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Warming Trends: Chilling in a Heat Wave, Healthy Food Should Eat Healthy Too, Breeding Delays for Wild Dogs, and Three Days of Climate Change in Song

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

By Katelyn Weisbrod

High-angle view of Prospect Park from the Mount Prospect reservoir, looking southwest over Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, New York in 1895. Credit: Geo. P. Hall & Son/The New York Historical Society/Getty Images

Rediscovered Reports From 19th-Century Environmental Volunteers Advance the Research of Today’s Citizen Scientists in New York

By Rachel Rodriguez

Snow piles on the trees at Olympic National Park. Credit: D Logan/Classicstock/Getty Images

Warming Trends: Putting Citizen Scientists to Work, Assuring Climate-Depressed Kids That the Future is Bright, and Deploying Solar-Hydrogen Generators

By Katelyn Weisbrod

A person holds a melanoid axolotl before releasing it into the wild as part of a campaign to preserve the endangered species and its habitat. On Feb. 16, 2022 In Mexico City, Mexico. Credit: Luis Barron/Eyepix Group/Future Publishing via Getty Images

Protecting Mexico’s Iconic Salamander Means Saving one of the Country’s Most Important Wetlands

By Myriam Vidal

A hair stylist tends to a customer at a salon on May 17, 2013 in Berlin, Germany. Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Warming Trends: How Hairdressers Are Mobilizing to Counter Climate Change, Plus Polar Bears in Greenland and the ‘Sounds of the Ocean’

By Katelyn Weisbrod

JC Hudgins pulls in his test crab pots in the Chesapeake Bay in Mathews, Virginia, on Friday, June 10, 2022. Credit: Kristen Zeis/Deep Indigo Collective for Inside Climate News

Why the Chesapeake Bay’s Beloved Blue Crabs Are at an All-Time Low

By Aman Azhar

Bottlenose dolphins. Credit: Owen Humphreys/PA Images via Getty Images.

From Spring to Fall, New York Harbor Is a Feeding Ground for Bottlenose Dolphins, a New Study Reveals

By Daelin Brown

Maasai elders in Tanzania.

In an Attempt to Wrestle Away Land for Game Hunters, Tanzanian Government Fires on Maasai Farmers, Killing Two

By Katie Surma

Health workers screen passengers arriving from abroad for monkeypox symptoms at Anna International Airport terminal in Chennai on June 03, 2022. Credit: Arun Sankar/AFP via Getty Images

As Animals Migrate Because of Climate Change, Thousands of New Viruses Will Hop From Wildlife to Humans—and Mitigation Won’t Stop Them

By Victoria St. Martin

Clusters of monarchs. monarch butterflies in tree at the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve near Angangueo, Michoacan, Mexico. Credit: Marica van der Meer/Arterra/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Warming Trends: Butterflies Bounce Back, Growing Up Gay Amid High Plains Oil, Art Focuses on Plastic Production

By Katelyn Weisbrod

A manatee swims in the Homosassa River on Oct. 5, 2021 in Homosassa, Florida. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Habitat Protections for Florida’s Threatened Manatees Get an Overdue Update

By Amy Green, WMFE

California Water Regulators Still Haven’t Considered the Growing Body of Research on the Risks of Oil Field Wastewater

By Liza Gross

Sleeping Beauty Castle in the rain at Disneyland in Anaheim, California, on Thursday, March 12, 2020. Credit: Jeff Gritchen/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images

Warming Trends: Weather Guarantees for Your Vacation, Plus the Benefits of Microbial Proteins and an Urban Bias Against the Environment

By Katelyn Weisbrod

The Rachel Carson Homestead in Springdale, Pennsylvania on May 9, 2022. Credit: Katie Surma

In ‘Silent Spring,’ Rachel Carson Described a Fictional, Bucolic Hamlet, Much Like Her Hometown. Now, There’s a Plastics Plant Under Construction 30 Miles Away

By Kiley Bense

Aerial view of a cocoa field and remains of deforested trees in Colombia on November 4, 2021. Credit: Raul Arboleda/AFP via Getty Images

New Reports Show Forests Need Far More Funding to Help the Climate, and Even Then, They Can’t Do It All

By Georgina Gustin

The woodland at dawn in Parambikulam Wildlife Sanctuary on Nov. 19, 2009 in Kerala, India. Credit: Phil Clarke Hill/In Pictures via Getty Images

Indian Court Rules That Nature Has Legal Status on Par With Humans—and That Humans Are Required to Protect It

By Katie Surma

A Climate-Driven Decline of Tiny Dryland Lichens Could Have Big Global Impacts

By Bob Berwyn

A flock of birds flies over the border between Eagle Pass, Texas, and Piedras Negras, Coahuila state, Mexico, on Feb. 16, 2019. Credit: Julio Cesar Aguilar/AFP via Getty Images

Warming Trends: Tracking Bird Migration in the Night Sky, Plus the Olympic Mountains’ Rapidly Shrinking Glaciers and a Podcast Focused on Florida’s Polluted Environment

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Tons of dead fish float on the waters of the Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon, beside the Corcovado mountain in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on March 13, 2013. Credit: Christophe Simon/AFP via Getty Images

The Current Rate of Ocean Warming Could Bring the Greatest Extinction of Sealife in 250 Million Years

By Bob Berwyn

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