Neela Banerjee
InsideClimate News
Washington, DC, United States
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Decades of Science Denial Related to Climate Change Has Led to Denial of the Coronavirus Pandemic
After the fossil fuel industry spent hundreds of millions of dollars undermining climate science, it’s easy to see how epidemiology came next. → Read More
Q&A: A Harvard Expert on Environment and Health Discusses Possible Ties Between COVID and Climate
Air pollution makes people more vulnerable to respiratory infections; climate change brings people in closer contact with animals that can spread disease. → Read More
Breathing Polluted Air Shortens People’s Lives by an Average of 3 Years, a New Study Finds
Pollution, primarily from fossil fuels, was linked to more premature deaths than smoking, HIV/AIDS, malaria and even war, the researchers found. → Read More
Climate Change Will Increase Risk of Violent Conflict, Researchers Warn
Stanford convened top experts in climate and conflict with a wide range of views to see where they agree about climate change’s impact on global security. → Read More
Court Sides With Trump on Keystone XL Permit, but Don’t Expect Fast Progress
The ruling involved a lawsuit over the pipeline’s permit. The Trump administration got around it by scrapping the first permit and issuing a new one. → Read More
Midwest Flooding Exposes Another Oil Pipeline Risk — on Keystone XL’s Route
Rushing rivers have exposed once-buried pipelines before, leading to oil spills. With climate change exacerbating flood risks, Keystone XL critics see dangers ahead. → Read More
With Democrats in Charge, House Science Committee Talks About Climate Science
The hearing revealed a subtle shift on the Republican side, with younger members acknowledging that scientific research points to human-driven global warming. → Read More
U.S. Intelligence Officials Warn Climate Change Is a Worldwide Threat
Their annual assessment says climate hazards such as extreme weather, droughts, floods, wildfires and sea level rise threaten infrastructure, health and security. → Read More
U.S. Intelligence Officials Warn Climate Change Is a Worldwide Threat
Their annual assessment says climate hazards such as extreme weather, droughts, floods, wildfires and sea level rise threaten infrastructure, health and security. → Read More
Dangers Without Borders: Military Readiness in a Warming World
A new series explores how the looming risks from global warming have become a soft underbelly of U.S. military readiness, threatening national security. → Read More
How the Farm Bureau’s Climate Agenda Is Failing Its Farmers
That agenda has left farmers ill-prepared to cope with effects of climate change—droughts, heat and storms—while neglecting a key climate solution. → Read More
Spring Is Coming Earlier to Wildlife Refuges, and Bird Migrations Need to Catch Up
If the birds don’t adapt to climate change, they could go hungry right at the start of breeding season. A new study shows the changes are already underway. → Read More
NOAA’s Acting Chief Floated New Mission, Ignoring Climate Change
He walked it back after a sharp reaction from scientists, but it's a stark example of Trump efforts to undermine federal work on global warming risks, advocates say. → Read More
Keeping Global Warming to 1.5 Degrees Could Spare Millions Pain of Dengue Fever
The tropical disease is spread by mosquitoes that thrive in the wetter, hotter conditions that accompany climate change. → Read More
Urgent Climate Action Required to Protect Tens of Thousands of Species Worldwide, New Research Shows
Limiting global warming to 2 degrees and not the more ambitious 1.5 degrees would put far more species at risk of extinction. Insects are especially vulnerable. → Read More
Industry Sway Over EPA Is Stronger Now Than Under Reagan, Study Says
When EPA decisions are based on industry priorities rather than public interest, that's regulatory capture. Social scientists say Trump's EPA is on the edge. → Read More
Investigators: We Can’t Tell if Interior Dept. Reassignments Were Legal Due to Lack of Records
In a scathing report, the Inspector General describes questionable practices and why some staff believe the moves were related to their work on climate change. → Read More
Judge: Trump Admin. Must Consider Climate Change in Major Drilling and Mining Lease Plan
The plan covers 15 million acres in the Powder River Basin of Montana and Wyoming. The ruling on it is the latest to cite risks of fossil fuels and global warming. → Read More
Rising Seas Damaging More U.S. Military Bases, Retired Admirals Warn
Sea level rise linked to climate change is putting key locations at risk of costly damage that could knock out critical operations for weeks. → Read More
Far More Methane Leaking at Oil, Gas Sites in Pennsylvania than Reported
An EDF comparison of company-reported data and research measurements finds as much as 5 times more methane, a climate-warming greenhouse gas, is leaking. → Read More