For the first time in almost two decades extreme heat wave triggers, the state ordered rolling power outages to conserve energy. The California Independent System Operator (ISO) declared a Stage…
Extreme droughts are likely to become much more frequent across central Europe, and if global greenhouse gas emissions rise strongly they could happen seven times more often, new research has…
Air pollution and extreme weather will intensify in the 21st century. Jason West, Ph.D., from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, delivered the second NIEHS Global Environmental Health…
Gases that deplete the ozone layer could be responsible for up to half of the effects of climate change observed in the Arctic from 1955 to 2005. The finding could…