by Guest Contributor | Apr 1, 2015 | Climate Change, Media
Thirty-five years ago, for two and half minutes – an eternity even then by TV news standards and a near-impossibility today – a broadcast anchored by The Most Trusted Man in America tried to warn us about climate change.
by Guest Contributor | Mar 24, 2015 | Climate Change, Ecology, Law & Policy, Water
A sweeping ocean conveyor system that ushers warm tropical waters into the North Atlantic appears to have partly recovered from a near-collapse around the time that the Beatles were breaking up.
by Guest Contributor | Mar 22, 2015 | Climate Change, EarthDesk Sunday
Patrick “Pat” Bagley is an American editorial cartoonist and journalist for The Salt Lake Tribune in Salt Lake City, Utah.
by Guest Contributor | Mar 4, 2015 | Climate Change, Law & Policy, Pollution, Technology
By Carol Rasmussen NASA’s Earth Science News Team Aerosol emission and transport, 9/1/06 to 4/10/07. Also included are locations, indicated by red and yellow dots, of wildfires and human-initiated burning. Via NASA Goddard Space Flight Center The residents of...
by John Cronin | Feb 24, 2015 | Climate Change, Energy, Law & Policy, Pollution
As we reported was likely, Congress’ passage of a bill to construct the Keystone XL Pipeline has proven to be symbolic. President Obama today vetoed the measure, an action more directed at protecting presidential authority than the environment. The...
by John Cronin | Feb 7, 2015 | Climate Change, Corporate Responsibility, Economics, International, Technology, Water
The global water crisis and climate change receive equal billing with unemployment and cyber security in the World Economic Forum report Global Risks 2015: As last year, concerns about environmental and economic risks remain, in particular around failure of...