by Admin | Sep 12, 2018 | Climate Change
As a general rule, people tend to care more about political issues when they’re affected by them directly. You care about healthcare when you lose insurance, you pay attention to taxes when your rates go up, and so on. This is why, among climate change advocates, the...
by Admin | Apr 26, 2017 | Climate Change, Environmental hazards, Information
Wildfires are an inevitable part of the American west, and, according to a new paper published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, they’ve been increasing in frequency and severity since the 1970s. A record-breaking fire near Boulder,...
by Admin | Mar 1, 2017 | Environmental hazards
According to recent research from the University of Colorado Boulder, humans have dramatically increased the extent and duration of wildfire season. It used to be that wildfires happened most often in the summer and tapered off dramatically after that. However, it now...
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...
