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Preserving green space as the city continues to grow

As a relatively small-but-growing city, Morgantown now faces the same problems previously faced by bigger cities — which were once small-but-growing cities, too. Growth requires development: commercial spaces, residential buildings, parking, related infrastructure, etc. Development, ...

If you didn’t get an alert about extreme weather, you’re alone

by Mark Gongloff With the planet heating up and nature growing more deadly and destructive, new tools to help people gauge their climate risks are landing faster than DVD-sized hail in Texas. But these models still need fine-tuning. For now, a simpler approach might be to just throw a ...

Extreme heat worsens mental health

by Lisa Jarvis On July 22, planet Earth achieved a terrifying milestone: Global temperatures reached their highest level in recorded history, breaking a record set just one day before. This year is expected to be the hottest in centuries. Heat waves are hotter, longer and more frequent ...

We don’t need to live in a world of climate doom

by Flora Cardoni During extreme climate events — like the record heat waves we’re experiencing this summer — people who know me as a climate activist often ask: How do you stay hopeful? How do you keep fighting when the effects of climate change keep getting worse? The ...

Good riddance to El Niño, but La Niña won’t be much relief

by Mark Gongloff The record-smashing global heat of the past year has been driven partly by an El Niño weather pattern in the Pacific Ocean. The good news is that El Niño is rapidly giving way to his cooler sister, La Niña. The bad news is that she won’t necessarily be any kinder ...