October 26, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Credit: AP Photo.Article Synopsis – As California suffers widespread power outages, mass evacuations from wildfires, and record-breaking winds, former Gov. Brown is warning the country that this is the new normal. According to Brown, “This is serious …. but this is only the beginning. This ...
Read More...October 25, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Credit: SERGIO MORAES / REUTERS.Article Synopsis – According to a new report from the UN climate panel, if carbon emissions continue, “sea-level rise will become unmanageable and life will flee the world’s tropical oceans”. The report also noted that mercury and toxic bacteria will increase in seafood, ...
Read More...October 24, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Credit: Mark Basarab on Unsplash.Article Synopsis – Increasing sea level rise combined with land subsidence is causing large swaths of forests, which researchers have dubbed ghost forests, along the east coast to die off from salt water intrusion. Residents in many communities surrounding ghost forests ...
Read More...October 23, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Credit: DREW ANGERER / GETTY IMAGES.Article Synopsis – In a stunning hearing, former Exxon scientists testified before congress that Exxon executives knew about climate change as early as the 1970’s and pushed a disinformation campaign to delay action on it. “Exxon is one of the ...
Read More...October 22, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – “Alarming new research by the National Audubon Society finds two-thirds of North American bird species — 389 different species — are at risk of extinction from climate change.” Nearly 3 billion birds have already “disappeared from the U.S. and Canada” in the last 50 ...
Read More...October 21, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Credit: Wang Jiang–Xinhua News Agency/Getty Images.Article Synopsis – UN climate scientists have estimated it will cost $300 billion to restore 900 million hectares (~5 billion acres) of degraded land into trees or crops that could stabilize carbon emissions for 20 years. “At least a third ...
Read More...October 19, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – Russian scientists in the Arctic found that methane emissions over the East Siberian Sea are up to nine times the global average. This is the highest concentration of methane ever recorded and is caused by the melting permafrost on the sea floor. ...
Read More...October 18, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Credit: Simon Albert, Author provided.Article Synopsis – In the Solomon Islands, where sea levels are rising at three times the global average, at least five islands have been lost to sea level rise and erosion. “Wave energy appears to play an important role in the dramatic ...
Read More...October 17, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Credit: David Tipling Getty Images.Article Synopsis – According to a new study, increased snowfall in Greenland caused plants and animals to delay their life cycles, resulting in an almost complete reproductive failure. The increased snowfall was “part of the global trend of northern latitudes getting ...
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