by Beth Holmes | Feb 28, 2022 | Climate Change, Environmental hazards
Petropolis, Brazil was devastated this week by landslides, with over a hundred dead. Petropolis is a mountain city in the Serra do Mar range in Brazil, with a population of over 300,000 people 40 miles upriver from Rio de Janeiro. And while landslides are an...
by Beth Holmes | Feb 21, 2022 | Climate Change, Conservation, Environmental hazards, Sustainability
The megadrought in the American West is the worst in at least 1200 years, according to a recent study by UCLA researchers, and human-led climate change is a key part of it. Park Williams, a climate hydrologist at UCLA, has been studying the history of soil hydration...
by Beth Holmes | Feb 14, 2022 | Conservation, Environmental hazards, Sustainability
San Javier de Cachaví, a small village in Ecuador, is being choked by oil palm trees, and now the courts want them to pay the plantation owners thousands for protesting the damage. San Javier de Cachaví is small, only about 120 families in a little community along a...
by Beth Holmes | Feb 7, 2022 | Climate Change, Sustainability
Winter sports are facing a widespread difficulty this year – there’s not enough winter weather. The Alpine World Cup began in Beaver Creek, Colorado last December, a ski resort at almost a mile and a half elevation in the Rocky Mountains. Ordinarily in December,...
