by Admin | Dec 10, 2015 | Articles, Climate Change
If you’re reading this, hopefully you not only “believe” in climate change, but you also realize that it is both a serious threat, and is caused by human action. Believe is in quotes in that sentence because this isn’t a matter of faith, or a matter of agreeing to...
by Admin | Dec 9, 2015 | Articles
On December 6, 2015, eighty-four-year-old Tu Youyou arrived at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden and collected China’s first Nobel Prize in medicine for producing an anti-malarial drug that helped millions of people across the world. Tu believes the award...
by Admin | Dec 7, 2015 | Articles, Climate Change
As a species, we’ve been talking about global warming for a couple of decades now, and many of us have been taking it seriously. We’ve been warned of a number of potential side effects of climate change, such as global flooding, droughts, longer and more widespread...
by Admin | Nov 13, 2015 | Articles, Climate Change
Aerosols are tiny particles, liquid or solid, that are suspended in the air. You’re probably familiar with the word from spray-paint or hairspray, and if you’d old enough, you may remember hearing that they were bad for the ozone layer. Well, there are lots of things...
by Admin | Nov 12, 2015 | Articles, Climate Change, Conservation
Plastic litter in the oceans has been a problem for decades, and one that has become worse over time. Now, scientists have verified for the first time that some of that litter has been making its way into the Arctic Circle, specifically in the Fram Strait between East...
by Admin | Nov 9, 2015 | Articles, Climate Change, Green Energy
According to scientists as the University of South Carolina, we might one day be able to reuse carbon dioxide as fuel making it, ironically, green fuel. Burning fossil fuels produces carbon dioxide, or CO2, which when introduced to the atmosphere in too great a...
