Climate change adds to baseball's offensive boom as warmer air means about 50 more home runs per season, new study finds

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Aaron Judge swinging a baseball bat with a catcher and umpire behind him.
Aaron Judge hitting his AL-record breaking 62nd home run in 2022. Researchers say at least 500 home runs since 2010 can likely be attributed to climate change and warmer temperatures.

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10 surprising things you can recycle, from flip-flops to human hair

Tech Insider : Environment
  • Innovators around the world are finding creative ways to recycle things we throw away.
  • Human hair can soak up oil spills, while used coffee grounds can be made into sunglasses frames.
  • We found out how companies are repurposing old chopsticks, flip

8 sustainability experts on the front lines share concrete reasons to be hopeful about the climate crisis

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America is addicted to parking lots — and it's killing the economy

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics, Climate Crisis
A blue car drives across the outside of the earth. Following the car, the surface of the earth incrementally is covered by a full parking lot.
The US is home to as many as 2 billion parking spots. All this wasted space is wrecking our economy and making it harder to building homes.

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Police arrested senior citizens who blockaded banks in a 'Rocking Chair Rebellion' to end fossil fuel use

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A climate protest aimed at older Americans gathered in front of Wells Fargo headquarters in San Francisco, California.

Morgan McFall-Johnsen

Phoenix residents are transforming their homes to save energy and conserve water as climate scientists warn of an ever-worsening crisis

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America is being hit by a huge surge in blackouts — and it's only going to get worse

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics, Climate Crisis
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Major blackouts are happening more often thanks to extreme weather from climate change and a fragmented electric grid.

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Candida auris is just one infection fueled by rising temperatures. See how extreme climate helps spread disease, in 3 simple charts.

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A strain of Candida auris cultured in a petri dish at a CDC laboratory.

Shawn Lockhart/CDC via AP

The Earth has tilted on its axis differently over the last few decades due to melting ice caps

Tech Insider : Environment
The Earth is shown in a picture taken from space, from above its pole.
NASA's asteroid-bound NEAR spacecraft took this mosaic image of Earth in January 1998.

NEAR Spacecraft Team/JHUAPL/NASA

The Biden administration is offering to pay Colorado River farmers to let fields go dry during a devastating drought. They're worried it's just the first step in losing their way of life.

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics
Colorado River family farmer in front of combine
Troy Waters, 56, with his grandson Waylon fixing up their combine before the next harvest.

Leah Waters

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