March 27, 2018 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – Climate change will be the fastest-growing cause of species loss in the Americas by midcentury, according to a new set of reports from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), the leading global organization on ecosystems and biodiversity. In Africa, ...
Read More...March 26, 2018 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – In South Florida, taking steps to adapt to rising seas now by redesigning communities, reducing carbon emissions, and developing new technologies can lead to long-term solutions — and maybe even economic growth. South Florida could even have an edge in the global economy if ...
Read More...March 24, 2018 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – Researchers examined how future sea levels would be affected if the 2015 Paris Agreement’s goals were met and found that seas will continue rising until 2300 under even the best scenarios. Depending on how soon we begin reducing emissions this century, we ...
Read More...March 23, 2018 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – Businesses, investors, and individuals will soon have a tool to help them more clearly assess long-term risk before investing in real estate in South Florida. Land buyers can pay for straightforward, customized information rather than trying to assess risk from a constant ...
Read More...March 22, 2018 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – An international team of researchers is studying the potential of table salt to reflect the sun’s energy and temporarily slow global warming. The team has found sodium chloride (table salt) to be “remarkably superior” to aluminum oxide at scattering sunlight. Widespread use of aluminum oxide ...
Read More...March 21, 2018 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – The cities of San Francisco and Oakland are suing the world’s oil giants — Chevron, BP, Shell, and others — for extracting and selling fuels that the companies knew would stoke climate change and sea level rise. On Thursday, Judge Alsup listened as ...
Read More...March 20, 2018 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – Sea ice cover in the Arctic was the second-lowest on record this winter. Though there was slightly more ice overall compared to last year’s record-breaking low, scientists saw several troubling trends. During February, temperatures skyrocketed to a high more than 45 degrees above normal ...
Read More...March 19, 2018 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – Shell is expected to face a shareholder resolution calling at its annual meeting in May for a radical shift away from fossil fuels, highlighting mounting pressure on the world’s largest oil and gas companies over their contributions to global warming. While Shell has ...
Read More...March 17, 2018 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – Fifty years ago, the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) delivered a report to the American Petroleum Institute (API), which warned that rising CO2 levels could bring about climatic changes like temperature increases, melting of ice caps and sea level rise. To counter and slow down the effort to ...
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