Tag: Extreme weather
Renewables Soothe Grid During High Season Heatwaves
My guy and I are traveling in eastern Massachusetts this week. It’s oceanfront tourism at its finest: weathered beachfront homes, open-air dining, riding the long and low cool surf. Unusual for the region, heatwaves do have our personal energy levels drooping. The 90 degree dog days seem daunting when we’re … [continued]
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All water is local
“Nibi Chronicles,” a monthly Great Lakes Now feature, is written by Staci Lola Drouillard. A Grand Portage Ojibwe direct descendant, she lives in Grand Marais on Minnesota’s North Shore of Lake Superior. Her nonfiction books “Walking the Old Road: A People’s History of Chippewa City and the Grand Marais Anishinaabe” and “Seven Aunts” were published 2019 and 2022, and the children’s story “A Family Tree” in 2024.
How Ancient Kings & Their False God Screwed Up CleanTech Adoption & Other Climate Efforts Today
Even before 2025, the United States was a bit of a laggard in clean technology adoption (and that’s putting it optimistically). At all levels, cultural obstacles kept getting in the way, and that has only gotten worse. Even with Democratic Party control of the White House, House of Representatives, and … [continued]
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A Hawaiian Volcano Observatory Made Climate History, But Trump Wants It Gone
The greenhouse effect was discovered more than 150 years ago, and the first scientific paper linking carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere with climate change was published in 1896. By the mid-20th century, scientists definitively connected the effect of human activities to the Earth’s atmosphere, and consensus built that our … [continued]
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Changes In The Earth’s Climate Are Making Food Production More Costly
Rising food prices as the result of extreme weather and a hotter, drier climate are having political consequences around the globe.
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