Research, climate change, and environmental issues.
Summer 2024 is now the hottest on record, another milestone marking an accelerating global climate crisis. According to NASA, the three-month period from June through August this year averaged 0.2°F above any previously recorded summer; it eclipses the previous record set just last year, in 2023. This temperature rise has been provoked mainly by human-made…
Hurricane Francine churned into Louisiana early Wednesday, September 11, 2024, with powerful winds, heavy rain, and life-threatening storm surges. Hurricane Francine, passing over southern Louisiana as a Category 2 hurricane, caused destruction, flash flood emergencies, and plunged hundreds of thousands into darkness. The storm made landfall in Terrebonne Parish at around 5 p.m. with continuous…
These efforts to promote cleaner alternatives received a major fillip this month when U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack expressed confidence that by January 2024, a new clean fuels tax credit will be in place. The development falls squarely under the Biden administration’s broader agenda of combating climate change and shifting the country toward greener…
For decades, the Antarctic region has long been regarded as one of the most extreme environments on the planet. Now, record-low winter sea-ice coverage is about to set a new mark for the second year in a row. This shocking turn of events underlines more and more how global climate change is taking a toll…
