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The infrastructure law includes $200 million to help native fish

6:43pm November 03, 2023

by Kaleb Roedel

The bipartisan infrastructure law isn't just building projects for people, it also includes $200 million to restore native fish habitat, to help species better weather climate change.

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This week in science: Melting arctic ice, sea star anatomy and sleep deprived mice

4:28pm November 02, 2023

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Regina Barber and Aaron Scott of NPR's Short Wave about Antarctica's melting ice, the weird anatomy of sea stars, and how a sleepless night can ease depression in mice.

A man walks over his collapsed mud house after heavy monsoon rains in Pakistan in 2022. Climate change makes heavy rain more common, because a hotter atmosphere can hold more moisture.

As climate threats grow, poor countries still aren't getting enough money to prepare

7:10am November 02, 2023

by Michael Copley

To adapt to the threats developing countries are facing from climate change, the United Nations says they'll need at least 10 times more money than the public funding they received in 2021.

Summer storms created rivers and lakes in California's Death Valley

4:34pm November 01, 2023

Death Valley's Badwater Basin is full of water after an epic year of rain and snow in California - and wildflowers are blooming extraordinarily late in the season.

Burying power lines could help prevent Californian wildfires. Who should pay for it?

4:28pm November 01, 2023

by Kevin Stark / KQED

Pacific Gas & Electric — whose equipment started some of California's deadliest wildfires — has proposed burying power lines in some at-risk areas. Local regulators have pushed back, citing costs.

Sand flies carry the protozoan parasites that spread leishmaniasis. It was thought to be a disease of tropical climates, but leishmaniasis-causing parasites have now been found living and circulating in the United States.

A 'tropical disease' carried by sand flies is confirmed in a new country: the U.S.

2:27pm November 01, 2023

by Max Barnhart

Leishmaniasis, a disease spread by a parasite carried by sand flies, is generally considered a tropical disease. Now, thanks to climate change, new research finds it's endemic to the United States.

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People in Acapulco are trying to pick up the pieces after Hurricane Otis

9:25pm October 31, 2023

by Eyder Peralta

Hurricane Otis has devastated Acapulco, Mexico. The streets are full of desperate people as the government ramps up its response. So far, 48 people are reported dead and 47 are missing.

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It's unlikely that humans will achieve global warming goals. But all is not lost

6:10pm October 30, 2023

by Rebecca Hersher

A study in Nature suggests the amount of carbon that humans can still emit and still keep warming to 1.5 °C may be exhausted within the next 6 years.

Two women embrace and cry as they look out over a burned area in Lahaina, Hawaii in August 2023. A new survey finds most Americans expect the impacts of climate change to worsen in the next 30 years, as climate scientists warn.

Here's how Americans feel about climate change

6:04pm October 25, 2023

by Rebecca Hersher

The majority of Americans think climate change will kill and displace a large number of people in the U.S. in the next 30 years, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center.

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'The Comfort of Crows' is fuel to restore spirts in dealing with ecological grief

9:53am October 25, 2023

by Barbara J. King

Here the New York Times columnist and author of Late Migrations and Graceland Margaret Renkl brings alive in 52 chapters her love for the animals and plants in her yard and nearby parks in Tennessee.