News in Brief California Braces for Historic Floods California is now experiencing its worst storm yet — with the potential to reshape its history. By Eric Holthaus A… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief If We Don’t Use Our Climate Data, We Risk Losing It Forever A critical mass of everyday users is the best defense against political attacks on climate information. By Denice… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Can Small-Scale Mountain Agriculture Survive Global Warming? Visionary mountain man Sigfried Ellmauer is working to make sure it can, by spearheading Alm restoration projects high… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief To Defend Science, We Need to Depolarize It We need to fight for science without attacking people’s deeply held political and religious loyalties. By Michael White… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Can Mountain Farmers Save Austria? Austria’s mountain farm outposts are cultural and economic strongholds in uncertain economic and environmental times. By Bob Berwyn… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief In Order to Understand the Danger Posed by Sea-Level Rise, We Need to Look to the Past Evidence of rapid sea-level rises around Southeast Asia thousands of years ago suggests that natural fluctuations in sea… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Why Is the GOP Rolling Back Methane Regulations? With House Republicans set to roll back federal rules limiting methane emissions, new research suggests the exact opposite… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Is Climate Change Creating Another Arctic Shipping Route in Russia? Russian researchers find that, by the end of the century, the Northern Sea Route, which hugs the Russian… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Global Warming is Changing Mountain Soils New research says the changes will likely displace some plants altogether and dramatically shift the range of others.… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Protecting Marine Protected Areas Unlike protected lands, marine protected areas can’t be staked with signposts — and, without clear boundaries, mariners can easily drift… Pacific Standard Staff