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We are excited to announce that we are adding Climate Change courses to our site on 12.12.25. Our first course will be completely free: Climate Change Crash course. You have probably heard lots of different things about climate change, so we decided to bring you the facts, in a self-paced, interactive course. We are making these courses with everyone in mind. We know that everybody works differently, so in this course we will have, articles, videos, quizzes and more, so you can choose how you want to learn. Climate Chaos. Clear Signal. CNM 2025 Climate News Media

We are excited to announce a new project: Climate Status. Climate Status continues our mission of making climate news accessible to people around the world by summing up climate change in one place. We are constantly adding new stats, and updating numbers, but if there is a section you really want to see, email us ( climatenewsmonthly@gmail.com ) and we will add it as soon as we can. We really appreciated any feedback on this experiment, so please feel free to reach out. Find project climate status HERE

One of the most powerful tools we have in the fight for a livable planet is the work of making young people stewards of their places. This means giving young people the opportunity to explore natural places in their area to learn the flora, fauna, and funga. Learning about the ecosystems, watersheds and environments of our places and being able to observe changes in these systems over time is the first step in becoming conservationists. I remember when I was a young child being in the woods near our house. We would find sawdust at the base of pine trees from the ips beetles that were wreaking havoc in the forest because of prolonged drought in our area. Not only was I falling in love with the natural world, but I was developing a sense of responsibility for taking care of our land. This is what led me to caring about the much bigger topics of climate change, and inspired me to take action.

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Climate News Monthly has officially rebranded to Climate News Media. We are publishing content daily now (see our YouTube channel: @climatenewsmedia) so we thought it fitting to change our name.

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We are excited to announce the official Climate News Monthly Youtube channel! Here you will find information about us, and narrated versions of new articles, so we can continue making climate info more accessible. Support us by subscribing to our channel and website. Find the new channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@climatenewsmonthly

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In November of 2023, I published an article about decreasing snow pack levels. Here, I have elaborated on that article. If you haven't read my original article on this topic, you can find it here . According to study from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) measuring April snowpacks across various sites in the Western United States, 81% of the sites saw decreased snowpack. This resulted in an average decrease of 18% from 1955 to 2023. Here are a couple more facts from this study: From 1982 to 2023, snowpack length was an average 15 days shorter. Snowpack peaks have also shifted to occur earlier in the year. All in all, April snowpack is a great indicator of how much snow is falling and how much snow is melting during a season. These drastic decreases highlight how rapidly global warming is changing our planet, from the surface conditions to the weather systems.

Recently I wrote an article about the impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence on climate change. I mentioned at the end of that article that AI might also be a valuable asset in combating the climate crisis. If you haven't read my original article, I recommend you do so before reading the rest of this one. You can find that article HERE (07.25) . Now, here is a shot list of 3 ways that AI can help and will help climate change: Mapping AI can help map out areas, and is being used to battle deforestation, and even figure out how fast icebergs are melting. Predicting Disasters AI can help predict when, where, and what type of climate disasters will occur in a certain place, so communities can take action ahead of time to keep people safe. Waste Not only is AI being used to make waste management more efficient, but it is also helping to map out waste in our oceans, so it can be more easily removed. All things considered, although AI is tremendously bad for the environment, and we must fix the way that we power the data centers that hold these powerful computers, it, if used well, can be a major asset in solving the climate crisis. Thanks for reading this article, I hope you enjoyed it. If you did, then please make sure to share it with other people, and like comment and rate this post to support our mission! Forest Olson

This month marks 3 years of articles on our site, and to celebrate, we completely redesigned the blog page, and added many new features. For example, now there are categories and search, making it easier to find the info you need to stay informed on climate change. Thank you for supporting us, and lets make this new chapter of CNM special!

Climate News 10.2022: Effects of Rocket Launches on Climate Change Every time a rocket is launched it releases black carbon or soot, which, when there were only about 70 worldwide rocket launches a year didn’t have a significant impact, but now with an average of about twice that is becoming more of a problem. Each year about 1,000 metric tons of soot is released into the stratosphere from rocket launches. However, this does not include all the fossil fuels used to build and transport these rockets.  Currently rocket launches account for 0.24 percent of the world’s annual greenhouse gas emissions but scientists think this number will start growing rapidly as we enter a new era of increased space exploration. Some estimate that in the next 10-20 years the number of annual rocket launches could be multiplied by a factor of 10. Last year (2021), there were 144 rocket launches worldwide, so if in 15 years 1,440 rocket launches take place that will account for 2.4% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, by today's standards. That's as much emissions as the whole commercial airline industry right now. As we continue into an age of space exploration, this is just motivation for scientists who are working to develop new more efficient fuel for rockets to replace current ones such as RP-1.