Serendip is an independent site partnering with faculty at multiple colleges and universities around the world. Happy exploring!
You are here
NYT Global Warming Climate Change
The Challenge of Hiking Up Mount Whitney in California
Last July, a recently divorced writer who had found solace in hiking took on a towering challenge: Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the lower 48 states.
Categories: Climate
El petróleo de Guyana: ¿bendición o maldición?
Más que ningún otro país, Guyana encarna la paradoja entre las secuelas del cambio climático y el atractivo económico de la industria petrolera.
Categories: Climate
¿Por qué hay tantos envases de plástico?
Reducir el uso de plástico es una forma obvia de luchar contra el cambio climático. Sin embargo, hasta ahora ha sido la herramienta más eficaz para luchar contra otra amenaza medioambiental: el desperdicio de alimentos.
Categories: Climate
Can the Left Be Happy?
Comforted by neither God nor history, and hoping vaguely that therapy can take their place.
Categories: Climate
¿Por qué hay tantos envases de plástico?
Reducir el uso de plástico es una forma obvia de luchar contra el cambio climático. Sin embargo, hasta ahora ha sido la herramienta más eficaz para luchar contra otra amenaza medioambiental: el desperdicio de alimentos.
Categories: Climate
Her Art Is at Odds With Museums, and Museums Can’t Get Enough
Gala Porras-Kim has confronted the restitution of cultural artifacts and now — with melting Antarctic ice — climate change.
Categories: Climate
Richard Benedick, Negotiator of Landmark Ozone Treaty, Dies at 88
He played a key role in securing the Montreal Protocol, an international environmental pact to protect the ozone layer by reducing the use of certain chemicals.
Categories: Climate
An Engineering Experiment to Cool the Earth
A new technology is attempting to brighten clouds and bounce some of the sun’s rays back into space.
Categories: Climate
A Breakthrough in Plastic Recycling Is Coming Up Short
Big brands like Procter & Gamble and Nestlé say a new generation of plants will help them meet environmental goals, but the technology is struggling to deliver.
Categories: Climate
‘Reglobalization’ to the Rescue?
The term, which emerged in response to calls for "deglobalization," has been popping up more in trade and policy circles.
Categories: Climate
Geoingeniería solar: desviar el sol contra el calentamiento global
Un ensayo en California está probando una máquina diseñada para reflejar la luz solar en el espacio con la finalidad de disminuir temporalmente las temperaturas del planeta.
Categories: Climate
Is Traveling by Train Always Cleaner than Flying? It’s Complicated.
The surprising carbon footprint of an Amtrak trip across America.
Categories: Climate
¿Ventisca? ¿Tormenta de nieve? ¿’Nor’easter’? ¿Cuál es la diferencia?
Cómo mantenerse a salvo cuando cae la nieve.
Categories: Climate
Plan to Stash Pollution Beneath the Sea Could Save Money and Jobs
The Italian energy giant Eni sees future profits from collecting carbon dioxide and pumping it into natural gas fields that have been exhausted.
Categories: Climate
Ocean Temperatures Suggest a Daunting 2024 Hurricane Season
An early forecast from one set of experts sees an above-average hurricane season that may rival the busiest years on record.
Categories: Climate
Environmental Protection Agency Gives $20 Billion in ‘Green Bank’ Grants
The E.P.A. said the fund will spur a clean energy transition in overlooked communities. Republicans called it a “greendoggle.”
Categories: Climate
Another A.I. Target: Food Waste
Artificial intelligence is peering into restaurant garbage pails and crunching grocery-store data to try to figure out how to send less uneaten food into dumpsters.
Categories: Climate
As Wildfires Grow Fiercer, Some Companies Look to Rebuild the Tree Supply Chain
As forests succumb to ever-fiercer wildfires, the federal government and some adventurous private companies are trying to resuscitate an industry.
Categories: Climate
Global Forest Loss Remains High, Despite Recent Progress
Wildfires and agricultural expansion offset big gains in protecting tropical forests last year.
Categories: Climate
I’m a Doctor. Dengue Fever Took Even Me by Surprise on Vacation.
Without urgent reforms to how we educate travelers, doctors, nurses and others, we are doomed to miss textbook dengue cases.
Categories: Climate