Posts Tagged ‘climate change’
Venice has unusually high levels of water but the locals are getting on just fine
By Harley Tamplin | Metro.co.uk | June 17, 2016 If there’s one place in the world that should cope fine with some flash flooding, it’s Venice. That’s the case in the beautiful Italian city at the moment – and judging by the pictures, the locals don’t seem to mind. There are unusually high levels of water as…
Read MoreSeven climate records set so far in 2016
By Adam Vaughan | The Guardian | June 17, 2016 From soaring temperatures in Alaska and India to Arctic sea ice melting and CO2 concentrations rising, this year is smashing records around the world Continue reading on The Guardian.
Read MoreBiggest US coal company funded dozens of groups questioning climate change
By Suzanne Goldenberg and Helena Bengtssen | The Guardian | June 13, 2016 Peabody Energy, America’s biggest coalmining company, has funded at least two dozen groups that cast doubt on manmade climate change and oppose environment regulations, analysis by the Guardian reveals. The funding spanned trade associations, corporate lobby groups, and industry front groups as well as…
Read MoreCoral Bleaching in The Great Barrier Reef
This month the #Anthropocene film team visited Australia to observe coral bleaching in the Great Barrier Reef. pic.twitter.com/gBtpGEkYKW — Anthropocene Project (@anthropocene) May 26, 2016
Read MoreCoal made its best case against climate change, and lost
By Dana Nuccitelli | The Guardian | May 11, 2016 Peabody Energy, the world’s largest private sector coal company (now bankrupt), recently faced off against environmental groups in a Minnesota court case. The case was to determine whether the State of Minnesota should continue using its exceptionally low established estimates of the ‘social cost of carbon’, or…
Read MoreFirst report of all the world’s plants finds 1 in 5 species facing extinction
By Ben Guarino | The Washington Post | May 10, 2016 Plants pervade almost every part of human life — not only do we eat them and wear them, we use plants for fuel, medicine, building materials, poisons and intoxicants. To limit the world’s plants to those that meet a human need, however, would be doing the leafy kingdom a…
Read MoreHow Rising CO2 Levels May Contribute to Die-Off of Bees
By Lisa Palmer | Yale Environment 360 | May 10, 2016 Specimens of goldenrod sewn into archival paper folders are stacked floor to ceiling inside metal cabinets at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. The collection, housed in the herbarium, dates back to 1842 and is among five million historical records of plants from around…
Read MoreFort McMurray and the Fires of Climate Change
By Elizabeth Kolbert | The New Yorker | May 5, 2016 The town of Fort McMurray, some four hundred miles north of Calgary, in Canada, grew up very quickly on both sides of the Athabasca River. During the nineteen-seventies, the population of the town tripled, and since then it has nearly tripled again. All this growth…
Read MoreJust 7% of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef Escapes Bleaching
BBC News | April 20, 2016 An extensive aerial and underwater survey has revealed that 93% of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has been affected by coral bleaching. This follows earlier warnings that the reef was experiencing its worst coral bleaching event on record. Prof Terry Hughes from the National Coral Bleaching Taskforce told the BBC the link between…
Read MoreEvolving Toward a Better Anthropocene
By Erle Ellis | The Breakthrough Institute | April 4, 2016 Humans have now transformed Earth to such a degree that a new epoch of geologic time, the Anthropocene, may soon mark the emergence of humanity as a “great force of nature.” The big question is why? Why did humans, and no other single multicellular species…
Read MoreIs It Game Over for Coal?
By Emma Foehringer Merchant | New Republic | March 18, 2016 Last Friday, Oregon became the first state to ban coal outright, passing a bill that will phase out any electricity generated by coal by 2035. Several days earlier, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported that 80 percent of last year’s retired electricity was coal-powered. In 2016, natural gas…
Read MoreThe Case for Optimism on Climate Change | Al Gore TED 2016
Why is Al Gore optimistic about climate change? In this spirited talk, Gore asks three powerful questions about the man-made forces threatening to destroy our planet — and the solutions we’re designing to combat them. (Featuring Q&A with TED Curator Chris Anderson)
Read MoreNew Evidence Shows Global Climate Change Began Way Back in 1610
By Eric Holthaus | Slate | February 17, 2016 With evidence mounting that humanity has become a true force of nature “as Earth-changing as a meteorite strike,” it’s natural to wonder just exactly when our collective influence over our home planet’s environment became so dominant. That question has sparked a roaring debate among scientists that’s led to an effort to…
Read MoreHow Humans are Driving the Sixth Mass Extinction
By Jeremy Hance | The Guardian | October 20, 2015 Periodically, in the vast spans of time that have preceded us, our planet’s living beings have been purged by planetary catastrophes so extreme they make your typical Ice Age look like the geological equivalent of a stroll in the park. Scientists count just five mass…
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