June 21, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Credit: Matt Cardy / Getty Images.Article Synopsis – The maiden voyage of the British submersible has led to the discovery that strengthening Antarctic winds contribute to sea level rise. “Antarctic winds have grown stronger as a result of the ozone layer’s depletion and increasing greenhouse ...
Read More...June 20, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Credit: Kathleen Flynn/Bloomberg via Getty Images.Article Synopsis – The Trump administration has refused to publicize government-funded research into how higher temperatures can damage crops and pose health risks. These peer-reviewed studies range from “a groundbreaking discovery that rice loses vitamins in a carbon-rich environment — ...
Read More...June 19, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – This week 74 medical and public health groups joined together to warn the public of the health crisis that climate change poses and to push for action to curb carbon emissions. Some of these groups include the “American Medical Association, the American ...
Read More...June 18, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Credit: NASA.Article Synopsis – Increased solar radiation from the hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica is effecting the weather and ecosystems in the southern hemisphere. “What we’re seeing is that ozone changes have shifted temperature and precipitation patterns in the southern hemisphere, and that’s ...
Read More...June 17, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Credit: John Taggart/New York Times.Article Synopsis – As disaster costs keep rising, a new debate has begun over which coastal communities should be saved if we can’t afford to save all of them. “New research identifies 241 cities of 25,000 people or more that will ...
Read More...June 15, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Credit: Christian Streib/CNN.Article Synopsis – This week “over 40% of Greenland experienced melting, with total ice loss estimated to be more than 2 gigatons (equal to 2 billion tons) in just one day”. “It is highly unusual for that much ice to be lost in ...
Read More...June 14, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Credit: AlamyArticle Synopsis – As the Arctic permafrost thaws, pollution, anthrax, toxic mercury, nuclear waste, and ancient diseases could be released by global warming. Diseases that have been previously wiped out, “like the Spanish flu, smallpox, or the plague, could be frozen in the permafrost”. ...
Read More...June 13, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Credit: Vatican Media/Reuters.Article Synopsis – Pope Francis has declared a global “climate emergency”, warning of the dangers of global heating and that a failure to act urgently to reduce greenhouse gases would be “a brutal act of injustice toward the poor and future generations”. He also endorsed ...
Read More...June 12, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – As climate change causes ocean waters warm, flesh-eating bacteria is spreading north to waters once too cold to harbor them. Normally found in the southeastern part of the U.S., five cases of flesh-eating bacteria have recently been reported in Delaware Bay. To ...
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