Tag: Climate Change
A bit of optimism in recent climate reports
It’s easy to feel pessimistic when scientists around the world are warning that climate change has advanced so far, it’s now inevitable that societies...
R.I. Infrastructure Bank awards $4.9M for municipal climate resiliency projects
PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank recently awarded $4.9 million in grants to 12 cities and towns to pay for projects that improve...
Here’s another way wind farms could be benefit to environment
Off the southern New England coast, developers are preparing to build the first federally approved utility-scale offshore wind farms – 74 turbines in all...
McKee to commit over $150M to climate change initiatives in proposed...
PROVIDENCE – Gov. Daniel J. McKee announced Wednesday that he will be committing more than $150 million that is earmarked for a series of...
Race to cut carbon emissions splits U.S. states on nuclear
PROVIDENCE (AP) – As climate change pushes states in the U.S. to dramatically cut their use of fossil fuels, many are coming to the...
Climate change making it harder to chase fall foliage
Droughts that cause leaves to turn brown and wither before they can reach peak color. Heat waves prompting leaves to fall before autumn even...
Why climate change is making it harder to chase fall foliage
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Droughts that cause leaves to turn brown and wither before they can reach peak color. Heat waves prompting leaves to...
Addressing climate change through endowment investments
Harvard University will keep phasing out all investments tied to oil, gas and coal, it announced on Sept. 9. Harvard President Larry Bacow cast...
URI-led researchers get $1.5M grant to study ties between sea-level rise,...
SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Researchers at the University of Rhode Island and Pennsylvania State University have received a four-year, $1.5 million grant from the National...
Climate change is an infrastructure problem
Most of America’s 107,000 gas stations can fill several cars every five or 10 minutes at multiple pumps. Not so for electric-vehicle chargers –...
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