Arctic shows no signs of returning to the reliably frozen state that it was...
The acting head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Timothy Gallaudet, released the 2017 Arctic Report Card. Unfortunately there is no good news in it, other than slightly less...
View ArticleTurning hurricanes into music: Can listening to storms help us understand...
Fascinating!The 2017 hurricane season provided a glimpse into what climate change enhanced hurricanes will look like. The North Atlantic hurricanes devastated communities from Houston to Barbuda.At...
View ArticleTrump will drop climate change from US National Security Strategy
The tRump regime will drop climate change as a top priority of global threats according to The Guardian.This new stance on our country’s national security appears to be yet another reversal on the...
View ArticleHow a Polluter Is Capitalizing on Disaster in Puerto Rico
Hannah Chang of Earth Justice has a must read story on a corporate polluter that is taking advantage of the catastrophe in Puerto Rico to pressure the GOP congress “to amend the Puerto Rico Oversight,...
View ArticleEPA Considers Allowing Bee-Killing Pesticide to Be Sprayed on 165 Million...
This is sickening. Scott Pruitt’s EPA is considering using the pollinator killing thiamethoxam pesticide on major food crops which cover 165 million acres of US farmland. Crops that will be sprayed are...
View ArticlePuerto Rico governor declares war on the GOP-Will campaign against Republican...
"We will not stay quiet or still. This next year is a congressional election year and I will be visiting all those jurisdictions to let them know what some of these members of Congress did, saying one...
View ArticlePuerto Rico Gets Coal, Diesel, and Debris for Christmas. Foreclosure crisis...
The New Republic has a must read post on the environmental and health impacts to Puerto Rico’s people since Hurricane Maria slammed into the island like a wrecking ball. The article notes that 157 EPA...
View ArticleSaturday Morning Garden Blogging Volume 13.51: The Fairchild Tropical...
Fairchild Tropical Botanical Garden is a true American treasure located about a 45 minute white knuckle drive from my home to Coral Gables in S. Miami. But the journey is so worth it. It has a hothouse...
View ArticleWhy It's So Hard To Get The Power Back On In Puerto Rico.
The aftermath of Hurricanes Maria and Irma on Puerto Rico has been quite cruel. The island still suffers from lack of electricity, cell phone signals and potable water. Houses that were not totally...
View ArticleThe World Is On The Verge Of Losing It's Favorite Drug To Climate Change.
This year will rank as one of the planet's top five warmest years on record according to new data from NOAA and NASA.NASA concludes that 2017 will be the 2nd warmest year on record behind 2016 which...
View ArticleIt’s Time to Discuss the Ethics of Subjecting New Humans to the Climate...
Huffington Post has an intriguing post from contributor James Carli, Drug Policy and Sustainability Consultant. It is an interesting read on what bringing a child into the world, which is doomed to...
View Article50,000 pounds of food intended for Puerto Rico will now aid evacuees in...
Thousands of pounds of food that was originally destined for Puerto Rico and other Caribbean islands sat in a FEMA warehouse in Jacksonville instead. FEMA in Florida, was not sure why the food was...
View ArticleLouisiana, Sinking Fast, Prepares to Empty Out Its Coastal Plain
“I’m almost forty. Do I want to start a whole new chapter in my life? Where do you want me to go?” Opie Griffin resident of Leeville, Lousisiana. The sea is coming in, and Louisiana is finalizing a...
View ArticleWhat the $*@% were we talking about while climate calamities swept over the...
So asks Zoya Teirstein who than provides the answer in a brilliant piece for Grist titled: Trump tweets overshadowed these major climate stories in 2017.It’s been a brutal year for the earth. Climate...
View ArticleAlaskan snowfall patterns are the most dramatic the region has seen in at...
Chelsea Harvey, on December 20, 2017, writes in Scientific American about a study that has found that snowfall in Alaska has increased over the past 150 years due to climate change. Chelsea notes that...
View ArticleHow the Republicans Silenced the Democrats after Harvey
More than half of Americans believe that climate change is responsible for the severity of recent hurricanes, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll published on October 20,2017. At the time 55...
View ArticleChocolate on track for extinction from climate change within 30-40 years
The nectar of the gods, chocolate, is in for a world of hurt from climate change experts warn.The cacao (Theobroma cacao) is a small understory tree native to the tropical rainforests of the Americas....
View ArticleAfter 60 million years of extreme living, seabirds are crashing
The global seabird population may have fallen by almost 70 per cent since 1950, a 2015 study suggests.The study, published in PLOS ONE, analyzed data on 162 species, representing 19 per cent of the...
View ArticleSydney Australia Basin-The hottest place on Earth. "Day Zero" water crisis...
The Sydney Australia Basin has been suffering from some of the most dangerous heat and humidity on earth with a high of 117F in Penrith. So hot that roads are melting. In addition to suffocating heat,...
View ArticleClimate Change May Have Helped Spark Iran’s Protests
Global climate change exacerbates problems such as poverty, social tensions, environmental degradation, ineffectual leadership and weak political institutions that threaten stability in a number of...
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