Jeva Lange

New York

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Articles

NOAA Layoffs Have Hurricane Forecasters Worried

1 week ago | heatmap.news | Jeva Lange

Buoys have it tough. Built to endure some of the harshest conditions on the planet, the instruments are thrashed by ocean waves, buffeted by high winds, corroded by sea salt, and scorched by the sun’s ultraviolet rays.
IEA slashes oil outlook, citing tariffs

1 week ago | heatmap.news | Jeva Lange

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China’s Minerals Pause All Pain, No Gain for U.S.

1 week ago | heatmap.news | Jeva Lange

Current conditions: More than 28 million people in the Ohio Valley are at risk of severe thunderstorms today • Intense heat in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City may be behind dozens of cases of food poisoning linked to street vendors • Parts of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula could see up to 10 inches of snow by late Tuesday. THE TOP FIVE1.
Trump’s Tariffs Will Flatten the U.S. Bicycle Industry

2 weeks ago | heatmap.news | Jeva Lange

When I wrote Heatmap’s guide to driving less last year, I didn’t anticipate that a good motivation for doing so would be that every car in America was about to get a lot more expensive. Then again, no one saw the breadth and depth of the Trump administration’s tariffs coming.
The Climate Election You Missed Last Night

3 weeks ago | heatmap.news | Jeva Lange

It’s probably fair to say that not that many people paid close attention to last night’s city council election in Naperville, Illinois. A far western suburb of Chicago, the city is known for its good schools, small-town charm, and lovely brick-paved path along the DuPage River. Its residents tend to vote for Democrats. It’s not what you would consider a national bellwether.
Trump’s Funding Cuts Are Killing Small Farmers’ Trust in Climate Policy

3 weeks ago | heatmap.news | Jeva Lange

Spring — as even children know — is the season for planting. But across the country, tens of thousands of farmers who bought seeds with the help of Department of Agriculture grants are hesitating over whether or not to put them in the ground. Their contractually owed payments, processed through programs created under the Biden administration, have been put on pause by the Trump administration, leaving the farmers anxious about how to proceed.
How Elon Musk’s Layoffs Are Threatening America’s Shrimp

1 month ago | heatmap.news | Jeva Lange

In the labyrinthine organizational chart of the U.S. government, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration sits conspicuously within the portfolio of the Department of Commerce.
The U.S. Tsunami Alert System Is Straining Under Trump

1 month ago | heatmap.news | Jeva Lange

There is never a good time for an earthquake. But as President Donald Trump and his government efficiency guru, Elon Musk, take a buzzsaw to the federal bureaucracy, they risk discovering whether there is such a thing as an especially bad time. The 700-mile Cascadia Subduction Zone runs off the Pacific coast from southern British Columbia to northern California, and has been stuck for approximately the past three centuries.
Climate Donors Are Quietly Filling the Funding Void - For Now

1 month ago | heatmap.news | Jeva Lange

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What the NOAA Layoffs Are Doing to Climate Science

1 month ago | heatmap.news | Jeva Lange

No one seems to know exactly how many employees have been laid off from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration — or, for that matter, what offices those employees worked at, what jobs they held, or what regions of the country will be impacted by their absence.