Photographing Climate Change In Africa
Despite consuming a paltry amount of the world’s resources, many predict that it is the people of Africa who will bear the brunt of climate change’s dastardly effects. From Nigeria to Ghana, African...
View ArticleVisualizing Climate Change, A Moving Look At Climate Change’s Impact
The effects of climate change are manifold. As evidenced by the following photographs, they do not take on a single, distinctive form, nor do they affect world regions the same way. Often confused with...
View ArticleThe Shrinking Aral Sea
The Aral Sea’s human-induced disappearing act has often been called one of the worst environmental disasters in the world, and rightly so. In one myopic swoop, 1960s Soviet leadership began to funnel...
View ArticleOur Global Energy Emergency
As scientists have documented that carbon dioxide emissions have passed a critical threshold, understanding the implications of our energy consumption levels is more important than ever. The post Our...
View ArticleAre Adults Blind To Climate Change?
No, this isn’t science. No, this isn’t from a large, random sample. But if children are cognizant of certain truths and adults aren’t, the issue of recognizing climate change is one based on naïveté...
View ArticleSix Animal Signs That Planet Earth Is Sick
Source: Wikimedia Commons Perhaps animals are smarter and more sensitive than homo sapiens give them credit for. Take, for example, the theory that animals can predict earthquakes, a notion that dates...
View ArticleThen And Now: Lake Oroville Dries Up During Drought
Lake Oroville, July 20, 2011, before California’s historic drought truly took hold. Photo: Paul Hames/California Department of Water Resources via Getty Images It may sound strange, but in March...
View ArticleAstounding Grizzly-Polar Bear Hybrid Found In Canada
Stefan David/Flickr A grizzly-polar bear hybrid, known as the pizzly or the grolar, has recently been spotted around Western Canada and Alaska — and some think climate change is behind it. This...
View ArticleOnly One American City Will Be Cool Enough To Host The Summer Olympics In 2088
Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images Researchers have recently discovered that climate change will severely limit our choice of host cities for the Summer Olympics within this very century. According to a new...
View Article6 Diseases Global Warming Can Initiate Or Intensify
Rising sea levels aren’t the only signs and symptoms of a warming world — these diseases may also make a comeback. GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP/Getty Images / ATI Composite Add the phrase “zombie pathogens” to...
View Article5 Cities Teetering on the Brink of Disaster
Pompeii was a disaster waiting to happen. Your town may be one too, if you live in one of these cities. Wikimedia CommonsThe ruins of Pompeii. At about noon, on August 24, 79 AD, the 20,000 people who...
View ArticlePope Francis: Earth “A Wasteland Of Filth” Due To Short-Sighted Thinking
Franco Origlia/Getty Images Pope Francis is soldiering on in his quest to protect the planet, this Thursday calling for even more decisive action against environmental degradation and climate change....
View ArticleTrump’s Deplorables Think Hurricane Matthew Is A Liberal Conspiracy
JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty ImagesHurricane Matthew strikes Atlantic Beach, Florida on October 7. Former telemarketer Matt Drudge, owner of the massively popular (at least among Donald Trump’s “deplorables”)...
View ArticleRising Sea Levels To Disproportionately Affect U.S., Warns NOAA
A new report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) confirms that rising global sea levels will disproportionately affect the U.S. Co-authored by the Environmental Protection...
View ArticleHumanity Is Accelerating Natural Climate Change By A Factor Of 170
LIONEL BONAVENTURE/AFP/Getty Images Humanity now has a number to represent the damage it’s doing to the Earth. Researchers have developed the “Anthropocene Equation” and worked out that humans are...
View ArticleScientists Make Plan To Save The Arctic By “Refreezing” It
NSIDC/Ted Scambos A group of scientists has devised a way to save the Arctic Ocean: re-freeze it. Recently published in the scientific journal Earth’s Future, the plan calls for 10 million wind-powered...
View ArticleSiberia’s “Doorway to the Underworld” Is Growing And You Won’t Like Why
Research Institute of Applied Ecology of the NorthThe Batagaika crater, otherwise known as the “doorway to the underworld.” Known to locals as the “doorway to the underworld,” one of the biggest...
View ArticleHistory Shows The Paris Climate Change Talks Will Fail. Here’s Why.
The Paris climate change talks – better known as the 21st United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) – are taking place until mid-December, and world leaders are looking to finally...
View ArticleWhat We Loved This Week, Nov. 29-Dec. 5
The new world’s tallest building, Beijing’s citizen’s colorful solution for the city’s surreal pollution problem, the priceless last words of famous figures, Patagonia’s disappearing glaciers, an...
View ArticlePhoto Of The Day: China’s Traditions, Suffocated By Smog
After a ceaseless torrent of expectation, disagreement, and media analysis, the historic climate talks in Paris are finally drawing to a close. Just this afternoon, a new draft of the agreement was...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....