Tag: Global Warming
The de Blasio administration has identified neighborhoods most vulnerable to extreme heat, which is becoming a bigger problem in New York City every year as the climate changes. A study by the commission behind de Blasio’s OneNYC sustainability plan has recognized Upper Manhattan, especially central Harlem, a large swath of the South Bronx, and Brooklyn […]
Councilman Donovan Richards is set to propose a limit on the number of lights commercial buildings in NYC are allowed to keep on at night. Richards sees the legislation as an effort to curb carbon emissions. With a citywide goal of reducing the energy footprint by 80% in 2050 already in place, Richards is presenting […]
It’s called he Bio-Bus and it’s first test in England of a mass transit solution that runs entirely on sewage and food waste. Tour operator Bath Bus Company is using the Bio-Bus to shuttle passengers between Bristol Airport and Bath City Center. Using Bristol’s sewage treatment works to generate bio-methane gas, the company said that the 40 […]
World leaders gathered at the United Nations General Assembly yesterday for a climate change summit, but it may be city leaders who actually get something done. As large nations like the U.S. and China continue to refuse drastic action on climate change, a special envoy of mayors hopes to make a global impact by attacking the problem […]
German scientists say that the melting glaciers of Antarctica may threaten coastal cities like New York with higher sea rise than previously thought. A new study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research forecasts that Antarctica’s ice melt could raise sea levels between one and 37 centimeters (15 inches), if carbon emissions remain the same. “This is […]
This summer has been pretty nice so far, by NYC standards, with sporadic and bearable heat waves and most of the extreme weather consisting of freak thunderstorms. Lucky 2014. Prepare yourselves for Nelly to make a big comeback, ’cause it’s getting hot in here in the future. Climate Central has created an interactive map that shows […]
According to a report published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, an unexpected effect of climate change might have Puerto Rico’s coqui frogs croaking at a different pitch than they did decades ago. In 1983 and 1984, Peter Narins and a group of other researchers discovered that the higher the frogs lived in […]
Everyone knows that David Attenborough, renowned naturalist and narrator of the Planet Earth documentary series, is the second-wisest person in the world (behind only this guy, of course). So when he speaks up, the human race had better listen. And in a recent interview with the Radio Times, he did just that. We are a plague on the Earth. […]
