Climate

Sea level changes could drastically affect Calif. beaches by the end of the century

5:28am August 22, 2023

A new report finds that California could lose most of its beaches by the year 2100, due to rising sea levels. NPR's A Martinez goes to the beach to find out what can be done.

There has been a lot of extreme weather lately. What's the cause?

5:28am August 22, 2023

Temperature records are falling left and right. Wildfires, hurricanes, heat waves and droughts are exacerbated by human-caused climate change.

National

Coral rescued from heatwaves in Florida have made babies in a lab

6:30pm August 21, 2023

by Jenny Staletovich

Scientists racing to protect coral amid an ocean heat wave that is blistering reefs off south Florida got some rare good news this month. Some of the rescued corals made babies in their lab.

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Assessing the damage of tropical storm Hilary

4:55pm August 21, 2023

by Liz Baker

In Los Angeles, lots of people spent the last couple days anxious about the arrival of tropical storm Hilary. Here's a look at what Southern California expected, versus what it experienced.

A worker from the Coachella Valley Water Department surveys debris flowing across a road following heavy rains from Tropical Storm Hilary, in Rancho Mirage, Calif., on Monday.

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Tropical Storm Hilary moves on from California, leaving a trail of damage and debris

3:12pm August 21, 2023

The first tropical storm to hit Southern California in more than 80 years sparked road closures, school cancellations and power outages on Sunday evening before moving north to Nevada.

Marine scientists Jan-Olaf Meynecke attaches video-enabled tracking tags to humpback whales near Brisbane, Australia. While collecting data for a larger project on the whales' migration patterns and climate change, Meynecke and his colleagues discovered a new behavior they call "sand rolling."

This video from a humpback 'whale spa' shows skin care is serious — and social

7:00am August 21, 2023

by Carrie Feibel

The footage of humpback whales exfoliating their skin with sand offer new insight into these animals' complex lifestyles deep beneath the ocean

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Motorists leave their vehicle stuck on a flooded road during heavy rains from Tropical Storm Hilary in Palm Springs, Calif., on Sunday.

Tropical Storm Hilary unleashes heavy rains and flooding on Southern California

9:29pm August 20, 2023

by Juliana Kim

Heavy rain associated with the system is creating "catastrophic and life-threatening flooding," the weather service said. Some roadways in Southern California have flooded.

After a relatively quiet start to the Atlantic hurricane season, the National Hurricane Center was monitoring multiple storm systems in the Atlantic on Sunday.

Tropical Storm Emily takes shape in the Atlantic, as storm activity starts to warm up

3:22pm August 20, 2023

by Jonathan Franklin

As the season is nearing its peak, the Atlantic Ocean has suddenly become very active with several storms that meteorologists and weather forecasters are watching.

In Suzanne Horsley's wellness classes at Toll Gate Grammar School in Pennington, N.J., elementary students learn about the health impacts of climate change. They play games that demonstrate what they have learned.

New Jersey requires climate change education. A year in, here's how it's going

12:27pm August 20, 2023

by Seyma Bayram

In 2020, New Jersey became the first state in the country to require climate change education across grade levels and in most subjects. The standards were rolled out this past year.

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The McDougall Creek wildfire burns in the hills West Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, on Thursday as seen from Kelowna.

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Yellowknife residents wonder if wildfires are the new normal as western Canada burns

10:22pm August 19, 2023

by Kat Lonsdorf

Nearly all 20,000 residents of Yellowknife, the capital city of the Northwest Territories, have evacuated, while thousands more in neighboring British Columbia have fled, too.