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 | Jan 10, 2020 | Climate Change
In December of 2019, NASA scientists released a new series of time-lapse videos of images of the glaciers in Alaska, Greenland, and Antarctica. All three series of images show how glacial retreat has spread across the polar regions as oceans have continued to warm,...
by Admin | Dec 11, 2019 | Climate Change, Profiles
In an amazing move that celebrates not only activism but youth activism, Time magazine has named climate activist Greta Thunberg as its Person of the Year. It’s not hard to see why. This teenage girl has galvanized the world around the message that a climate crisis is...
by Admin | Nov 25, 2019 | Climate Change, Information
Greenhouse gas concentrations are trending in the wrong direction. The World Meteorological Organization reported that atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and other greenhouse gases reached new highs in 2018. Before I go any farther,...
by Admin | Nov 15, 2019 | Climate Change
Since her arrival in the U.S. in late August, 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg has been touring the United States, meeting with fellow environmental activists and using her privilege to support indigenous activists trying to protect their sacred lands. She...
