ACCELERATED ARCTIC ICE LOSS
Partial photo: William Justen de Vasconcellos Arctic ice levels logged in the last two years have reached record lows,[…]
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AN IMPENDING CALAMITY – Chapter 2
CHAPTER TWONEXT DAYOFFICECENTER FOR CLIMATE SYSTEMS RESEARCHCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, EARTH INSTITUTEMANHATTANKYLE HARDIN WASN’T READY TO SPIT NAILS, BUT HE CERTAINLY WAS[…]
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WONDERFUL WHEATGRASS
Photo from Land Institute website Kernza, a wheatgrass, is a distant relative of regular wheat. It doesn’t produce nearly as[…]
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EMISSIONS FROM WATER BODIES
Partial photo: Leon Ephraim Rivers and streams are a large source of greenhouse gases with water pollution making their emissions[…]
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INEXPENSIVE WAVE ENERGY GENERATORS
Photo: Universities of Trento, Bologna and Edinburgh, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna Pisa A simple, low-cost energy generator could produce the equivalent[…]
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CLIMATE REFUGEES
Partial photo: Chris Gallagher More than 1.2 million Americans are currently displaced from their homes thanks to climate change impacts—including[…]
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TERRIFIC TRAIN
Photograph: Courtesy of Carnegie Mellon The world’s first battery-electric freight train, the FLXdrive battery-electric locomotive, underwent successful trials in California[…]
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FOX IN THE HENHOUSE
I avoid bringing up politics in this blog, but the following is beyond the pale. Senator Joe Manchin, West Virginia[…]
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STUPENDOUS SEA OTTERS
Partial photo: Anchor Lee Sea otters keep themselves warm by eating a quarter of their body weight in food a[…]
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GREENLAND ICE–GOING, GOING, GONE
Partial Photo: Alexander Marinescu More bad news for the Arctic Circle. For the first time in recorded history, in August[…]
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