As pollution traps heat and lengthens growing seasons for weeds and trees, allergy seasons are getting longer in New Jersey and across much of the nation. And that same carbon pollution is helping plants produce more pollen.
Read MoreFor some of Charlotte’s oldest Black neighborhoods, a lack of electric vehicle charging infrastructure is another symbolic obstacle in an ongoing battle for racial equity.
Read MoreEmerald fields stretch as far as the eye can see. Dragonflies zip around in a frenzied dance. In the distance, birds chirp ceaselessly in a stand of tall, ancestral trees, singing in tune with a chorus of cicadas.
Read MoreGrappling with how far to go to protect a single site is one thing. A pair of lighthouses in South Jersey poses a related question: What makes one site more worthy of money and resources for protection than another?
Read MoreOn a recent morning, a pair of bald eagles perched on the upper branches of an Eastern red cedar near the edge of the Delaware Bay shoreline. Behind them was the 163-year-old East Point Lighthouse, its fresh coat of red and white paint gleaming in the sunshine.
Read MoreIowa leads the U.S. in production of wind energy, generating the most wind energy per square mile. Yet many state legislators oppose the electric vehicle movement — pushing ethanol over electrified transport.
Read MoreAn island city’s billion-dollar route to climate resilience will need residential buy-in to succeed. Local places of worship could be pivotal.
Read MoreYoung activists are redefining the climate agenda by expertly communicating the urgency for global, federal, and local climate-friendly legislation.
Read MoreThis is the third story in Faith for Earth.
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Read MoreThe Lincolnville Museum and Cultural Center recently raised its air conditioning units 18 inches to protect them from floods. Like many in the historically Black Lincolnville neighborhood in St. Augustine, the museum is coping with more frequent and intense flooding as seas rise and hotter temperatures drive heavier storms.
Elsewhere in St. Johns County, Shell Bluff Landing is a 6,000-year-old site in Ponte Vedra Beach with a coquina well and a shell mound associated with indigenous groups like the Timucua, St. Johns and the Guale. Archaeologists are working there to map the shoreline before the ancient site is swept away.
Lincolnville is one of the historic areas in the nation’s oldest continuously occupied European settlement that are threatened by rising seas caused by temperature increases from fossil fuel pollution. Everything, from millennia-old indigenous artifacts to centuries-old Spanish architecture and modern Black history, is at risk.
For youth activists like VanDam, it’s not enough to just spread the word about the problems, but to lead the way for her peers and elders by implementing the solutions at hand. As far as she’s concerned, young voices aren’t just lighting a fuse for change in the climate movement — they’re stoking the blaze.
Read MoreKey West is home to more than 24,000 permanent residents and attracts millions of tourists each year. Cobblestone walkways line tourist-saturated storefronts, adjacent to a sprawling, weathered dock overlooking the ocean. It’s picturesque until it starts to pour.
Read MoreAt the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and during the ensuing economic slowdown, Jacksonville virtually shut down. Businesses shuttered their doors and most who were able to started working from home. That meant far fewer internal combustion engine vehicles were being driven, leading to massive reductions in air pollution and noticeably cleaner air.
Read MoreEnvironmental journalist Ayurella Horn-Muller's debut SAVIOR OF THE SOUTH, an exploration into the South's cultural relationship with kudzu — the landscapes, traditions and communities the vine entangles together — and the ways climate change impacts invasive species in our imperiled world, to Jennifer Keegan at LSU Press, for publication in 2023 (world English).
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