'He was tiny but mighty.’ Amber Vigh remembers her son, Carter, who died last year at the age of 9.

🗞️ Climate change played a role in killing tens of thousands of people in 2023
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It’s time to step off the gas, literally and figuratively.

🗞️ ‘Step on the gas,’ ‘well-oiled machine,’ and other fossil-fuel phrases that pervade our language
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Back to school! Retired teachers are heading back to classrooms to help teach and organize projects about climate change.

🗞️ Retired teachers return to Colorado classrooms to teach students about climate change
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March 2024 was the planet’s 10th consecutive warmest month on record

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My latest post summarizes March 2024, the planet’s 10th consecutive warmest month on record. Remarkable that 5 nations/territories set an all-time heat record for any month, and an additional 24 set an all-time March heat record.
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Dreaming of a climate-friendly, fully electric home? Getting one of these is an important first step:

🗞️ Want a climate-friendly home? You might need a new breaker box.
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As waters warm in the Gulf of Maine, invasive green crab populations are exploding.

🗞️ A nemesis of clams is thriving as Maine’s waters warm
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Mexico has not had the best track record when it comes to implementing climate-friendly policies, but that might change this year.

🗞️ What is Mexico doing about climate change?
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Tornadoes can rip a home apart, but there are ways to make that unhappy prospect a bit less likely. Climate Connections
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Simple improvements can make a huge difference.

🗞️ How to make your home more tornado-resilient
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Some people may never know they’ve been infected by the Valley-Fever-causing fungus. For others, the illness can be “relentless.”

🗞️ As temperatures warm, valley fever fungus vastly expands its range
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Video: How big is your carbon footprint?

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In the U.S., Hispanic people are disproportionately exposed to harmful air pollution. This project aims to help people push for change:

🗞️ Group to monitor air pollution in 12 U.S. cities with large Hispanic populations
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The forecast is the most aggressive one ever issued in the 30 years that the Colorado State University team has been issuing April forecasts.

🗞️ Forecasters predict an extremely active 2024 Atlantic hurricane season
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The CSU Atlantic hurricane season forecast is super-aggressive: 23 named storms, 11 hurricanes, 5 majors. If this verifies, the number of named storms would rank 3rd-highest on record; hurricanes, 5th-highest; major hurricanes, 9th; ACE index, 9th.

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“People are just faced over and over with damaging floods and then having to put their lives back together each time.” — Anna Weber, Natural Resources Defense Council.

🗞️ After a hurricane or wildfire, communities can be overwhelmed by debris
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The U.S. saw its two worst tornado outbreaks in April 1974 (50 years ago today) and April 2011. How might things look different with the next one? Some thoughts from Dr. Marshall Shepherd and Victo☈ Gensini, PhD, CCM, and a few reflections from Jeff Masters and me, here:

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Big U.S. tornado outbreaks have been changing in recent decades – trending away from the Great Plains and toward the highly vulnerable Mississippi Valley and Southeast and making up a larger share of all tornado activity.

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🗞️ Hop on a bike with your editors
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