How NASA Scientists Are Turning L.A. Into One Big Climate-Change Lab

Southern California’s Mount Wilson is a lonesome, hostile peak — prone to sudden rock falls, sometimes ringed by wildfire — that nevertheless has attracted some of the greatest…
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2629 words)

PUBLISHED: Feb. 3, 2013

The Scary Truth About How Much Climate Change is Costing You

While policymakers fiddle, the threat of economic harm posed by rising sea levels, devastating storms, and drought is growing every day. by Coral Davenport People ski on a snow-covered road during…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 7, 2013
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5019 words)

North Dakota Went Boom

Kevin Tschetter, 34, hauls water to and from active wells for KNS Enterprises. Originally from South Dakota, he was meeting with other KNS employees at the Scenic 23 Club in New Town. Long before the…
AUTHOR:Chip Brown
PUBLISHED: Jan. 31, 2013
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1029 words)

Weather Gone Wild

Photograph by Sean R. Heavey, Barcroft Media/Landov The weekend forecast for Nashville, Tennessee, called for two to four inches of rain. But by the afternoon of Saturday, May 1, 2010, parts of the…
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3667 words)

Dry times pose tough questions

Near Garden City, the Arkansas River has run dry on its surface. That’s not a new problem for the Arkansas in southwest Kansas, but it stands in sharp contrast this dry summer to the verdant…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 13, 2012
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2883 words)
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With Warming, Peril Underlies Road to Alaska

NOT SO PERMANENT A pool of permafrost meltwater has formed along the Alaska Highway near Beaver Creek, Yukon. WHITEHORSE, Yukon Territory — In February 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave the
PUBLISHED: July 23, 2012
LENGTH: 2 minutes (659 words)

ClimateWatch Magazine » Innovative Farmers Look to Climate Forecasts for an Edge

Alabama grower Myron Johnson talking with Wendy-Lin Bartels, an anthropologist with the Southeast Climate Consortium. NOAA photo by Brian Kahn. The North Florida Research and Education Center is a…
AUTHOR:Brian Kahn
LENGTH: 1 minutes (429 words)
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"Hockey Stick" Scientist Crosschecks Critics

Image: Photograph by Chris Crisman In Brief Who: Michael E. Mann Vocation|Avocation: Climate modeler and scourge/target of climate change contrarians Where: Pennsylvania State University Research…
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