by Admin | Oct 7, 2020 | Articles, Climate Change
This September was, on average, 0.05C hotter than the average temperature last September, according to the European Union weather service Copernicus. That may seem like a small difference to a layman, but it also means that September 2020 is the hottest September on...
by Admin | Oct 5, 2020 | Climate Change, Conservation, Green Energy
The United Kingdom hasn’t made any hard commitments yet, but officials are discussing a chain of new clean energy policies. These policies are all tied into the idea of a “green” recovery for the British economy after the ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of them...
by Admin | Jul 27, 2020 | Climate Change, Conservation
With just a few exceptions, observed climate data only goes back to around the 1880s. That’s roughly when scientists more or less agreed on how to measure the large elements of climate (temperature, weather conditions, humidity, wind strength, and so forth) and how to...
by Admin | Apr 6, 2020 | Climate Change, Environmental hazards
The Trump Administration is set to roll back the Obama-era Safer Affordable Fuel Efficient (SAFE) Vehicle Rule. The changes would allow vehicles to emit about a billion tons more of carbon dioxide—about a fifth of annual emissions. And it’s just one of many EPA...
by Admin | Feb 28, 2020 | Climate Change, Conservation, Sustainability
In early 2017, the Svalbard seed vault made news when a troublesome flood threatened its irreplaceable stash of seeds. Buried in a mountain on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen in the Arctic Ocean and well above the Arctic Circle, the cold temperatures there are...
by Admin | Feb 7, 2020 | Climate Change, Environmental hazards
A new study that used artificial intelligence to study the impact of rising sea levels has revealed we could become a nation of climate refugees. The study, published in January in the journal PLOS ONE, is the first to use machine learning to project migration...
