January 8, 2017, by Tim Radford New research forecasts much colder weather in northern Europe if rising CO2 emissions continue to impact on the Atlantic ocean current. LONDON, 8 January, 2017 – Here is the long-term weather forecast for the North Atlantic, in a world … Continue reading Ocean current sends out chilling warning
By Erica Goode JAN. 9, 2017 Federal wildlife officials on Monday called climate change the biggest threat to the survival of the polar bear and warned that without decisive action to combat global warming, the bears would almost certainly disappear from much of the Arctic. … Continue reading Human-Driven Global Warming Is Biggest Threat to Polar Bears, Report Says
A sad reality … January 2, 2017, by Santosh Koirala The flowering season of the Himalayan rhododendron has moved forward by three months in response to climate change. RANPUR, Nepal, 2 January, 2017 – The rhododendron, one of the most popular and colourful small evergreen … Continue reading Himalayan bloom brings spring forward
by Eric Barton January 2017 You’ve seen those videos from a half-century ago predicting a rosy future, right? Everything in the kitchen is done with the push of a button, and we all zip along in cars controlled by robots. It all seems a bit … Continue reading The Future Of Fort Lauderdale: Here’s What Our City Might Look Like In 2050
Aneri Pattani, Oct. 25, 2016 When one of the largest California wildfires on record broke out in 2013, raging for more than two months and threatening San Francisco’s water supply coming from Yosemite,firefighters used drones to get aerial shots of the blazeand determine the … Continue reading Building the city of the future — at a $41 trillion price tag
Amy Lieberman – 10/14/16 The severe risk of climate change and rising sea levels on urban areas has not been addressed in the UN’s proposed New Urban Agenda, so flood-risk cities will have to learn from each another and share solutions. Current projections of global … Continue reading Global sea levels are rising fast, so where does that leave the cities most at risk?
Every October, the king tide sweeps across South Florida as the full moon orbits closest to Earth. This alignment causes the highest water level of the year. Roads and yards flood. But scientists say this could be one of the worst Fort Lauderdale has faced — … Continue reading Hurricane Nicole and King Tide Already Flooding Fort Lauderdale
“When the earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear. When that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them.” —Chief Seattle Happy Earth Day! Perhaps we will learn, before it is too late, that we can all be Warriors of … Continue reading Earth Day 2016 – 7 things we’ve learned about Earth since the last Earth Day
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