The world is facing multiple health challenges. These range from outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases like measles and diphtheria, increasing reports of drug-resistant pathogens, growing rates of obesity and physical inactivity to the health impacts of environmental pollution and climate change and multiple humanitarian crises. Keep Reading
Failure to address the ecological crises will inevitably create a world dominated by unprecedented mass migrations, violent local conflicts over dwindling resources, and ultimately war. Keep Reading
The period from September through November was the second warmest on record for the globe, with a temperature of 1.44 degrees F above average. Keep Reading
The 1,700-page report was compiled by scientists from 13 federal agencies, and concludes that emissions from human activity will continue to affect the climate for decades and perhaps centuries to come. Keep Reading
The city's massive amounts of paving had an even bigger impact by reducing drainage. Land development in the metro area, on average, increased the chances of extreme flooding by 21 times, study authors said. Keep Reading
Using a high-resolution global climate model called HiFLOR developed at NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), scientists were able to accurately predict the active hurricane season in June 2017. Keep Reading
The average area burned across the state would rise by 77 percent by the end of the century if emission trends are not reversed, study says. Keep Reading
So far, the season has seen four named storms, including two hurricanes. An average six-month hurricane season produces 12 named storms, of which six become hurricanes, including three major hurricanes. Keep Reading
The fact that climate change is not specifically called out as a cause for some of the epic natural disasters we have experienced over the past several years is not as important to this Strategic Plan as what this document tells us it is going to do to respond to those conditions. Keep Reading
The purchase would depend on new equipment investments by U.S. shipyards, which haven't built heavy icebreakers for decades. Keep Reading
