climate

Health & Safety

News brief: U.K. monitors Russia-Ukraine crisis, COVID cases, massive snowstorm

7:03am January 31, 2022

The U.K. may send more troops to Eastern Europe to deter Russia from invading Ukraine. New COVID-19 cases are falling significantly nationwide. Massachusetts was hit the hardest by a weekend blizzard.

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National

Blizzard conditions batter Northeast

5:20pm January 29, 2022

The Northeast has been getting hammared by a powerful winter storm all day. Tens of thousands of Massachusetts residents are without power, and many areas have well over a foot of snow.

A man fishes near docked oil drilling platforms in 2020 in Port Aransas, Texas. A federal judge has revoked oil and gas leases sold in the Gulf of Mexico in November, saying the Interior Department did not take into account its impact on climate change.

A federal judge canceled major oil and gas leases over climate change

9:58am January 28, 2022

by Nathan Rott

The ruling revokes leases sold in the Gulf of Mexico in the largest oil and gas lease sale in U.S. history. It says the Interior Department failed to consider the greenhouse gases it would produce.

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Gas stoves emit pollution into your house and are connected to a production and supply system that leaks the powerful greenhouse gas methane during drilling, fracking, processing and transport.

Gas stoves leak climate-warming methane even when they're off

5:49pm January 27, 2022

by Jeff Brady

A study finds tiny leaks from loose fittings added up to more emissions than when stoves were in use. The impact of U.S. gas stoves on climate change amounts to the same effect as a half-million cars.

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Environment

Boone municipal buildings go climate-neutral eight years ahead of schedule

4:40pm January 27, 2022

by Eddie Garcia

The town of Boone is hitting some of its climate goals eight years ahead of schedule.

National

Tempe creates an emergency response center to be a refuge in a climate disaster

6:09am January 26, 2022

by Anthony Wallace

Officials in the Arizona city are worried about suffering a massive power grid failure like Texas did a year ago. The city is developing "resilience hubs" with community groups to help when needed.

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Politics & Government

GOP senator from North Dakota wants to tackle climate change

6:09am January 26, 2022

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Sen. Kevin Cramer of North Dakota about climate change. Unlike some Republicans, Cramer says he's willing to combat the problem by reducing carbon emissions.

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Critics say infrastructure projects won't make a big enough impact on climate change

5:23pm January 25, 2022

by David Schaper

As Washington gears up to dole out hundreds of billions of dollars in new infrastructure funds, critics say not enough will go to projects addressing climate change and issues of racial inequality.

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Red Cross teams set up a temporary shelter in Kanokupolu, western Tongatapu, on Friday as the Tonga island group grapples with the aftermath from the recent underwater volcanic eruption.

Internet to Tonga's main island cut by volcano could be restored in 2 weeks

10:54pm January 24, 2022

by The Associated Press

A second, domestic fiber-optic cable that connects Tonga's smaller islands to the main island could prove much more difficult to repair.

Rosie Brennan of the United States competes in a Tour de Ski, women's 10-kilometer freestyle, interval start cross-country ski event, in Dobbiaco (Toblach), Italy, on Jan. 5, 2021. She is planning to compete at the Beijing Winter Olympics next month.

Could the world become too warm to hold Winter Olympics?

7:16pm January 21, 2022

by Jaclyn Diaz

If nations don't address high greenhouse gas emissions, by the 2080s, all but one of the 21 cities that previously hosted the Winter Games would be able to do so again, a new study has found.

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