by Beth Holmes | Mar 28, 2022 | Climate Change, Environmental hazards, Information
Early warning systems for natural disasters are the topic of a new UN project, as extreme weather grows more common due to climate change. Early warning systems, like tornado sirens, air quality alerts, hurricane trackers, and fire towers, save thousands of lives. And...
by Beth Holmes | Mar 21, 2022 | Climate Change, Conservation, Sustainability
‘Duty of Care’ about the environment is up for debate again in the Australian courts, unfortunately. In 2020, eight student activists took Australia’s Environment Minister Sussan Ley to court to try to stop her from approving the expansion of a...
by Beth Holmes | Mar 7, 2022 | Climate Change, Conservation, Environmental hazards, Sustainability
The Great Barrier Reef may not outlast this generation, if conditions don’t improve. A UN climate report released on Monday identified 127 major consequences of rising global temperatures, some of them already happening, some of them irreversible. One...
by Beth Holmes | Feb 28, 2022 | Climate Change, Environmental hazards
Petropolis, Brazil was devastated this week by landslides, with over a hundred dead. Petropolis is a mountain city in the Serra do Mar range in Brazil, with a population of over 300,000 people 40 miles upriver from Rio de Janeiro. And while landslides are an...
by Beth Holmes | Feb 21, 2022 | Climate Change, Conservation, Environmental hazards, Sustainability
The megadrought in the American West is the worst in at least 1200 years, according to a recent study by UCLA researchers, and human-led climate change is a key part of it. Park Williams, a climate hydrologist at UCLA, has been studying the history of soil hydration...
by Beth Holmes | Feb 7, 2022 | Climate Change, Sustainability
Winter sports are facing a widespread difficulty this year – there’s not enough winter weather. The Alpine World Cup began in Beaver Creek, Colorado last December, a ski resort at almost a mile and a half elevation in the Rocky Mountains. Ordinarily in December,...
