by Beth Huffington | May 24, 2021 | Conservation, Environmental hazards
Mining, especially for valuable metals like copper, gold, silver, lead, and zinc, is a sizeable chunk of Peru’s economy. In 2019, mined goods accounted for just over 60 percent of Peru’s exports, generating 1.8 million jobs and almost $30 billion,...
by Beth Huffington | May 14, 2021 | Conservation, Environmental hazards, Resources
Seven percent of all renewable fresh water in the world is in Canada, twenty percent if you include sources considered non-renewable like glaciers and underground aquifers. For scale, Canada has about half of one percent of the world’s population. So there is...
by Beth Huffington | May 10, 2021 | Conservation
The Duck River, which flows from Normandy Lake through central Tennessee to the Tennessee River, is the most biodiverse river in North America, with over 151 species of native fish and 55 species of mussel. Eight of those species exist nowhere else on Earth, making...
by Beth Huffington | May 3, 2021 | Conservation, Sustainability
In the early 1700s, the estimated population of the American bison across North America was more than 60 million. They were a major food source for Native Americans from Alaska to Mexico, from New York to Georgia. Then with the western expansion of the United States...
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...
by Beth Huffington | Apr 19, 2021 | Climate Change, Conservation, Sustainability
The Klamath Basin watershed, which spans much of the length of the border between Oregon and California, is naturally arid, a long flat expanse which flows from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. But for the past several years, arid has become desiccated. The...
