by Beth Holmes | Oct 18, 2021 | Climate Change, Sustainability
Glaciers in Africa are few and far between, but they’re important to the continent, both as important water storage and as a barometer of climate change. Africa as a whole is warming and becoming arid faster than the global average. A new report from the World...
by Beth Holmes | 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 Holmes | 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 Holmes | 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 Holmes | 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 Holmes | 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...
