Warming Trends: Winterless Olympics, a Disaster Novel Shows the Importance of Storytelling in Climate Conversations and a New Lab Studies Parks and Warming

Of the 21 cities, including Beijing, which will host the games next month, only 1972 host Sapporo, Japan could reliably host the games by the 2080s, the researchers found. With climate change there’s some good reasons for it. A new collaboration between three organizations seeks to understand not only how climate change is affecting parks, beginning with Central Park, but also how parks can be natural infrastructure to help mitigate and adapt to climate change in the years to come. The goal is to create a common way of mapping park land in the context of climate change to apply to other parks around the country. The atlas will help scientists monitor how much carbon the oceans can hold—an important metric for understanding climate change.