New York City Green Spaces Fight Climate Change in Cities. This Brooklyn Neighborhood Has Been Left Behind The Southside of Williamsburg in New York City’s Brooklyn borough lacks green space, putting its residents at increased risk of the negative impacts of climate change, from flooding to air pollution. NBCLX contributor Meghan McDonough spoke with activists in the community fighting for environmental justice. (Mackenzie Behm helped film. Animation by Erin Panell.)
climate change Scientists Warn We Need to Act Now to Prevent Worse Climate Disasters Citing more than 34,000 pieces of peer-reviewed research, 270 scientists from around the world published the UN IPCC report on climate change, warning global leaders to act now to secure a safe climate future. Besides reducing carbon emissions, the report calls for more investment to protect from worsening natural disasters, NBCLX storyteller Chase Cain explains.
climate change To Secure a Livable Future for All, We Need Climate Justice Now, UN Report Finds “Any further delay will miss the rapidly closing window to secure a livable and sustainable future for all,” one expert urged.
climate change Climate Change Feels Like a Ticking Time Bomb. Gratitude for Nature Can Help Us Fight When we take time to get out in nature, we learn to appreciate the world around us, and that gratitude can be a powerful weapon.
LX To Fight Climate Change, First Remember To Be Grateful for the Earth's Beauty Climate change has already started eroding many of the Earth’s wonders that humans have taken for granted for centuries, from the Amazon rainforest to North Carolina’s Outer Banks. In the next part of his Climate Change Survival Guide, NBCLX storyteller Chase Cain shares how taking time to enjoy nature and be grateful for our planet can motivate us to take...
climate change 8 Good Things for the Environment That Happened in 2021 From Sec. Deb Haaland's historic appointment to the movement to divest from fossil fuel companies, 2021 wasn't all bad news about climate change.
climate change 8 Positive Steps We Took To Fight Climate Change in 2021 The news about climate change wasn’t ALL bad in 2021. NBCLX storyteller Chase Cain shares eight good things that happened for the environment this year, including new standards for fuel economy, a pledge to end deforestation and a movement encouraging major investors to divest from fossil fuel companies.
Extreme Weather Is ‘Tornado Alley' Shifting East? Climate change may not be increasing the number of tornadoes, but some parts of the country are seeing tornado-friendly conditions more often than in the past. NBCLX Storyteller Chase Cain explains the science behind the climate shift after a destructive storm spawned several tornadoes that destroyed parts of Kentucky, Arkansas and Missouri.
climate change Severe Tornadoes in December Are Rare. Did Climate Change Cause Friday's Disaster? Meteorologists weigh in on whether climate change is behind this weather anomaly.
Mayfield Tornado Kentucky Tornadoes Remind Veteran Meteorologist of Hurricane Katrina Damage Allison Rogers has seen tornado damage before in her career, but the damage in Mayfield, Kentucky brings back memories of one of the worst storms the U.S. has seen – Hurricane Katrina, which destroyed her Mississippi hometown in 2005. Rogers, a meteorologist at WLWT in Cincinnati, Ohio, shows us the scene in Kentucky and explains how the National Weather Service...
