by Admin | Dec 2, 2020 | Articles, Business, Climate Change
It’s not unusual for large businesses to weigh in on national policy – in fact, it could be said that it’d be strange for them to abstain – but General Motors and Walmart are not typically names one would expect to see on a lobbying action for climate...
by Admin | Oct 7, 2020 | Articles, Climate Change
This September was, on average, 0.05C hotter than the average temperature last September, according to the European Union weather service Copernicus. That may seem like a small difference to a layman, but it also means that September 2020 is the hottest September on...
by Admin | Jul 27, 2020 | Climate Change, Conservation
With just a few exceptions, observed climate data only goes back to around the 1880s. That’s roughly when scientists more or less agreed on how to measure the large elements of climate (temperature, weather conditions, humidity, wind strength, and so forth) and how to...
by Admin | Jun 26, 2020 | Environmental hazards, Sustainability
“Climate change is a killer, but we don’t acknowledge it on death certificates.” This quote, from Dr. Arnagretta Hunter, a professor at Australian National University’s Medical School, is a stark stab supported by the findings of expert analysis of over a...
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...
