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 […]
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 […]
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 […]