by Mark Gongloff If there’s one climate-change solution everybody seems to agree on, it’s that trees are good. Even Donald Trump, who has called climate change a Chinese hoax, has proposed planting a trillion trees. So it might seem that the holiday tradition of chopping down ...
In 2015, the world’s governments declared a collective ambition: to limit the rise in global temperatures to just 1.5 degrees Celsius. Since then, two things have become clear. First, the costs of exceeding that threshold are greater than believed eight years ago. Second, the goal looks ...
In September, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded $3,070,092 to five West Virginia projects dedicated to emphasizing environmental and public health across the state. Included in that gift was Girl Scouts of Black Diamond Council, which will use the funding for educational ...
MORGANTOWN – Delegate Evan Hansen, D-Monongalia, heads to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates on Monday to participate in the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP28. He'll be participating in two panel discussions, on Wednesday and Friday, he said. He told The Dominion Post he's ...
by LZ Granderson Between 2018 and 2022 many of the states with high rates of poverty — Oklahoma, New York — were also the states that suffered the most damage from extreme weather. A new climate study indicates things are going to get worse for those places and for poor ...
At the time of this writing, there were 21 fires burning over 11,000 acres in West Virginia, according to the Fire, Weather and Avalanche Center. The four largest are the Steep Valley fire in the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve, which has burned over 2,000 acres; the Coal Creek ...