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 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...
by Admin | Feb 18, 2016 | Articles, Climate Change
Although climate scientists have been warning us for some time now that sea levels are rising and will continue to do so, things may not be quite as dire as we’ve feared. Sea levels are rising slower than expected, and should continue to do that, because the land is...
by Admin | Feb 10, 2016 | Articles, Climate Change, Conservation
Although it leaves the atmosphere much faster than carbon dioxide, methane is actually a huge problem for the environment, and a significant contributor to global climate change. Carbon gets most of the press, partly because it has such a lasting effect, but methane...
by Admin | Jan 27, 2016 | Articles, Climate Change
One of the many side effects of global climate change is something called hypercapnia. It’s a phenomenon in which fish and other marine creatures become “intoxicated” due to an overabundance of carbon dioxide in the water. While the idea of intoxicated fish might seem...
