climate change

How researchers, farmers and brewers want to safeguard beer against climate change

Posted by WRAL TechWire | Nov 13, 2023

MOUNT ANGEL, Ore. (AP) — On a bright day this fall, tractors crisscrossed Gayle Goschie’s farm about an hour outside Portland, Oregon. Goschie is in the beer business — a fourth-generation hops farmer. Fall is the off-season, when the trellises are bare, but recently, her farming team has been adding winter barley, a relatively newer crop in the world of beer, to their rotation, preparing barley seeds by the bucketful.

NC is ready to grab ‘unfair share’ of clean energy economy, says top economic development leader

Posted by Sarah Glova | Nov 10, 2023

North Carolina is ready to grab more than its fair share of the clean economy, says Christopher Chung, CEO of the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina (EDPNC). Check out his remarks on the state of North Carolina’s clean energy economy—where it is and where it’s going next.

Doomsday Bingo in review: Close to a ‘winning’ card in 2023 – on to 2024

Posted by WRAL TechWire | Nov 10, 2023

Editor’s note: Marshall Brain – futurist, inventor, NCSU professor, writer and creator of “How Stuff Works” – is a contributor to WRAL TechWire. He’s also author of “The Doomsday Book: The Science Behind Humanity’s Greatest Threats.” Brain has written several posts recently about the threat of climate change. His exclusive columns written for TechWire...

Lose the permafrost, lose the planet: A very chilling Doomsday scenario

Posted by WRAL TechWire | Oct 27, 2023

There is one end-of-the-world Doomsday threat you may not have heard of. It is far more subtle. It is also slower acting, meaning it would unfold over the course of years. But it has the potential to be just as catastrophic. This threat is called Melting Permafrost. Let’s take a look.

Climate change fighter: Startup lands $3.5M, to expand 3-prong coastal strategy

Posted by Jen McFarland | Oct 16, 2023

This funding will enable expansion and commercialization at a bigger level as the company moves into projects in Louisiana and Hawaii.

We face a hair-on-fire, runaway emergency: Tracking Doomsday meltdown

Posted by WRAL TechWire | Oct 13, 2023

We will get to witness the collapse of civilization. The focus of this article is, “How runaway climate change will cause the collapse of civilization.” In a runaway situation, things will change quite quickly – fast enough to predict when the end will come.

Doomsday author’s analysis: How climate change will cause the collapse of civilization

Posted by Sarah Glova | Oct 6, 2023

Climate change has not really taken a deep bite out of humanity yet, says Dr. Marshall Brain. Here’s why he believes nothing “truly catastrophic” has happened to humanity because of the effects of climate change—yet—and a deep dive at the catastrophes that could be on the horizon.

Amphibians are in more danger than any other group of animals, uniquely ‘sensitive’ to climate change, says Duke professor

Posted by WRAL TechWire | Oct 6, 2023

The world’s amphibians are in serious trouble. A new global assessment found that 41% of amphibians are threatened with extinction, with no other group of animals is in greater danger. Learn why this group is at risk — and how scientists are trying to help.

Just how bad is climate change? It’s worse than you think, says Doomsday author

Posted by WRAL TechWire | Sep 29, 2023

Things are way, way worse than you think when it comes to climate change. The reason people can believe that everything is going to be OK is because they have not taken the time to comprehend all the different things that are going wrong simultaneously, nor how seriously these things are going wrong. Here’s a deep dive in the challenges we face.

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