A soldier tries to beat the heat. Image source: Daily Mail Although the U.S. military typically refrains from making public comment on politically sensitive topics, a report made public last August, published by the Army War College and written jointly by the Army, the Defense Intelligence Agency and NASA, makes […]
An Aedes albopictus female mosquito feeds on a human blood meal. Photo by James Gathany, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Image source: Science News A mosquito may not attack you with the same ferocity of a bear, but the mosquito attack is far more likely to occur. Further drawing […]
Rural towns that need to incorporate climate science into city plans often lack the budgets to do so. Image: Shutterstock In September of 2015, President Obama chartered the creation of a committee dedicated to translating the findings of the periodic National Climate Assessment into to practical advice so that towns, […]
Man’s deadliest enemy. Photo: Joel Sartore, National Geographic After the floods, famines and forced migrations that global warming is predicted to bring about, the spread of mosquitoes may seem like adding insult to injury. Mosquitoes, however, remain our deadliest animal adversary, killing an estimated 100 million humans worldwide. But it […]
Itaipú Dam. Image credit: Escuela de Organización Industrial Hydropower – the energy generated from flowing water – is renewable and emits relatively low amounts of carbon dioxide. Many see the expansion of hydropower as a way to offset fossil fuel-derived energy. In keeping with its green nature, environmental regulations exist […]
Image credit: Matt Rath/Chesapeake Bay Program For all the headlines it generates, climate change can still feel to many like a vague and distant threat, if not an outright straw man. Coastal communities, however, rarely enjoy such an advantage. A new study published Feb. 15 in the journal Science Advances, measures […]
Peru’s drying Rimac River. Photo by Jordan Kraft. While a polar vortex provides much of the northern hemisphere with a global warming paradox to mull over, another climate paradox plays out across the globe: despite intensifying rainfall, which is attributed to global warming, freshwater supplies are shrinking. Professor Ashish Sharma and […]
Image source: https://colombiareports.com/chiribiquete-national-park-in-heart-of-colombian-amazon-to-more-than-double-in-size/ War inflicts plenty of damage upon ecosystems (among other things), but peace carries its own pitfalls. In a study recently published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, Drs. Dolors Armenteras, Laura Schneider and Liliana María Dávalos, of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Rutgers and Stony Brook, respectively, describe how the Colombian […]
Photo source: https://www.orangeville.com/news-story/7959809-here-s-the-18-point-roadside-inspection-orangeville-police-will-follow-to-determine-whether-motorists-may-be-impaired-by-drugs/ Debates over political responses to climate change tend to concern large effects, such as preventing the submersion of large and heavily populated coastal cities and preventing the loss of economically vital cropland. A group of researchers from Harvard and MIT, however, have noticed at least two effects […]