by Admin | Mar 31, 2016 | Articles, Information
Managing natural resources can be difficult, but it’s essential to making sure that ecosystems aren’t too disrupted. This is doubly so when there are indigenous people living in the region in question, such as the Makushi or Wai Wai people of southern Guyana in South...
by Admin | Mar 24, 2016 | Articles, Climate Change
Predicting climate change, and the effects thereof, has never been easy. Generally, when scientists need to figure out how something like that will play out, they look to the past to see how things have gone before. That’s precisely what a team from the University of...
by Admin | Mar 18, 2016 | Climate Change, Environmental hazards, Sustainability
Understanding China’s energy policy is made easier through programs sponsored by the National Committee on U.S. China Relations. Deborah Brautigam, Director of the China Africa Research Initiative; Bill E Ford, Chief Executive Officer at General Atlantic; and Henry...
by Admin | Mar 10, 2016 | Articles, Climate Change
According to Harvard University researchers, grasslands in North America will be facing higher summer temperatures and widespread drought by the end of the century. In some places that’s already happening, as we saw last summer in California, Oregon, and Washington,...
by Admin | Mar 3, 2016 | Articles, Climate Change
Preterm birth is a problem that, in the United States, affects more than 10% of newborns. According to a new study from the National Institutes of Health, women with asthma may be at a greater than normal risk of preterm birth if they are exposed to higher than...
