Jan 9, 2025 · Climate scientist Daniel Swain said on CNN that the Pacific Palisades fire alone may end up as the most expensive wildfire in history, and that he expected that collectively, the fires ravaging the region will be the costliest wildfire event in history. According to NOAA, the most expensive wildfire season on record (in 2024 USD, to account for inflation) was the $30 billion 2018 season ...

Sep 19, 2024 · In 2023, the fast fashion giant Shein was everywhere. Crisscrossing the globe, airplanes ferried small packages of its ultra-cheap clothing from thousands of suppliers to tens of millions of customer mailboxes in 150 countries. Influencers’ “#sheinhaul” videos advertised the company’s trendy styles on social media, garnering billions of views.

Welcome to “Eye on the Storm” … Weather Underground Co-Founder Dr. Jeff Masters and his long-time meteorologist and writer colleague, Bob Henson, now are both regular contributors to Yale Climate Connections, offering the kinds of timely and authoritative weather and climate analyses that have gained them many thousands of followers worldwide.

Oct 30, 2024 · Earth’s climate in 2024 is “in a major crisis with worse to come if we continue with business as usual,” a team of 14 climate scientists warned in “The 2024 state of the climate report: Perilous times on planet Earth.”The report did not sugarcoat their view of the dangers humanity is facing.

Jan 9, 2025 · Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Detail from Bachman's Warbler from “Birds of America” (1827). The last confirmed sighting of the Bachman’s warbler took place in the 1980s. (Image ...

Nov 20, 2024 · This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and WBEZ, a public radio station serving the Chicago metropolitan region.. A row of executives from grain-processing behemoth Archer Daniels Midland watched as Verlyn Rosenberger, 88, took the podium at a Decatur City Council meeting last week.

Nov 6, 2024 · At 10 a.m. EST Wednesday, November 6, Rafael was located 130 miles (205 km) southeast of Havana, Cuba, headed northwest at 14 mph (22 km/h) with top sustained winds of 110 mph (175 km/h) and a central pressure of 960 mb.

Oct 25, 2024 · Farming has always been at the mercy of the weather, but climate change is amplifying that dependence dramatically. UK farmers are encountering unprecedented disruptions, from record rainfall and erratic seasons to more frequent droughts.

Nov 12, 2024 · Figure 1. Odds of at least a tropical depression (winds of 25+ mph or 40 km/h) moving within 150-200 miles (160-322 km) of a given location for for the two-day period ending at 7 p.m. EST Friday, Nov. 15, according to the 0Z Tuesday, Nov. …

Nov 20, 2024 · Research published in the journal Environmental Research: Climate, “Human-caused ocean warming has intensified recent hurricanes,” found that between 2019 and 2023, the maximum sustained winds of Atlantic hurricanes were 19 mph (31 km/h) higher because of human-caused ocean warming. And a parallel report by Climate Central, a nonprofit scientific research organization, applied the ...