February 26, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – A group of children suing the federal government for failing to protect them against climate change could change the energy landscape of the U.S. “The children are asking to get the federal government out of the business of in any way subsidizing ...
Read More...February 25, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – A new study has found that climate change has reduced fish populations by as much as 35% and has led to a 4% global decline in sustainable catches. The scientists warned that “the decline could threaten the livelihoods and food supplies of ...
Read More...February 23, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – After deforestation and climate change ravage their island, the villagers of Kokota planted 300,000 trees and transformed their economy. Kokota is a tiny island of about 500 people off the coast of Tanzania. It has become a symbol of climate change adaptation. To ...
Read More...February 22, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – The Bramble Cay melomy, a tiny rodent found on an island off the Australian coast, is officially the first mammal to be driven extinct by climate change. “A combination of increasingly intense coastal flooding and storm events exacerbated by warming temperatures continuously inundated the flat ...
Read More...February 21, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – The Brunt Ice Shelf on the northern coast of Antarctica is fracturing and could soon “release an iceberg about twice the size of New York City”. The iceberg is expected to measure 660 square miles (1,700 square km) and could jeopardize the stability ...
Read More...February 20, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – President Hilda Heine of the Marshall Islands has warned that the islands must be raised in order to avoid catastrophic damage from sea level rise. The Marshall islands cover 1,156 islands and has a population of 55,000. The government expects to have a ...
Read More...February 19, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – The White House is recruiting researchers who reject the scientific consensus on climate change to form a committee that will conduct “adversarial scientific peer review” of climate science. Most of the researchers recruited by the White House do not have a background in ...
Read More...February 18, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – Older politicians would be wise to heed the warnings of the young environmentalists who have taken the challenge of global warming head on. It is too late for modest changes to be enough to avert catastrophe. “As the IPCC noted in its ...
Read More...February 16, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – A new study suggests that by 2080, the United States will have a dramatically different climate than it does today due to global warming. If carbon emissions remain the same, a city’s climate will be more similar to cities much further south ...
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