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The Anthropocene’s Birthday, or the Birth-Year of Human-Accelerated Climate Change
The Anthropocene’s Birthday, or the Birth-Year of Human-Accelerated Climate Change Scientists have found a major spike in the amount of Carbon-14 within the tree rings of “The Loneliest Tree In The World,” which ring corresponds to October-December 1965. This tree is a Sitka Spruce, a species from the American Northwest (and into Canada) that was […]
Exposing Africa’s Manmade Water Crisis
Exposing Africa’s Manmade Water Crisis The imminent shutdown of Cape Town’s piped water network should serve as a wake-up call for all of Africa to overhaul urban water-management systems. Unfortunately, like Africa’s water resources themselves, Cape Town’s crisis seems likely to be wasted. About a decade ago, at a meeting of South African mayors convened […]
New Map Reveals Which Countries are Most Likely to Survive Climate Change
New Map Reveals Which Countries are Most Likely to Survive Climate Change Climate change is real, and it’s happening. But will you survive it? Melting ice caps, record high temperatures and rising sea levels are just some of the telltale signs. Climate change is one of the most pressing crises facing humanity. Caused by an […]
Why Waterloo Region Needs Greenbelt Protection
WHY WATERLOO REGION NEEDS GREENBELT PROTECTION Kevin Thomason is an eco-warrior who has battled for years to successfully protect thousands of acres of rural countryside in Waterloo Region. Today, Kevin’s vision is to build on local protections and further protect essential resources through Greenbelt expansion. He believes this is crucial to balance future urban growth, […]
Ozone loss may have caused mass extinction
Ozone loss may have caused mass extinction Pinus mugo in the French Pyrenees. Image: By Sébastien D’ARCO, via Wikimedia Commons The loss of ozone may have caused the extinction many millions of years ago of most life on Earth, scientists believe. LONDON, 21 February, 2018 – Californian scientists have found a new way to account […]
Acidification could leave oceans ‘uninhabitable’ for cold-water corals
Acidification could leave oceans ‘uninhabitable’ for cold-water corals The world’s oceans could become “uninhabitable” for cold-water corals by the end of the century as a result of ocean acidification, research suggests. Ocean acidification, which occurs as seawater takes up CO2 from the atmosphere, could threaten around 70% of cold-water coral living below 1,500 metres in […]
10 Reasons Bicycling Will Continue to Soar in Popularity
10 REASONS BICYCLING WILL CONTINUE TO SOAR IN POPULARITY For too long biking has been viewed skeptically as a white-people thing, a big city thing, an ultra-fit athlete thing, a twenty-something thing, a warm weather thing or an upper-middle class thing. And above all else, it’s seen as a guy thing. But guess what? The […]
Half-Earth or Half Solution? E.O. Wilson’s Solution to Species Loss
Half-Earth or Half Solution? E.O. Wilson’s Solution to Species Loss Credit: David Barnas Credit: E.O Wilson Biodiversity Foundation Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life. Published by Liveright / W.W. Norton in March 2016 (ISBN 978-1-63149-082-8) Despite my somewhat snarky title, which is based on my assessment that Half-Earth is missing a key strategic component, E. […]
Breathing Highways and Sponge Cities
Breathing Highways and Sponge Cities “We could do worse than to go back to the way nature manages rainfall.“ During the 20th Century, the rate of global warming was twice as fast in Taiwan (1.7°C) as for the world as a whole (0.74°C). Partly as a result, the number of days with rainfall decreased dramatically and […]
New study questions impact of ending fossil fuel subsidies
New study questions impact of ending fossil fuel subsidies Ending the world’s fossil fuel subsidies would reduce global CO2 emissions by 0.5 to 2.2 gigatonnes (Gt) per year by 2030, a new study says. The research, published by Nature, concludes that the removal of subsidies would lead to bigger emissions reductions in oil and gas […]
The progress of this storm: Nature and society in a warming world
The progress of this storm: Nature and society in a warming world Andreas Malm’s powerful critique of current environmental philosophies puts historical materialism and cutting-edge science at the center of a call for militant action Andreas Malm THE PROGRESS OF THIS STORM Nature and society in a warming world Verso Books, 2018 reviewed by Ian […]
The Evolution of Growing Food
The Evolution of Growing Food QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; You previously mentioned that we can grow crops inside warehouses without the sun or soil. How did mankind survive the last mini Ice Age with dropping temperatures as we have seen in recent winters here in Europe? LW ANSWER: With each cycle, we tend to improve upon […]
We ignore urgent global warnings at our peril
We ignore urgent global warnings at our peril City lights in this nighttime view of Earth from space provides “an intuitively graspable view of our planet”. (Photo: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center via Flickr) A year ago, we revisited the 1992 “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity.” Signed by a majority of Nobel laureates in sciences […]
Australia’s ‘deadliest natural hazard’: what’s your heatwave plan?
Australia’s ‘deadliest natural hazard’: what’s your heatwave plan? Heatwaves are Australia’s deadliest natural hazard, but a recent survey has found that many vulnerable people do not have plans to cope with extreme heat. Working with the Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre and the Bureau of Meteorology, my colleagues and I surveyed 250 residents […]
