Story Archives of 'global warming'

Project to Help New Hampshire Coastal Communities Adapt to Climate Change

By Amy Quinton on Thursday, September 25, 2008.

A new project is underway to help estuaries and surrounding coastal communities adapt to climate change.

The low-lying areas are most at risk for damage caused by more severe storms, flooding and sea level rise.

The Environmental Protection Agency selected six estuaries to participate and serve as case studies for the rest of the nation.

New Hampshire’s Great Bay is one of them.

NHPR’s Amy Quinton reports.

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How do I reduce my personal carbon footprint?

By EarthTalk on Saturday, September 13, 2008.

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From the Editors of E/The Environmental Magazine

Dear EarthTalk: How can I measure — and then improve — my overall “carbon footprint?” What are the major areas of one’s daily life that one measures? -- Andy Fusco, Passaic, NJ

With global warming dominating so many headlines today, it’s no surprise that many of us are looking to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases our activities produce.

New Hampshire Scientists Study Global Warming

By Laura Knoy on Thursday, August 28, 2008.

Researchers from Dartmouth College have been traveling between the North and South Poles to study the effects of global warming. They dig down deep into the polar snow to collect samples they hope will answer questions about the polar ice caps, the atmosphere and more. We’ll talk to these scientists and others in the Granite State who are helping us understand global warming.

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Bill McKibben: 350: The Most Important Number on Earth

By Monadnock Summe... on Sunday, July 20, 2008.

Bill McKibben is the author of a dozen books on environment, including The End of Nature, the first book about climate change. A former staff writer for the New Yorker, he helped organize 2,000 demonstrations across the United States last year to call for action on global warming. Now he is organizing the first global grassroots effort on the problem, at 350.org. His most recent books are Deep Economy and The Bill McKibben Reader

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Bill McKibben on the Number 350

By Richard Ager on Wednesday, July 16, 2008.

350 stands for the number of parts per million of carbon dioxide we can have in our atmosphere without causing irreversible damage - and our atmosphere is already at 385. But Vermont-based environmentalist and author Bill McKibben says not all is doomed if a large grassroots effort starts now to reduce carbon emissions.

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Are You Fed Up With "Green Noise"?

By Andrew Walsh on Tuesday, July 15, 2008.

Here on Word of Mouth, we often cover topics related to environmental concerns and global warming (in fact, our Next Green Thing series specifically focuses on these issues). As people seek to learn more about the health of our planet, media outlets like ours are dedicating time and energy to covering the stories related to it.

Next Green Thing: Heavy-Duty Bike Delivery

By Shannon Mullen on Tuesday, June 24, 2008.

The Environmental Protection Agency has already issued four alerts for poor air quality in New Hampshire this spring and summer. We can expect more as the season drags on.

When ground level ozone mixes with heat and sunlight, the air becomes unhealthy to breathe. These conditions can get amplified in cities like Boston, where heavy traffic creates even more smog.

One Cambridge-based company is doing its part to cut down on the auto emissions that make the air so dirty. The New Amsterdam Project is a delivery company that ships hundreds of pounds of products around greater Boston using modified bicycles with cargo loads on the back. Reporter Shannon Mullen produced a story about the souped-up bicycles for our Next Green Thing series.

(Photo by Shannon Mullen)

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The Policy and Politics of Global Warming

By Laura Knoy on Wednesday, June 11, 2008.

2008 has seen complex debates over formulas to reduce greenhouse gases. Nationally, the so-called “Climate Security Act”, thought to be a watershed moment for global warming, failed in Congress, but in the Northeast, a greenhouse gas agreement known as RGGI is on the way. We’ll look at the winners and losers in the climate change debate this year, and why one initiative passed and one didn’t.

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  • Elizabeth Williamson, reporter for the Wall Street Journal, who covers lobbying and regulation in Washington, D.C.
  • Jeff Young, Washington correspondent for the NPR's Living On Earth
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Next Green Thing: Cities and Climate Change

By Virginia Prescott on Tuesday, June 10, 2008.

For our regular series "The Next Green Thing," we're taking a look at what cities are doing to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

While cities accommodate half of the world's population, they consume 75 percent of its resources. But policy makers from New York, Toronto, London, and the not-so-urban Cape Cod gathered for a conference Monday at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge to share ideas on how cities can reduce their energy use and improve transportation.

Andrew Blum, a contributing editor for WIRED and Metropolis magazines, moderated one of the panel discussions. We called him Tuesday morning to find out what projects cities are taking on to reduce their carbon footprint.

(Photo by Jacob Bøtter)

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Climate Change Possibly Linked to Spike in Lyme Disease

By Dianne Finch on Tuesday, June 3, 2008.

Last year we had 892 cases of Lyme Disease in the state – nearly doubling the numbers from 2006.

Some people think that global warming trends are linked to that spike.

NHPR’s Dianne Finch has more.

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