Young Gorillas Have Learned to Dismantle Poacher's Traps in The Wild
From our community:In Rwanda’s Volanoes National Park, poachers construct thousands of rope and branch snares to catch antelope and other game species. Animal snares are constructed by tying a rope...
View ArticleRick Scott, Cabinet ordered to create new voting rights restoration system...
"Defendants essentially repackage the current scheme into proposed remedies permitting the governor and the board to do, as the governor described, 'whatever we want' in denying voting rights to...
View ArticleCan an influx of Democratic-leaning climate migrants in Florida tip the...
From our community:Puerto Rican’s arriving stateside have a learning curve to master when it comes to Florida politics. Sebastien Malo and Adriana Brasileiro writing for the Thomson Reuters Foundation...
View ArticleAfrican people, who depend on agriculture-based economies, stare down an...
From our community:“The trends in Africa of hot summers getting hotter and rainy seasons drying out are linked with factors that include increasing greenhouse gases and aerosols in the atmosphere....
View ArticleMedic! Ants injured while hunting for termites get help from paramedic-style...
Researchers for a new study of insects found that individual ants are of little value to the colony of a species of ant from Sub-Sahara Africa. Ant’s after all have a massive population and losing an...
View ArticleYou can kiss much of California's agriculture goodbye because of climate change.
There are an estimated 77,500 farms in California, the largest and most varied agricultural state in the nation. California produces over one-third of the country’s vegetables and two-thirds of its...
View Article'Extreme' Changes Underway in Some of Antarctica’s Biggest Glaciers
“This retreat has had a huge impact on inland glaciers, because releasing them from the sea bed removes friction, causing them to speed up and contribute to global sea level rise.” Hannes Konrad Centre...
View ArticleAfrica is splitting into two after tear in Kenya’s Rift Valley
Video and images of a massive chasm in Kenya have gone viral. Rifting in the great rift valley is hardly breaking news. But what is new, is that the rifting can now be seen in real time thanks to heavy...
View ArticleWorld's largest high Arctic lake shows startling new evidence of climate change
From our community:Lake Hazen, located on northern Ellesmere Island in Canada’s far north is, by volume, the largest lake north of the Arctic Circle. Arctic indigenous people’s first arrived at Lake...
View ArticleCalifornia Crops Rot as Trump's Immigration Crackdown Creates Farmworker...
Tired of all the winning yet America?I recently shared a story on the effects of a warming world on agriculture that will reduce the bounty of our largest State that grows most of our produce. The...
View ArticleMiami streets could flood every single day by 2070 under many climate models,...
From our community:More grim news for the country’s sea coasts as yet another faster then expected impact from climate change has been identified. NOAA released a report in March that is anything but...
View ArticlePlight of Phoenix: How long can the world’s 'least sustainable' city survive?
From our community:“There are plans for substantial further growth and there just isn’t the water to support that. The Phoenix metro area is on the cusp of being dangerously overextended. It’s the...
View ArticleInfluence of global warming on U.S. heat waves may be felt first in the West...
“No one wanted to pay attention to the implications of a world four degrees warmer… It's too horrendous to think about. And no one talked about it. Then a few scientists said let's have a conference...
View ArticlePine Island Glacier calves again.
FYI. Breaking news from NASA on Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier (PIG) where a 72 square mile chunk of ice calved from the ice shelf in early April. The iceberg appears to shatter upon calving. Pine...
View ArticleJudge to Pruitt's racist EPA: Do Your Job and Enforce Civil Rights Law
Finally some good news on Trump’s EPA, as a Federal Judge ruled that the agency must investigate, and respond to communities of color claims of environmental racism. The ruling follows the dismissal by...
View ArticleFinal numbers on Maria in Puerto Rico: $90 billion in damage, some Cat 5 winds
Hurricane Maria was the sixth fastest intensifying hurricane on record. The National Hurricane Center, in it’s final assessment, report that winds that slammed into the islands mountains were likely...
View ArticleWorld May Hit 2 Degrees of Warming in 10-15 Years Thanks to Fracking, Says...
Modern shale gas development is, in my opinion, reversing what nature has done over the last 400 million years or so. In shale gas development we’re releasing carbon that nature stored for all that...
View ArticleHuge area of Texas oil patch is heaving and sinking.
“Our analysis looked at just this 4000-square-mile area. We’re fairly certain that when we look further, and we are, that we’ll find there’s ground movement even beyond that. This region of Texas has...
View ArticleA North American Climate Boundary Has Shifted 140 Miles East Due to Global...
From our community:“I used to think that top environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and climate change. I thought that thirty years of good science could address these...
View ArticleFlorida Kids Sue Gov. Scott Over Climate Change: You Have 'Moral Obligation'...
One week after announcing his decision to run against Bill Nelson for Florida’s Senate seat during this years mid-term election, Rick Scott has once again found himself at odds with Florida’s youth....
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