Tag: impacts
A wind project is stalled in New York. Experts worry about impacts across the U.S.
By Julia Simon , Jeongyoon Han U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum has ordered a halt to an offshore wind project near the coast of Long Island. Today, Equinor, the Norwegian energy company that owns and operates the project, announced it is complying with the order and suspending all construction. President Trump, a longtime…
Study: Nature has saved us from worst climate impacts — for now
Nature itself has already saved humanity from a climate cataclysm, new research finds. Published today, the study found that without Earth’s complex web of terrestrial and marine ecosystems — known as the biosphere — we would already be seeing far more severe climate impacts than we are now. Using a state-of-the-art computer model of Earth,…
Night owl or early bird? Here’s how your inner clock impacts your health
Tonya Mosley Did the holidays mess up your sleep patterns? Maybe you stayed up late ringing in the new year, or changed time zones while traveling. Science journalist Lynne Peeples says the body’s circadian rhythms are sensitive to many different types of changes — but especially to sunlight. In her new book, The Inner Clock:…