Experts of the field in studying one of the most puzzling regions in the Arctic for methane emissions, the East Siberian Arctic Shelf (ESAS) reported last October about the largest readings since studies started there 15 years ago. The region is known to be particular important due to it’s size, and low water depth, with…
VIDEO LINK More than one million people have been marooned in Nepal, Bangladesh and India as overflowing rivers wreak havoc. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/07/monsoon-floods-landslides-ravage-south-asia-221-dead-200717102403512.html Related Bangladesh struggles to aid cyclone-stricken communities https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zsgBPtdbpU Red Alerts in China as Floods Maroon Equipment to Fight Coronavirus https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2020-07-17/chinas-wuhan-declares-red-alert-as-floods-disrupt-supply-chains
The climate initiatives follow the unveiling of lengthy policy recommendations from joint task forces created by Biden and his onetime primary rival, the progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont. https://www.npr.org/2020/07/14/890814007/biden-outlines-2-trillion-climate-plan A comprehensive guide to Joe Biden’s $2 trillion climate plan Consisting of admirable highlights, noteworthy inclusions, and some blatant omissions, democratic nominee Joe Biden’s new…
It is paradoxical that the effects of the beauty industry on the earth are anything but beautiful. Their use of non-recyclables that mostly end up in landfills is alarming. Most of these nonrecyclables are used in the packaging of their products and numbers say that 70% of the plastic used by this industry are disposed…
We can link extreme weather in recent history to climate change, and intense rainstorms are no exception. A new report published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that anthropogenic activity is responsible for increased rainfall in North America. Human activity responsible for greenhouse gas emissions is not only upping the frequency of precipitation, but…
It’s difficult to imagine, but currently the Netherlands is on a trajectory to be swept away by sea level rise. Previous measures are no longer sufficient enough in light of more recent knowledge. The question is not if the Netherlands will disappear below sea level, but when https://www.uu.nl/en/news/the-question-is-not-if-the-netherlands-will-disappear-below-sea-level-but-when As sea levels rise, how long until…
Although climate change has been the cause of great concern for many years, we have now reached a tipping point. In a report released in 2018, the UN International Panel on Climate Change stated: “Large, immediate and unprecedented global efforts to mitigate greenhouse gasses are required.” Buildings such as residential houses account for more than 25% of…
A main takeaway lesson from how our society responses to the current coronavirus (COVID19) pandemic, is that fast actions to ‘flatten the curve’ (delay infections) is perhaps the single most important action in our global afford to combat a novel virus. There are many countries which managed to halt the exponential rise of new patients,…
Daniel Susskind from Balliol College, Oxford university, and the author of ‘A World Without Work’ writes in the Financial Times, ‘A cash payment made to everyone, with no strings attached, can support workers through the crisis.’ He goes on: The coronavirus crisis is a disaster for many workers. In the UK, for instance, we often…