After a cold spring and unseasonably hot and dry summer, Patrick Smith of Yakima is seeing some abnormalities in when his crops mature.
The two challenges are interrelated, and a new report from the McKinsey Global Institute says they must be addressed in tandem.
With the aid of workers, technology and cash from the oil and gas industry, new companies offer a glimpse of a post-fossil fuels future.
Microsoft is paying $200 million to a company using crushed rock to absorb carbon, and the Frontier consortium is backing emerging technology.
Citrus, a relatively new crop for the state, is taking root thanks to the combined forces of climate change, crop science and disease in Florida.
The state is home to many of the fastest-growing cities in the U.S. Add record temperatures, and it’s no surprise that the grid is stressed.
Along with the obvious human case for looking out for employees, climate change poses a serious threat to productivity and retention.
Even fewer are preparing for it.
Direct potable reuse technology, which lets cities pump treated wastewater back into pipes, is picking up steam from Colorado to California.
Low-income workers who aren’t able to choose their work schedules are especially hard hit. And that has a cost of its own.
