by Beth Huffington | Oct 11, 2021 | Climate Change, Conservation, Sustainability
Climate demonstrators in Brussels marched in the thousands on Sunday, to let the world leaders at the U.N. climate summit due to start soon in Glasgow know that the world’s eyes are on them. The U.N.’s 26th Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26)...
by Beth Huffington | Sep 20, 2021 | Climate Change, Sustainability
The recent winter in New Zealand is the warmest on record, according to the island nation’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, the counterpart to NOAA in the United States. Winter in New Zealand, which runs from June through August, saw an...
by Beth Huffington | Sep 13, 2021 | Climate Change, Conservation, Sustainability
Raptor species around the world are in trouble, according to a new review of conservation data by two major wildlife groups. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Birdlife International collaborated to do a new analysis of bird population data for...
by Beth Huffington | Jul 1, 2021 | Climate Change
The Seattle summer has already been brutal, and that was before the record-breaking heat wave of the end of June 2021. Usually, Seattle calls it June-uary. Historically, the beginning of summer comes into the Emerald City on a carpet of fog and rain and only gradually...
by Beth Huffington | Jun 14, 2021 | Climate Change, Environmental hazards
The Pine Island Glacier is one of the largest bodies of ice in Antarctica, and one of the most active. It moves as rapidly as 4,000 meters a year (2.49 miles), and together with the Thwaites Ice Stream is the frozen version of a watershed for as much as 5 percent of...
by Beth Huffington | Apr 26, 2021 | Climate Change, Conservation
For over a thousand years, the blooming of cherry blossoms has been a key event of the year in Japan, celebrated by huge crowds. Celebrated, and recorded. Yasuyuki Aono, a researcher from Osaka Prefecture University, has collected records of the annual sakura (cherry...
