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Warming Trends: Farming for City Dwellers, an Upbeat Climate Podcast and Soil Bacteria That May Outsmart Warming

A column highlighting climate-related studies, innovations, books, cultural events and other developments from the global warming frontier.

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Meeting the Paris Climate Goals is Critical to Preventing Disintegration of Antarctica’s Ice Shelves

By Bob Berwyn

Nature is Critical to Slowing Climate Change, But It Can Only Do So If We Help It First

By Bob Berwyn

Warming Trends: A Global Warming Beer Really Needs a Frosty Mug, Ghost Trees in New York and a Cooking Site Gives Up Beef

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Warming Trends: A Flag for Antarctica, Lonely Hearts ‘Hot for Climate Change Activists,’ and How to Check Your Environmental Handprint

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Warming Trends: Google Earth Shows Climate Change in Action, a History of the World Through Bat Guano and Bike Riding With Monarchs

By Katelyn Weisbrod

California Dairy Farmers are Saving Money—and Cutting Methane Emissions—By Feeding Cows Leftovers

By Stacy Kim

Warming Trends: Mercury in Narwhal Tusks, Major League Baseball Heats Up and Earth Day Goes Online: Avatars Welcome

By Katelyn Weisbrod

In the West, Signs in the Snow Warn That a 20-Year Drought Will Persist and Intensify

By Bob Berwyn, Judy Fahys

Projected Surge of Lightning Spells More Wildfire Trouble for the Arctic

By Bob Berwyn

Warming Trends: Green Grass on the Ski Slopes, Covid-19 Waste Kills Animals and the Virtues and Vulnerabilities of Big Old Trees

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Warming Trends: Asian Carp Hate ‘80s Rock, Beekeeping to Restore a Mountain Top and a Lot of Reasons to Go Vegan

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Should Solar Geoengineering Be a Tool to Slow Global Warming, or is Manipulating the Atmosphere Too Dangerous?

By Bob Berwyn

The Best Protection For Forests? The People Who Live In Them.

By Georgina Gustin

Ice-fighting Bacteria Could Help California Crops Survive Frost

By Liza Gross

Warming Trends: Climate Refugees, Ocean Benefits and Tropical Species Moving North

By Katelyn Weisbrod

With Lengthening Hurricane Season, Meteorologists Will Ditch Greek Names and Start Forecasts Earlier

By Bob Berwyn

In the Pacific, Global Warming Disrupted The Ecological Dance of Urchins, Sea Stars And Kelp. Otters Help Restore Balance.

By Mallory Pickett and Bob Berwyn

Long-lost Core Drilled to Prepare Ice Sheet to Hide Nuclear Missiles Holds Clues About a Different Threat

By Bob Berwyn