climate change

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

By Dan Rodricks

Jun 28, 2019

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

By Dan Rodricks

Jun 21, 2019

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Pruitt demonstrates an aversion to rational thought on climate change science

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.