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What does England’s current heatwave mean?
Simple as that. Photo by piblet (source: Flickr Creative Commons) Today’s temperatures are predicted go as high hit 30C (85F) making it the hottest day of the year in England, with temperatures highest...
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The environmental situation of the Tiber River
The circulation of groundwater in Rome is being threatened by great transformations in natural physiographic systems completely upset by great peripheral urban settlements. Rome is supplied by...
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El Niño explained
Warming, which is a global climatic phenomenon, responsible for flood and drought in various parts of the globe, moves and gains strength. Experts “called into question all meteorological models...
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Geo-engineering and the problem of sea levels
Geo-engineering doesn’t prevent at all the rise of the tides. Engineering on a global scale is not a solution, even in an emergency, to the climate damage caused by human activities. This is the...
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch: The Parabolic Toilet of the Environment
“This is the most shocking thing I have seen” - Oprah Winfrey In the middle of the Pacific Ocean there is a maelstrom of debris twice the size of Texas. It has been affectionately given a variety of...
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FOCUS // CHINA – The Dark Side of Recycling: China’s E-Waste
Image source: Alex Hofford Photography “The Choice Between Poverty and Poison” Parts of China are awash in electronic waste, or “e-waste”; a rising tide of circuit boards, glass monitors and other...
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Climate Change in light of the recent floods in Pakistan
“There is insufficient data to say what will happen to the Indus,” says David Grey, the World Bank’s senior water advisor in South Asia. “But we all have very nasty fears that the flows of the Indus...
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Video: Rappin’ climate scientists dis skeptics
image by Meltron 3000 (iammeltron on Flickr CC) In the tradition of classic hip-hop feuds like Kool Moe Dee vs LL Cool J or Tupac vs. Biggie, a group of Australian climate scientists have made a full...
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UK govt. publishes environmental plans for next 50 years
photo by Anita363 (Flickr CC) The UK government has released the Natural Environment White Paper, an official report on its environmental vision for the next 50 years. In the wake of the somewhat...
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Hurricane Irene: After the Bahamas now New York
Image source NASA While passing over the Bahamas, Hurricane Irene destroyed close to 90% of all houses in two settlements. Fortunately there were no casualties. Sadly, in the Dominican Republic, three...
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BlablaCar: Share a car, split the costs and save tons of CO2 at the same time
BlablaCar is a community-based travel service. Founded in 2006, the site now has over 1.5 million drivers and passengers and is growing by over 50,000 users every month. BlaBlaCar logo The concept of...
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The Easy Fix That Isn’t: White Roofs May Increase Global Warming
Image by Walmart Stores (source: Flickr) If you’re interested in staving off climate change without trying too hard, painting your roof white seems like a complete no-brainer. It’s far cheaper than...
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Global Warming in 5 steps: How does it affect Wildlife?
Image courtesy of NRDC When it comes to global warming, humans have certainly felt the effects, and this year more than ever. With one weather disaster after another hammering the globe (there were a...
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Does La Nina Fuel Flu Pandemics?
By Andrew Freedman Image by nasa.org It often seems like weather forecasters blame everything unusual on El Niño or La Niña, be it a drought, a heat wave, or a snowless winter. But this natural climate...
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What’s Beneath Antarctica’s Ice? No, Not Hitler’s Remains
An aerial view of the world's coldest continent, Antarctica. Credit: NASA. By Michael D. Lemonick Legend has it that in the final days of the Third Reich, loyalists smuggled Adolf Hitler’s remains out...
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International Woman’s Day: Women Are The True Face of Climate Change
By Alyson Kenward While the cumulative effects of rising global temperatures have already caused dramatic changes to our planet, those changes often seem distant and it’s hard to put faces to them. But...
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If We’re Altering Rain, Hail, Any Doubts Left on Climate?
By Andrew Freedman COMMENTARY One of the biggest hurdles to overcome when communicating climate science is the resistance many have to accepting the notion that human activities are capable of altering...
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Reducing your carbon footprint – a checklist
Image by Parksy1964 (source: Flickr) The key to a green future is doing a little at a time, and considering all the options At this point we’re past the stage where energy saving and renewables are...
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Now You Sea It, Now You Don’t: Watch Arctic Sea Ice Melt
Image Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio One of the most striking changes that has taken place in the Arctic since the start of satellite monitoring in 1979 is the...
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Extreme Weather and Climate Change: The Public Gets It
By Michael D. Lemonick For years, we who communicate about climate change have been wringing our hands over how to make people understand the problem at a gut level. Endangered polar bears? Too far...
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