Harry Stevens
Climate Lab columnist
@washingtonpost
Data, maps and curiosity about climate change
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@washingtonpost
Data, maps and curiosity about climate change
📩 Email me + check my work: [email protected]
Analysis | More than 1.5 billion people have faced dangerous heat this yearwww.washingtonpost.com A Washington Post analysis of a trove of meteorological records shows the extent of life-threatening heat across the globe.
Analysis | Where heat waves might cause blackouts: Look up your areawww.washingtonpost.com New research shows that by 2050, large areas in California, Arizona, Nevada and Texas will experience months of temperatures high enough to compromise the grid.
Analysis | Bishop vanished. His species can still be saved.www.washingtonpost.com This young whale survived a harrowing journey that has killed so many of his species. It wasn’t enough.
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Analysis | Mapping America’s access to nature, neighborhood by neighborhoodwww.washingtonpost.com Spending time in nature is linked to a longer, healthier life. But nature is not distributed fairly across the country.
One cherry tree’s rush to bloomwww.washingtonpost.com Watch a cherry tree bloom over 10 days, and find out how climate change is propelling D.C.’s famous trees to hit peak earlier.
Analysis | Can we save nature with crazy shapes?www.washingtonpost.com The U.N. wants to protect 30 percent of the planet. Many of the areas it counts towards that goal are small and oddly shaped. Can contorted shapes save nature?
Analysis | Can we save nature with crazy shapes?wapo.st The U.N. wants to protect 30 percent of the planet. Many of the areas it counts towards that goal are small and oddly shaped. Can contorted shapes save nature?
Analysis | Can we save nature with crazy shapes?www.washingtonpost.com The U.N. wants to protect 30 percent of the planet. Many of the areas it counts towards that goal are small and oddly shaped. Can contorted shapes save nature?
Analysis | Bird populations are declining. Some are in your neighborhood.www.washingtonpost.com North America has lost 3 billion birds in half a century. The world’s biggest bird database, eBird, shows how bird populations are doing in your town.
Analysis | Watch how carbon dioxide builds up in the atmosphere over one yearwww.washingtonpost.com Two hundred years after the discovery of the greenhouse effect, a new animation of our atmosphere shows how humans add more carbon dioxide than Earth can absorb.
Analysis | Bird populations are declining. Some are in your neighborhood.www.washingtonpost.com North America has lost 3 billion birds in half a century. The world’s biggest bird database, eBird, shows how bird populations are doing in your town.
Where the world warmed the most in Earth’s hottest yearwww.washingtonpost.com A Washington Post analysis of climate data found one-fifth of the planet was 2 degrees Celsius warmer than in the late 1800s, before humans started burning fossil fuels on a large scale.
Analysis | Can you draw last year’s record heat? Try this game.www.washingtonpost.com Most Americans agree that global warming is happening. But how much, exactly? In this game, try to draw how 2023’s heat compared with 40 years of climate data.
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