climate change

• Opinion

Maryland estimate for seawalls against rising tides: $27 billion

A new study estimates seawall costs to support bringing climate liability lawsuits against fossil fuel industry.

By Dan Rodricks

Jun 28, 2019

• Opinion

Trump's impeachable offense: Ignoring climate change

The impeachment noise in Washington is a distraction from an existential threat to life on Earth

By Dan Rodricks

Jun 21, 2019

• Opinion

A third Chesapeake Bay bridge is no road to the future

Building another bridge will mean more traffic, more development at a time when Maryland and the world needs less of each.

By Dan Rodricks

Feb 19, 2019

• Opinion

Oyster losses are not due to climate change alone

It's a mistake to overlook overfishing and pollution as factors in decline of Chesapeake Bay's oyster population.

• Maryland

At county council president's invitation, Harford group talks about human activity's impact on climate change

Representatives of Harford County Climate Action make it clear for the County Council that human activity is driving climate change, and that Harford County faces significant dangers in the coming decades.

By David Anderson

Apr 18, 2018

• Maryland

Several residents challenge Harford council president's remarks about climate change

Palmer was one of more than a dozen people who spent 45 minutes Tuesday rebuffing claims made last week by Council President Richard Slutzky that global warming is “bogus.”

By Erika Butler

Feb 21, 2018

• Harford

Harford council president says he's a human climate change denier

Harford County Council President Richard Slutzky disputes public consensus that humans are responsible for climate change, citing his research of scientists that have expressed skepticism on the subject.

• Commentary

Zirpoli: The water will come, whether you believe in climate change or not

In his book “The Water Will Come,” Jeff Goodell outlines what is happening to cities along the coasts as the Earth warms, polar caps melt and our oceans rise. His presentation is not just about what will happen in years to come, but what is happening now in cities along the coasts as oceans rise.

• Maryland

Zirpoli: Trump administration's climate change denial continues to detriment of US, economy

Sadly, the United States remains alone in the world, under the leadership of President Trump and a Republican Congress, in not recognizing the dangers of climate change to our nation and to the world.

• Maryland

Zirpoli: In America, free speech should mean free speech

There has been much attention lately about the appropriateness of offensive speech on college campuses and the larger issue of free speech in general. Americans seem to be all about free speech when it comes to their individual beliefs, but not so much when it comes to issues they disagree with.

• News

Trump EPA to repeal power plant emissions plan, posing challenge to Maryland clean air efforts

President Donald Trump's administration said Monday it will repeal rules former President Barack Obama set to reduce greenhouse gas emissions but that were criticized as federal overreach.

By Scott Dance

Oct 9, 2017

• Opinion

'Denigration of science is like a rot'

On Saturday, in more than 500 locations around the world, including

• Health

Research shows significant ways climate already has changed for the Chesapeake

Climate change is not an abstract concept, scientists at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science say — it's already evident and tangible around the Chesapeake.

By Scott Dance

Mar 31, 2017

• Opinion

Climate change: an explanation of the evidence

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt unleashed a furor this month when he said: "I would not agree that [carbon dioxide] is a primary contributor to the global warming that we see. We don't know that yet, we need to continue the debate and the review and analysis." This is essentially the same answer Mr. Pruitt gave in his confirmation hearing, one that was echoed by Rick Perry, Rex Tillerson and Ryan Zinke during their confirmation as secretaries of Energy, State and the Interior. It's clearly an

• Opinion

A snowball's chance in March

Pruitt demonstrates an aversion to rational thought on climate change science

• News

Early spring helps speed tree growth, reduce nitrogen pollution, but larger climate impact unclear

Earlier arrival of spring, associated with climate change, is helping trees grow faster and limiting the amount of nitrogen that forests wash into waterways, researchers at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science have found.

By Scott Dance

Sep 25, 2016

• Opinion

Gov. Scott's unwritten policy on climate change -- don't talk about it

Leonard Pitts Jr. takes on Florida's governor and his 'ignore it' policy toward climate change.

• News

Chesapeake waters are warming, study finds, posing challenges to healing bay

The Chesapeake Bay's waters are warming, in some places rising more rapidly even than the region's air temperatures, a new University of Maryland study finds. If unchecked, scientists say, the trend could complicate costly, long-running efforts to restore the ailing estuary, worsening fish-suffocating dead zones over time and even altering the food web on which the bay's fish and crabs depend.

By Timothy B. Wheeler

Oct 14, 2015

• Health

Climate change – bringing more stomach bugs to a coast near you?

People who live along the coast may have more to fear from climate change than rising waters. A team of Maryland researchers has found evidence suggesting the odds of getting sick from a salmonella infection go up, especially for coastal residents, as shifting climate produces more extreme weather conditions.

By Timothy B. Wheeler

Aug 14, 2015

• Maryland

For Naval Academy, climate change is a challenge both global and local

Vice Adm. Walter E. "Ted" Carter Jr. saw the effects of extreme weather up close in 2012, when he commanded the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise on a voyage across the Atlantic.

By Ian Duncan

Jul 17, 2015

• Climate Change

At Goddard, NASA scientists turn their gaze Earthward

Like many of 9,000 people who work at the Goddard Space Flight Center, George J. Huffman is charged with developing technology to study the Earth from above.

By Yvonne Wenger

Apr 13, 2015

• Maryland

Evidence doesn't support climate change [Letter]

• Opinion

Snow falls, climate changes

Latest snowstorm to hit the East Coast reinforces, rather than disproves, man-made climate change

• Opinion

Marylanders recognize climate change [Commentary]

The next two years will be game-changing for climate change policies in Maryland and around the world. Now is the time for those Marylanders who want action to make their voices heard by calling, visiting or writing their state legislators and Congress members.

• Opinion

Marylanders recognize climate change [Commentary]

• Opinion

GOP pleads ignorance while our planet melts [Commentary]

• Baltimore City Paper

Iceberg twice as big as Manhattan breaks off of glacier

• Environment

Climate report warns of more heat waves, flooding for Md.

• Opinion

The heat is on [Editorial]

• Opinion

Climate change naysayers remain frozen in denial [Commentary]

• Maryland

Michael Zimmer: Evidence contradicts climate change

• Opinion

Climate change consensus

• Maryland

Editorial: Cleaner is better for business

• Environment

Maryland urged to plan for 2-foot sea-level rise by 2050

• Maryland

Scientists, forecasters caution climate change could prompt more wild weather

• Baltimore City Paper

A disappearing island shows what rising sea levels mean for the Chesapeake Bay

• Environment

Researchers map Maryland's forest carbon

• Maryland

Some wish Islam would inform climate debate

• Maryland

Climate change

• Weather

Severe weather renews climate-change talks in Washington, Annapolis

• Climate Change

Getting used to weather's new normal

• Environmental Science

EPA's climatic victory

• Environment

Study finds sea level rise accelerating along Atlantic coast

• Climate Change

The globe warms, America shrugs

• Maryland

Planet Carroll brings discussion on sustainability, climate change to local level

• Environment

Fruit growers fret over early spring

• Opinion

Warming: Storm damage ahead

• Environment

Baltimore gets a shade warmer, according to new averages

• Climate Change

Heat wave bringing more smog to MD - get used to it?

• Environmental Science

Obama drops climate change talk as green movement fizzles