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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]