Vero Beach Press Journal
Vero Beach, FL:
Florida faces 'existential' decision about climate change
“We have to be leaders, since we’re some of the most vulnerable people here in our country to climate change and sea level rise."
5 facts on water and climate change
Climate change is about much more than polar bears – it is about the lives of millions of children around the world who are at risk of climate related disasters – such as storms, floods and droughts. On World Water Day, we kicked off a virtual #ClimateChain campaign, with people around the world standing untied for action and protecting the futures of children. The effects of climate change are first felt through water – through droughts, floods or storms. When these disasters hit…
How to reduce home water use in an age of drought and climate change
Even if you don’t live in an area with mandatory conservation measures, cutting back on your use can save water, energy and money.
What to do when climate change poses a risk to your water supply
Assessing and tackling the risk of contamination will be essential to business success in the 21st-century economy
Water wars: How conflicts over resources are set to rise amid climate change
Conserving forests, wetlands and watersheds, including those around cities, can help absorb rainfall, helping stem crop losses from flooding and drought.
How will climate change affect rainfall?
As the world warms, rainfall will increase overall but changes in distribution will increase droughts as well as floods
How to treat wastewater in the climate change era?
If you manage a wastewater treatment plant, you already know it’s time to get serious about climate change. Utilities are under pressure to deliver more with less, especially when it comes to energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. Whether your forecast calls for intense droughts or storm clouds ahead, the silver lining is that plenty of solutions are readily available.
How Will Climate Change Impact Water?
Access to fresh water supplies is a critically important societal challenge posed by climate change. Center for Climate and Life scientists examine how changing…
Why Climate Change Could Make Hurricane Impact Worse
Rising sea levels means higher waters during powerful storms
How water is helping to end 'the first climate change war'
A pioneering irrigation project in North Darfur is bringing people together again
How will the West solve a water crisis if climate change continues to get worse?
A decades-long megadrought spurred by climate change is drying the West, but will it run out of water?
Where should I live? The search for a home safe from climate change
The climate crisis is raising a question for millions: Is anywhere safe from the climate emergency? Some say this city is the new "climate refuge."
How ‘Water: A Biography’ addresses climate change, resource security and more
Giulio Boccaletti , an expert on environmental concerns, says the choices about our landscape are political ones.
Droughts, Heat Waves and Floods: How to Tell When Climate Change Is to Blame
Weather forecasters will soon provide instant assessments of global warming’s influence on extreme events
How Climate Change Could Make Extreme Rain Even Worse
Climate change could change what we eat. It’s already happening in Africa.
If your livelihood depends on crops, which need water, and there isn’t any water ... what do you do?
Simple steps to fight climate change
Maestretti recommends that people build berms and swales so the water that does flow through your land actually stays there and soaks in.
Record Rain Is Drowning Fields in the Midwest — Is It Climate Change?
The Midwest is plagued by floods and soils too wet to plant. Is this climate change? Researchers say it's too soon to tell, but we should still prepare.
Climate change has influenced global drought risk for ‘more than a century’
The influence of human-caused climate change on global drought risk could extend back for more than a century, a study finds.
How Renewable Energy Is Blowing Climate Change Efforts Off Course
Solar and wind produce temporary power gluts that drive out other sources that are needed to maintain stable supplies. Worse, they are helping push nuclear power into bankruptcy.
Why has it been raining so hard? How climate change is causing heavier downpours
It’s not just your imagination … the world is actually getting wetter. That’s because as temperatures rise, the atmosphere can hold — and release — more water. A look …
