by Admin | Dec 14, 2016 | Climate Change, Environmental hazards
Thanks to global climate change, we’re likely to see a huge increase in the number and intensity of extreme rainfall events by the middle of the 21st century. Extreme rainfall events cause flash floods and other problems for local infrastructure, and can be quite...
by Admin | Dec 12, 2016 | Climate Change
The melting of Arctic ice has many effects on the planet, once of which has been less cloud cover in the Arctic. This creates a vicious cycle, because less cloud cover means that more sunlight gets through to the ice, which makes the ice melt faster. In order for...
by Admin | Dec 9, 2016 | Conservation
Could Pokémon Go be a useful tool for conservation? A team of researchers form the University of Oxford think that it might offer some interesting new ways to think about getting people to care about natural history. Study author Leejiah Dorward, a doctoral candidate...
by Admin | Dec 7, 2016 | Climate Change, Environmental hazards, Sustainability
California now has 102 million dead trees, a number that increased 62 million just in 2016 alone, according to the U.S. Forest Service. This is because the state has been in a severe drought for the last five years, with some parts of California not having seen rain...
by Admin | Dec 5, 2016 | Conservation, Environmental hazards
Between 1998 and 2013, the global average surface temperature, one of several measurements used to gauge how much the Earth has warmed, grew more slowly than we expected. That has had scientists asking a lot of questions. The period has become known as the global...
