by Admin | Dec 19, 2016 | Climate Change
The retreat of glaciers around the world has long been heralded as a definitive symbol of the effects of human activity on the global climate. However, due to a great deal of variability between glaciers, it’s been hard to actually pin that retreat on global climate...
by Admin | Dec 5, 2016 | Conservation, Environmental hazards
Between 1998 and 2013, the global average surface temperature, one of several measurements used to gauge how much the Earth has warmed, grew more slowly than we expected. That has had scientists asking a lot of questions. The period has become known as the global...
by Admin | Dec 2, 2016 | Sustainability
Though it tends to get ignored in favor of the more dramatic (and obvious) dangers posed by fossil fuels, the meat industry is a huge contributing factor in global climate change. This happens in a couple of ways. For one, animals like cows produce a lot of methane,...
by Admin | Nov 28, 2016 | Environmental hazards
The Ocean Cleanup is a Dutch foundation that was created to address issues like the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a swirling mass of plastics and other debris that floats between Hawaii and California. It is one of the most dramatic examples of what happens to litter...
by Admin | Nov 21, 2016 | Climate Change
One constant of climate change forecasts is that natural disasters will occur with more frequency and severity. Nowhere is this easier to study, and perhaps more pressing, than in Australia, a continent known for its extreme environment. A recent study, the...
