This Man Wants to Make You a Tower Climbing Grease Monkey (VIDEO)
Neal Gyngard scales 300-foot-tall wind turbines for a living. He loves his job, and he wants you to come along for the ride.
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Thawing Permafrost Is Giving Scientists The Chance To Study Long-Dead Diseases (Prepare For The Next…
For decades, the Inuit woman, a victim of the 1918 Spanish flu, lay buried in a mass grave under six feet of Alaskan permafrost. But when the frozen ground began to thaw in the 1990s, the Inuit town of Brevig Mission gave scientists permission to dig her up. Her ample body fat kept her lungs insulated against warmer temperatures, helping to preserve the fragments of the virus that lay within.
Want To Stop Climate Change? Educate Girls.
“Today’s girls are tomorrow’s leading scientists, campaigners and politicians.”
Fossil Fuel Drilling Is Making Texans Sick (Video)
In Texas, methane leaking from fracking sites is not only heating the planet. It’s also making people ill. Locals have reported headaches, nosebleeds, and respiratory problems, and they are calling on fossil fuel companies to clean up their act.
How Extreme Heat Threatens Farms & Farm Workers (Videos)
Farm workers, who must labor under the hot sun all day, are uniquely threatened by rising temperatures, so activists are working hard to protect them against worsening heat. Find out more in the videos below.
Fighting Floods & Fossil Fuels In Texas (Video)
“Can you imagine a world without environmental activists pushing for change?”
As California Forests Heat Up, Birds Are Flocking To Higher Ground
Forests are critical to slowing climate change because they soak up huge amounts of heat-trapping carbon dioxide. Birds help keep forests healthy by eating insects that spread tree-killing diseases. Birds also scatter seeds that give rise to new trees. If birds leave, the forests could be in trouble.
Where Rising Seas Raise Rents — Climate Gentrification Is Here (VIDEO)
Coastal flooding is driving up the cost of housing in high-elevation Miami neighborhoods like Little Haiti.
The Politics Of A Green New Deal (VIDEO)
In the summer of 2018, Nexus Media took part in Freedom to Breathe, a cross-country tour that explored how climate change intersects with the racial, social, and economic challenges that Americans face every day. We saw firsthand how fossil fuel pollution and extreme weather are damaging communities across the United States, and how ordinary people are organizing to combat the problem.
In Mississippi, The Costs Of Coastal Flooding Are Adding Up (VIDEO)
“A lot of people are just selling out and getting out.”
Ankle-deep in the overflow of the river that drew her here two decades ago, Calinda Crowe looked across her land, envisioning the future. She didn’t like what she saw.
