by Matt Rozsa | Oct 25, 2024 | Original Source Salon.com
Russia has helped spread false and misleading information on the internet about Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton, two climate change-fueled natural disasters that recently struck the American southeast.
According to the recent report, which was published by the London-based think tank the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), social media accounts linked to Russian state-affiliated media spread content focusing on right -wing themes.... Read Original Article
by Matt Rozsa | Oct 24, 2024 | Original Source Salon.com
More than eighty Nobel Prize laureates published an open letter on Thursday declaring that the scientific policies of Vice President Kamala Harris are “vastly superior” to the ones proposed by her opponent, former President Donald Trump.
Representing scientists from fields including chemistry, economics, medicine and physics, the 82 scholars said Trump’s opposition to federal funding for the sciences, independent universities, immigration rights and international collaboration “would undermine future U.S.... Read Original Article
by Matt Rozsa | Oct 24, 2024 | Original Source Salon.com
Many people don’t need something as dramatic as Hurricane Milton to tell them our climate is spiraling out of control. It’s evident everywhere, from the U.K. recently reporting its second worst harvest on record to Antarctica turning green to the U.S. spending $150 billion a year on climate change-related extreme weather events.... Read Original Article
by Matt Rozsa | Oct 22, 2024 | Original Source Salon.com
Julie France is a 34-year-old Millennial in Denver, a high-altitude Colorado city theoretically safer than other places from one of the most conspicuous ravages of climate change: hurricanes, such as Helene and Milton, the pair of hurricanes responsible for recently battering the Southeastern United States. Aware of climate change from a very young age, France has spent her life making choices about driving, meat consumption, buying locally and other carbon-sensitive issues with the global crisis in mind.... Read Original Article
by Matt Rozsa | Oct 22, 2024 | Original Source Salon.com
A recent study in the journal Nature Climate Change found that severe increases in aridity caused by climate change is drying out frog habitats across the globe. In fact, unless humans significantly reduce burning fossil fuels, the international team of scientists found that by 2080 to 2100, anywhere from 7 percent to more than one-third of frog habitats will become too arid for survival.... Read Original Article
