Mt. Rainier Ptarmigans Are ‘Cute, Funny Little Birds.’ And They May Get More Federal Protection | Northwest Public Broadcasting
How wildfires affect climate change — and vice versa | Morning Ag Clips
EPA Says Climate Crisis Is Man-Made in Report Trump Suppressed
Biden Wants A Civilian Climate Corps. Here's How It Might Work : NPR
It's a tough time to be a young person. COVID-19 has robbed many of them of experiences and plans. Their unemployment rate remains high. College enrollment is down.
To address those concerns and bolster preparedness for a warming world, President Biden wants to retool and relaunch one of the country's most celebrated government programs: the Civilian Conservation Corps.
Joanne Chory is harnessing plants to stop climate change - Washington Post
Human-caused climate change was putting humanity’s future in peril, she said in recorded remarks. Survival would depend on Earth’s original carbon-capture machines, the most effective tools for getting rid of greenhouse gases. People needed to find new ways to grow plants — and soon.
Launching Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate | USDA
Once officially launched, AIM for Climate will catalyze greater investment in agricultural R&D and innovation to help to raise global ambition and underpin more rapid and transformative climate action in all countries, including by enabling science-based and data-driven decision and policy-making.
NASA just released the first direct evidence that humans are causing climate change
It was clear humans were warming the planet for some time -- now we have official confirmation.
"The most significant piece of climate legislation the state has ever considered" - Washington State Wire
SB 5126 passed out of the Senate Ways and Means Committee last night, bringing one of the legislature’s most ambitious pieces of climate legislation ever considered one step closer to enactment.
The bill creates a system referred to as “cap and invest” where funds generated from auctioning the rights or licenses to create carbon emissions will be invested into capital infrastructure. In the case of the current bill, this would equal between $272m and $551m per year dedicated to transportation infrastructure starting in FY 2023.
Spring Forecast: An Already Bad Drought Worsens Across The West | Northwest Public Broadcasting
With nearly two-thirds of the United States abnormally dry or worse, the government’s spring forecast offers little hope for relief, especially in the West where a devastating megadrought has taken root and worsened.
Cliff Mass Weather Blog: The Northwest Snowpack Trend of the Past Fifty Years: The Truth May Surprise You
The media is full of stories suggesting that global warming has greatly reduced the mountain snowpack in the Pacific Northwest...Yes, there are some random, low snow-depth years (like 2015), but no trend is apparent during the period when global warming has been greatest.
Drought Is the U.S. West’s Next Big Climate Disaster - Bloomberg
Water scarcity is baking cropland and ramping up wildfire risk from California to Texas
Native American producers critical to future of U.S. food system and fighting climate change – U.S. Farmers and Ranchers In Action
With over 59 million acres of Native-operated farms across over 30 states within the United States, Tribal Nations and Native producers are perhaps the single most underappreciated resource for sustainable, rural economic development in the U.S.
Forecast for spring: Nasty drought worsens for much of US
With nearly two-thirds of the United States abnormally dry or worse, the government’s spring forecast offers little hope for relief, especially in the West where a devastating megadrought has taken root and worsened.
EPA relaunches climate change website previously modified by Trump administration - CNN
Citizens of Washington Take Up Climate Change Solutions - Sightline Institute
Could randomly selected Washingtonians from all walks of life come up with something better? That’s what the Washington Climate Assembly is hoping to find out.
Drought in California: why 77 percent of the Western US is abnormally dry - Vox
Rising temperatures and lack of rain threaten to decrease water supplies and bring more wildfires this summer and in the years to come.
Cascade Snowpack More Vulnerable To Climate Change Than Inland Neighbors, Study Suggests | Northwest Public Broadcasting
New research suggests mountain snowpack in the Cascades is among the most vulnerable in the U.S. to the effects of climate change.
Northern Hemisphere Summers Are Trending Towards a Hugely Disruptive Length
The climate crisis is affecting our planet to such an extent, summers in the Northern Hemisphere could last half the year by 2100, scientists have warned.
People of color across Cascadia speak up against climate change | Crosscut
From country towns to South Seattle, activists say the government must listen to long-marginalized communities that feel climate change’s biggest impacts.
Climate mitigation ‘designed by farmers for farmers’ | Successful Farming
Producers could see three new revenue streams from climate mitigation, he said. They were income from carbon markets, from conversion of agricultural waste into products ranging from chemicals to fabrics, and capture of methane from manure for use as a renewable fuel.
Digital maps show how climate change’s impact in WA isn’t equal | Crosscut
From floods to wildfires, mapping programs in Cascadia are showing scientists which communities face higher risk.
‘We don’t have a day to waste’ on climate mitigation, says Vilsack | Successful Farming
U.S. agriculture faces a triple imperative — market, environment, and income — in responding to climate change, said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Thursday, his first day on the job. “We don’t have a day to waste on this,” he told reporters while indicating that the USDA will move at deliberate speed to identify and support successful mitigation practices.
‘You cannot do climate on the backs of the American farmer’ | Successful Farming
“A lot of these practices, while they may be good, aren’t always free or they require some investment or they require some new knowledge,” said Bonnie.
House Ag panel will start with climate change | Successful Farming
With the resolution of a disputed election in New York State, the House Agriculture Committee is ready for action with climate change as its top issue. “Everything will tie into climate change,” says the committee chief of staff, and the first hearing of the year will focus on climate change’s impact on agriculture.
Biologists uncover forests' unexpected role in climate change
New research from West Virginia University biologists shows that trees around the world are consuming more carbon dioxide than previously reported, making forests even more important in regulating the Earth's atmosphere and forever shift how we think about climate change.
Biden's new conservation corps stirs hopes of nature-focused hiring spree | Conservation | The Guardian
As part his recent climate policy spree, Biden announced the establishment of a “Civilian Climate Corps Initiative” that could harness the energy of the very generation that must face – and solve – the climate crisis by putting them to work in well-paying conservation jobs.
U.S. Farmers and Ranchers in Action promotes agriculture's potential as a climate solution | Successful Farming
U.S. Farmers & Ranchers in Action (USFRA) —in conjunction with World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), The Mixing Bowl, and Croatan Institute has issued a new report that analyzes the state of soil health technology. The report also identifies opportunities to find new sources of capital to scale up the adoption of climate-smart agriculture on U.S. farms and ranches.
What affect could ice-forming particles have on our weather? | World Economic Forum
Biden's USDA nominee Tom Vilsack clears first hurdle, says he will focus on climate change - The Washington Post
Treasury names "forcefully addressing the threat of climate change" a top priority - CBS News