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Polar Warning: Even Antarctica’s Coldest Region Is Starting to Melt
Polar Warning: Even Antarctica’s Coldest Region Is Starting to Melt East Antarctica is the coldest spot on earth, long thought to be untouched by warming. But now the glaciers and ice shelves in this frigid region are showing signs of melting, a development that portends dramatic rises in sea levels this century and beyond. No […]
How the World Passed a Carbon Threshold and Why It Matters
How the World Passed a Carbon Threshold and Why It Matters Last year marked the first time in several million years that atmospheric concentrations of CO2 passed 400 parts per million. By looking at what Earth’s climate was like in previous eras of high CO2 levels, scientists are getting a sobering picture of where we […]
Trouble in Paradise: Fatal Blight Threatens A Key Hawaiian Tree
Trouble in Paradise: Fatal Blight Threatens A Key Hawaiian Tree The ʻohiʻa is Hawaii’s iconic tree, a keystone species that maintains healthy watersheds and provides habitat for numerous endangered birds. But a virulent fungal disease, possibly related to a warmer, drier climate, is now felling the island’s cherished `ohi`a forests. Rikki Cooke/The Nature Conservancy An ‘ohi’a […]
On Burning Ground: The Human Cost Of India’s Push to Produce More Coal
On Burning Ground: The Human Cost Of India’s Push to Produce More Coal Girls scavenge coal at a dump site of an open-cast mine in the Jharia coalfield. View gallery. Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images As part of India’s modernization program, Prime Minister Narenda Modi has called for doubling the nation’s coal production by 2020. For the villages in […]
The Haunting Legacy of South Africa’s Gold Mines
The Haunting Legacy of South Africa’s Gold Mines Thousands of abandoned gold mines are scattered across South Africa, polluting the water with toxics and filling the air with noxious dust. For the millions of people who live around these derelict sites, the health impacts can be severe. The name is derived from “happy prospect” in Afrikaans, […]
Beyond Keystone: Why Climate Movement Must Keep Heat On
Beyond Keystone: Why Climate Movement Must Keep Heat On It took a committed coalition and the increasingly harsh reality of climate change to push President Obama to reject the Keystone XL pipeline. But sustained public pressure will now be needed to force politicians to take the next critical actions on climate. The key passage — […]
Natura 2000: EU Reserves Are Facing Development Pressures
Natura 2000: EU Reserves Are Facing Development Pressures An astonishing 18 percent of the European Union’s land area is protected under a network of preserves known as Natura 2000. Now, at the urging of business interests and farmers, the EU is examining whether regulations on development in these areas should be loosened. Berlin’s world-famous landmark, the […]
In Northern Canada Peaks, Scientists Are Tracking Impact of Vanishing Ice
In Northern Canada Peaks, Scientists Are Tracking Impact of Vanishing Ice In the summer of 1955, a floatplane flew a small group of American climbers to the edge of a massive icefield straddling the Continental Divide along the Yukon/Northwest Territories border in northern Canada. When the group saw the cluster of jagged peaks and sheer rock […]
