by Beth Holmes | Feb 28, 2022 | Climate Change, Environmental hazards
Petropolis, Brazil was devastated this week by landslides, with over a hundred dead. Petropolis is a mountain city in the Serra do Mar range in Brazil, with a population of over 300,000 people 40 miles upriver from Rio de Janeiro. And while landslides are an...
by Admin | Sep 1, 2015 | Articles, Climate Change
In 2013, a storm hit Colorado’s Front Range area that set a number of records. In a matter of 5 days, the area received about a year’s worth of normal rainfall, between 7 and 18 inches in most parts of Boulder and Larimer counties. The storm caused mudslides,...
by Admin | May 16, 2015 | Articles, Conservation
In a recent study, researchers from the University of Delaware summarized the state of the world’s soil, and it’s not positive. They found that soil quality has reached a low point never before seen. Poor global soil quality is the byproduct of a number of factors,...
