Climate Change

Boise is helping to offset the effects of climate change with a seemingly simple solution, more trees.

Rising seas are forcing Indigenous communities to move. Higher temperatures are causing drought and loss of traditional foods. Michael Charles, a Navajo professor at Cornell University, is trying to quantify the impact of climate change on Indigenous life in North America. Our Living Lands producer Daniel Spaulding spoke to Charles about his work.

Climate change has many effects on our world, from extreme heat to drought to floods, which in turn affect people and their health.

Archeologists at the Udax̂tan site in Unalaska are trying to protect artifacts from being destroyed by storms and rising seas. Other sites face similar dangers as climate change makes weather more intense.

Though hospitals work to solve people's health problems, the waste they produce can lead to making patients sicker, which is something many health care institutions would like to change.

Each year our society produces an overwhelming amount of plastic waste, contributing to a pollution crisis that not only impacts our environment but our health.

More precipitation is falling as rain, instead of snow — which impacts ski resorts, tourism and ecosystems.

Boise has some big climate goals for the future, including becoming carbon neutral by 2050, and in order to help reach that goal, they have created a new Community Climate Action Committee.

A new study shows that wildlife migration routes in the West will likely shift because of climate change. That’s why researchers worked with a tribe in the Mountain West to find out how to tackle the problem.

Wildfires are often talked about in terms of the acres they burn, or the number of structures they destroy. New research is bringing attention to their speed – and evidence that they’re accelerating.