Source: mashable.com Published: May 15, 2017 Venice is sinking. Image: halcyon gallery By Maria Gallucci Italy’s famed city of Venice has grappled with flooding and encroaching waters since the Middle Ages. But as global warming speeds up sea level rise, the...
Source: treehugger.com Published: May 12, 2011 NOTE: This article has been updated since its original posting to include more facts (from 12 to 30) CC BY 2.0. Wikimedia Commons By Jaymi Heimbuch Welcome to almost 30 percent of the world’s forest cover. The...
Source: sciencedaily.com Published: May 9, 2017 Source: Wildlife Conservation Society Summary: Beavers, high elevation streams, and oyster reefs are just three of the weapons in the fight against climate change discussed in 14 Solutions to Problems Climate Change...
Source: nonprofitquarterly.org Published: July 20, 2016 Secuoyas gigantes, giant sequoias / Vicente Villamón Shafaq Hasan Portland Press Herald (Portland, ME) While state attorneys general may be trying to hold ExxonMobil accountable for its potential part in...
Source: globalwarmingisreal.com Published: May 22, 2012 Guest post by Mircea Giurca Climate change and reforestation Global reforestation is an important environmental issue of growing concern. International programs like the United Nations Initiative for Reducing...
Source: howtoconserve.org Published: February 26, 2016 Photo credit: Travel Photos HD. By Orion McCarthy LIFE ON EARTH wouldn’t be the same without forests. An estimated 1.6 billion people around the world depend on forests for their livelihood. Forests provide food...
Source: mnn.com Published: May 4, 2017 Paul Hawken’s (right) latest book has a number of ways to remedy climate change. (Photo: Ken Edelstein) By Lloyd Alter Paul Hawken has a message for all you climate warriors. Stop calling yourselves warriors! The...
Source: odditycentral.com Published: April 6, 2017 By Spooky Scientists in Germany recently turned on the “world’s largest artificial sun” a device made up of 149 Xenon short-arc lamps that can create about 10,000 times the amount of solar radiation we get on Earth....
Source: mnn.com Published: April 27, 2017 Device works in a similar way to how plants convert carbon dioxide and sunlight into food (Photo: Bernard Wilchusky/UCF) By Bryan Nelson University of Central Florida chemistry professor Fernando Uribe-Romo has finally...
Can global warming be reversed? Yes, says Paul Hawken’s Project Drawdown, a non-profit organization dedicated to exploring and advocating how we can reach drawdown – the point at which the concentration of greenhouse gas emissions starts to fall – within...
