by Admin | Jul 27, 2020 | Climate Change, Conservation
With just a few exceptions, observed climate data only goes back to around the 1880s. That’s roughly when scientists more or less agreed on how to measure the large elements of climate (temperature, weather conditions, humidity, wind strength, and so forth) and how to...
by Admin | Jul 20, 2020 | Conservation, Information
In recent years, the federal government has seemed quite hostile toward national parks and the agency that runs them, the National Park Service. In 2018, the White House eliminated protections for over 2 million acres of monument land in Utah, making them available...
by Admin | Jul 13, 2020 | Environmental hazards, Information
It sounds a little like the prologue to a disaster movie: a biotech company is planning to release 750 million mutant mosquitoes into the Florida Keys and it just got the green light from the government. But this isn’t Bites, the next summer B-movie. It’s a public...
by Admin | Jul 3, 2020 | Business, Green Energy
In Britain, the dark cloud of the COVID-19 crisis has had one notable silver lining; under the reduced energy load of a population in lockdown, the country has gone without using coal-generated energy for more than two months. With energy-hungry industrial and...
