BUMMER – Page 48 – Our Fragile Earth

LYME DISEASE AND CLIMATE CHANGE

Climate is a key driver of Lyme disease in the U.S. with larger effects in the Northeast and Midwest. Predictors[…]

Remote tundra lands along the Arctic Ocean are now among the world’s regions with the quickest warming. There’s been a[…]

Abnormally heavy rains last year, made more likely by Indian Ocean long-term warming, have exacerbated a locust infestation across eastern[…]

Almost everywhere that hurricanes form, their maximum sustained winds are getting stronger. Hurricanes are moving more slowly across land due[…]

American oil and gas companies were often in financial trouble before the COVID-19 economic crisis. Now many want our assistance.[…]

On May 4th explosion occurred on an Enbridge pipeline in Kentucky. Although no injuries were reported, it’s one more example[…]

The Environmental Protection Agency has killed Obama’s 2012 rule requiring automakers to improve the fuel economy standards of their cars[…]

Climate change is intensifying worldwide heat waves. Records have already been broken in the U.S. this year. With social distancing[…]

As the government struggles to keep businesses afloat through the pandemic, the Administration is sitting on about $43 billion in[…]

Farmers in parts of the western U.S. who rely on snowmelt for crop irrigation will be among the world’s hardest[…]