air travel Making Air Travel Carbon Neutral Means Rethinking the Way We Fly Airlines emit the same amount of carbon as the German and Dutch economies combined. But it will take more than just making the world’s airline fleets more fuel efficient to reverse the industry’s impact on climate change. NBCLX storyteller Clark Fouraker takes a look at how industry innovators are hoping to make air travel greener and more efficient — and...
gen z Young Teens Think About Climate Change Differently From Older Teens, Young Adults Girls are more likely to be dissatisfied with environmental efforts than boys, and older teens are more likely to care about corporations' role in climate change than younger teens, new data finds.
power grid Is the Texas Power Grid Ready for Another Winter? Many Texans are still reeling from the effects of the coldest winter on record in 30 years, but winter is coming. And energy experts say the state’s power grid is still vulnerable for another failure, despite new regulations. Those experts say the work done on the Texas grid this year was the “bare minimum,” said Mitchell Ferman, energy and economy...
climate change survival guide How To Challenge Consumerism and Help the Environment This Holiday Shopping Season Americans are addicted to buying stuff — but consumerism doesn’t make us happy, and it also contributes to climate change, NBCLX Storyteller Chase Cain explains in the next part of his Climate Change Survival Guide. So this holiday shopping season, which is already more challenging due to supply chain problems, try out alternative gift ideas, like experiences or second-hand items.
climate change Will More Cities Hire a Chief Heat Officer? In preparation for a hotter future, Los Angeles became the 3rd local government in the U.S. to hire a “chief heat officer.” The CHO will examine how the city buildings and pavement create “heat islands” that lead to cities being much warmer than the suburbs. Ladd Keith, a city planning expert and professor at the University of Arizona, explains how...
sea level rise This Island Nation Is Preparing For a Future Underwater Tuvalu, an island of about 12,000 people in the South Pacific, is preparing for a future without land as rising sea levels threaten the nation. Spots that were dry land a decade ago are now submerged – including a spot where Simon Kofe, Minister for Justice, held a press conference to show how high the water goes.
cuffing season How Is Climate Change Affecting Cuffing Season? If climate change is making winters shorter and less intense, is it also affecting cuffing season, aka the search for a partner in the late fall to spend the cold months hunkered down with? NBCLX senior editor Maura Hohman discusses what she learned while reporting on how climate change is affecting cuffing season.
climate change Yikes, Climate Change Is Even Making Cuffing Season More Stressful Cuffing season, aka the search for a mate to keep you company when the world hunkers down for the winter, is a late-fall tradition in some cities.
COP26 Will COP26 Agreements Even Mention Fossil Fuels? The COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland is coming to a close and countries are working on their climate commitments now. But the words “fossil fuels” have never been used in one of these agreements, says Chloe Demrovsky, president of Disaster Recovery Institute International. Demrovsky says countries will “peer pressure” each other into making climate commitments – but even in...
climate change survival guide A Woman Warned Us About Climate Change 165 Years Ago. Naturally, We Ignored Her Eunice Newton Foote's 1856 research foreshadowed how both climate change and women would be treated by society for decades. The first kind of, sort of, maybe global action on climate change, the Kyoto protocol, didn't come until 140 years later.
