Category: BUMMER

Photo: Keystone spill With its latest leak of nearly 600,000 gallons into a northern Kansas creek (part of a watershed[…]

Rising temperatures are leading to extended, late-summer weeks of water stratification in lakes, promoting oxygen deprivation in the water with[…]

The number of our planet’s lakes has increased substantially in recent decades, especially small lakes. Bacteria and fungi feeding on[…]

Photo: Tibetan plateau The next pandemic may come from melting ice, not bats or birds. Genetic analysis of soil and[…]

Tens of thousands of microbes have been found in each milliliter of collected surface meltwaters from eight European and North[…]

Directly affecting plants, increased concentrations of CO2 worsen the nutritional quality of food by decreasing protein and mineral concentrations from[…]

Photo: Boston’s “Emerald Necklace”  Several parks designed by Olmsted (father of landscape architecture) and his sons are now dying from[…]

As Egypt warms almost twice as fast as the rest of the world, the Nile is drying up. Rising seawater[…]

Ice is continuously streaming off Greenland’s melting glaciers at an accelerating rate, dramatically increasing global sea levels. How much ice[…]

The past eight years are on track to be the eight warmest on record. The rate of sea level rise[…]