by Admin | Jul 18, 2018 | Climate Change, Sustainability
For decades now, we’ve seen climate change take its toll on regional populations around the globe. Severe weather events, shortages of food and water and otherwise unstable living conditions have all forced people to uproot their lives and relocate, a phenomenon known...
by Admin | Dec 14, 2016 | Climate Change, Environmental hazards
Thanks to global climate change, we’re likely to see a huge increase in the number and intensity of extreme rainfall events by the middle of the 21st century. Extreme rainfall events cause flash floods and other problems for local infrastructure, and can be quite...
by Admin | Dec 7, 2016 | Climate Change, Environmental hazards, Sustainability
California now has 102 million dead trees, a number that increased 62 million just in 2016 alone, according to the U.S. Forest Service. This is because the state has been in a severe drought for the last five years, with some parts of California not having seen rain...
by Admin | Sep 9, 2016 | Climate Change, Conservation, Sustainability
The decline of the Mayan civilization after the 9th century has long remained, and likely will remain, a mystery. As with any such situation, there were likely a lot of factors, but one of them might have been water. Computer models developed at Technical University...
by Admin | Aug 25, 2015 | Articles, Climate Change
California has been having water problems for a while now, and the drought this summer has been particularly bad. One way to lessen the blow of that drought is to protect reservoir water from evaporating, thus prolonging supplies and reducing the need to tap into...
