by Beth Holmes | Jan 10, 2022 | Climate Change, Conservation, Sustainability
Patagonia is the end of the world, if anyplace is, and it’s burning. Perched at the very southernmost tip of South America, the mountainous, fjord-crossed region is an inhabited wilderness. Almost 2 million people live there, on either side of the border between...
by Beth Holmes | Dec 13, 2021 | Climate Change, Environmental hazards
Heat is expensive, is the not particularly surprising conclusion of a recent study in Phoenix, Arizona by the Nature Conservancy. The Nature Conservancy is a nonprofit environmental organization which funds and maintains nature preserves and studies better ways to...
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 | 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 | 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...
