by Admin | Apr 4, 2018 | Environmental hazards
As of March 2018, it’s been almost four years since the residents of Flint, Michigan, have had clean drinking water coming out of their faucets. There’s a colorfully painted wall near one of the main streets into Flint, where a tally is updated every day of how many...
by Admin | Feb 28, 2018 | Climate Change, Environmental hazards
Climate change has done a great deal of damage to cities in the U.S. and abroad—every year the environment is harmed is another year communities have to deal with serious problems including damaged infrastructures, hindered economies, and diminished supplies of food...
by Admin | Feb 14, 2018 | Climate Change, Environmental hazards
Climate change already has an impact on a number of decisions that are made around the world every day, ranging from how government agencies allocate their budget dollars to how companies shape their long-term business strategies. According to The New York Times, it...
by Admin | Nov 22, 2017 | Climate Change, Environmental hazards, Sustainability
Twenty-five years ago a group of 1,700 independent scientists, most of them Nobel laureates, joined the Union of Concerned Scientists in issuing a manifesto called the “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity.” It was pretty much as dire as it sounds. Gathering together...
by Admin | Nov 15, 2017 | Climate Change, Environmental hazards, Information
In 2014, a landslide in Oso, Washington, sent 270 million cubic feet of mud through a neighborhood, killing 43 people and destroying 49 homes. The slide covered a 1-square-mile area, and it is the deadliest landslide in U.S. history. An engineering report found that...
by Admin | Oct 11, 2017 | Conservation, Environmental hazards
The Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge is a 20-mile stretch of coastline running from Melbourne Beach to Wabasso Beach in southern Brevard County, Florida. It’s also one of the most important breeding sites for threatened loggerhead and green turtles. Unfortunately,...
