle’s fishing fleet witness changes ‘on a massive scale’  | The Seattle Times

•  2°C: Beyond the Limit: The climate chain reaction that threatens the heart of the Pacific  | Washington Post

•  Select Committee Democrats Release ‘Solving the Climate Crisis’, A Congressional Roadmap for Ambitious Climate Action  | House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis

•  An indigenous tribe in Washington is strategically placing beavers around to help salmon  | Business Insider

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•  What is a heat dome?  | NOAA

•  Climate Change: do more now or risk catastrophe, warns energy agency  | The Guardian

•  Examining the Viability of Planting Trees to Help Mitigate Climate Change  | NASA Global Climate Change

•  New research identifies regions with worsening "snow droughts" around the world  | NOAA Climate Program Office

•  Ocean heatwaves dramatically shift habitats  | NOAA Research News

•  NASA Studies How Arctic Wildfires Change the World  | NASA Global Climate Change

•  Seeking drought relief: The Navajo turn to NASA  | NASA Global Climate Change

•  Snow Drought: What is a Snow Drought?  | National Integrated Drought Information System

•  Environmental impact of bottled water 'up to 3,500 times greater than tap water'  | The Guardian

•  Wildfire fighters advance against biggest US blaze amid dire warnings  | The Guardian

•  New study puts disparities of climate change on the map  | Phys.org

•  Study evaluates biodiversity impacts of alternative energy strategies  | Phys.org

•  Greenland to abandon all future oil exploration  | Mining.com

•  Climate, Not Conflict. Madagascar's Famine is the First in Modern History to be Solely Caused by Global Warming  | TIME

•  Climate change to fuel increase in human-wildlife conflict  | Phys.org

•  The Deadly Heat Wave Is Triggering Dozens of Wildfires in Western Canada  | NPR

•  PHOTOS: The Record-Breaking Heat Wave That's Scorching the Pacific Northwest  | NPR

•  A heatwave in Seatte? Extreme weather is no longer 'unprecedented' - it has become a norm  | The Guardian

•  Exceptional heat hits Pacific Northwest  | Phys.org

•  How did a small town in Canada become one of the hottest places on Earth?  | The Guardian

•  'Doomsday Glacier' may be more stable than initially feared  | Phys.org

•  Future wood use assures long-term climate benefit from commercial forests  | Phys.org

•  Aviation's contribution to cutting climate change likely to be small  | Phys.org

•  Earth is not trapping an 'unprecedented' amount of heat, NASA says  | The Washington Post

•  This melting glacier was already the biggest source of sea level rise. Then things got worse.  | The Washington Postv

•  'Mega-heat wave' is peaking in the West, breaking records and intensifying drought, fires  | The Washington Post

•  'It was sad having to leave': Climate crisis splits Alaskan town in half  | The Guardian

•  Rocky mountain forests now burning more than any point in past 2,000 years  | Phys.org

•  Arctic warming three times faster than the planet, report finds  | Phys.org

•  Earth Is Barreling Toward 1.5 Degrees Celsius Of Warming, Scientists Warn  | NPR

•  The Science of Climate Change Explained: Facts, Evidence and Proof  | The New York Times

•  Researchers find Greenland glacial meltwaters rich in mercury  | Phys.org

•  Speed at which the world's glaciers are melting has doubled in 20 years  | The Guardian

•  Visualized: glaciers then and now  | The Guardian

•  What we lose when we lose our glaciers  | The Guardian

•  Freshwater salt pollution threatens ecosystem and human water security  | Phys.org

•  Carbon emissions to soar in 2021 by second highest rate in history  | The Guardian

•  With climate anxiety on the rise, therapists are learning how to cope  | The Guardian

•  Biden to set major climate change goal this week  | The Hill

•  People have shaped Earth's ecology for the last 12,000 years, mostly sustainably  | Phys.org

•  Tensions emerge between green groups and Biden over Dakota Access Pipeline  | The Hill

•  New Zealand introduces climate change law for financial firms in world first  | Reuters

•  Joe Biden's $1.2bn budget for Green Climate Fund falls short of campaigner demands  | Climate Home News

•  Exploration of ocean currents beneath the 'Doomsday Glacier'  | Phys.org

•  Native communities confront painful choice: move away, or succumb to rising waters?  | The Guardian

•  It Was an Old Apple Orchard. Now It Could Be the Future of Clean Hydrogen Energy in Washington State  | Inside Climate News

•  Bill Gates is the biggest private owner of farmland in the United States. Why?  | The Guardian

•  Carbon dioxide levels in atmosphere reach record high  | The Guardian

•  Hospitals try to curb astronomical emissions as pandemic brings new challenges  | The Guardian

•  Evidence of Antarctic glacier's tipping point confirmed for first time  | Phys.org

•  Increased winter snowmelt threatens western water resources  | Phys.org

•  Algal blooms target sea otter hearts  | The Daily Climate

•  Once Imperiled, America's Bald Eagle Populations Are Soaring  | NPR

•  Carbon labeling reduces our carbon dioxide footprint--even for those who try to remain uninformed  | Phys.org

•  Block by block, he aims to fight injustice and save the planet  | The Washington Post

•  Average westerner's eating habit lead to loss of four trees every year  | The Guardian

•  Urban agriculture can help, but not solve, city food security problems  | Phys.org

•  The US Wants the EU to Delay Imposing Trade Penalties on Carbon-Intensive Imports, But Is Considering Imposing Its Own  | Inside Climate News

•  Inside Clean Energy: Well That Was Fast: Volkswagen Quickly Catching Up to Tesla  | Inside Climate News

•  Carbon markets are proving resilient to the coronavirus pandemic  | Climate Home News

•  Climate change damaging North America's largest temperate rainforest, harming salmon  | Phys.org

•  Climate change: 'Forever plant' seagrass faces uncertain future  | BBC News

•  How to build support for ambitious climate action in four steps  | Phys.org

•  Covid-19 paused climate emissions -- but they're rising again  | BBC Future

•  One Of Biden's Biggest Climate Change Challenges? The Oceans  | NPR

•  'Reading the writing on the wall': why Wall Street is acting on the climate crisis  | The Guardian

•  Study Finds Wildfire Smoke More Harmful To Humans Than Pollution From Cars  | NPR

•  Average Arctic Ocean temperatures in February warmer than past two decades  | The Hill

•  Land could be worth more left to nature than when farmed, study finds  | The Guardian

• *audio*  Biden Faces 'Balancing Act' Advancing Clean Energy Alongside Labor Allies  | NPR

•  Oceans were stressed preceding abrupt, prehistoric global warming  | Phys.org

•  A huge iceberg that's bigger than New York City broke off near a UK base in Antarctica  | CNN

•  Reversing Trump, Interior Department Moves Swiftly on Climate Change  | The New York Times

•  Fossil fuel cars make 'hundreds of times' more waste than electric cars  | The Guardian

•  'Run The Oil Industry In Reverse': Fighting Climate Change By Farming Kelp  | NPR

•  What Happened To The Butterflies? Climate, Deforestation Threaten Monarch Migration  | NPR

•  Record-high Arctic freshwater will flow to Labrador Sea, affecting local and global oceans  | Phys.org

•  Haaland, With a Key Vote in Her Column, Appears Headed for Confirmation  | The New York Times

•  What a 1900s Wildlife Survey Reveals About Climate Change  | WIRED

•  As US formally rejoins the Paris Agreement, eyes turn to 2030 emissions goal  | Climate Home News

•  Avalanche Warnings Are Issued in Northwest  | The New York Times

•  How fires have spread to previously untouched parts of the world  | The Guardian

•  Effects of past ice ages more widespread than previously thought  | Phys.org

• *audio*  Saving Sea Level Records: What Historical Records Tell Us About The Rising Ocean  | NPR

•  40% of climate benefits? Explaining Biden's EJ promise  | E&E News

•  The Energy 202: Frozen wind turbines aren't why Texas can't keep the lights on  | The Washington Post

•  Climate Change Is Complex. We've Got Answers to Your Questions  | The New York Times

•  Climate Change Is Making Allergy Season Worse  | Smithsonian Magazine

•  Drought restrictions had side benefit: Lower risk of mosquito-borne disease  | Phys.org

• *audio  Assessing Biden's Climate Plan  | The New York Times

•  How Climate Change May Affect Your Health  | The New York Times

•  Study indicates US cities underestimate their GHG emissions by nearly 20%  | Phys.org

•  As Warming Oceans Bring Tough Times to California Crab Fishers, Scientists say Diversifying is Key to Survival  | Inside Climate News

•  General Motors Aims To Be Carbon Neutral by 2040  | NPR

•  Global ice loss accelerating at record rate, study finds  | The Guardian

•  Study demonstrates interconnectedness of Arctic and North Pacific on multimillennial timescales  | Phys.org

•  Worried about Earth's future? Well, the outlook is worse than even scientists can grasp  | Phys.org

•  'The lost years': Climate damage that occurred on Trump's watch will endure long after he is gone  | CNN

•  President-elect Biden to end Keystone XL pipeline in fight against climate change  | The Washington Post

•  2020 ties 2016 as hottest year on record  | Phys.org

•  Wildfires having a devastating effect on air quality in Western US, study find  | The Guardian

•  Supreme Court Considers Suit Against Oil Companies  | NPR

•  Insect populations suffering death by 1,000 cuts, say scientists  | The Guardian

•  Climate change has cost the U.S. billions of dollars in flood damage, study finds  | CNBC

•  What Would It Take to Run a City on 100 Percent Clean Energy?  | WIRED

•  Climate crisis: 2020 was joint hottest year ever recorded  | The Guardian

•  Climate change: Alaskan wilderness opens up for oil exploration  | BBC News

•  How the Department of Defense could help win the war on climate change  | Politico

•  What is renewable energy?  | LiveScience

•  Climate crisis will cause falling humidity in global cities - study  | The Guardian

•  Soil moisture exerts a negative feedback on surface water availability in drylands: study  | Phys.org

•  A wing and a prayer: how birds are coping with climate crisis  | The Guardian