Image of the Day: Islands Monitored for Climate Change
Scientists have selected about 30 islands in the Mediterranean, including Port-Cros National Park in France, as biodiversity hotspots and locations for climate change monitoring work. France's Coastal Conservation Agency is behind the project that calls for monitoring the islands for between five to 20 years.… Read More
Image of the Day: Mexico Passes Climate Change Law
As Mexico’s Popocatepetl volcano is spewing ash and greenhouse gases into the air, the legislature passed a law that will reduce carbon emissions by 30 percent below usual levels by 2020, and 50 percent below 2000 levels by 2050, according to Nature. … Read More
Image of the Day: Hydropower Critics Say Damn the Dam
And while supporters say hydropower is the country’s best clean-energy option, the reservoirs have high CO2 and methane emissions. Methane emissions have a warming effect that is 25 times stronger than CO2. The survival of the Amazon rainforest is threatened by deforestation and climate change, which could kill trees and then created feedback loops… Read More
42 Years Later, Do We Suffer Green Fatigue on Earth Day?
I don’t remember all that much about the very first Earth Day, which happened 42 years ago, on April 22, 1970. I was a junior in high school at the time, and my youthful outrage, such as it was, was focused more on ending the Vietnam War than on saving the environment. Just 10 days later, Richard Nixon would push the Vietnam protests over the top … Read More
Image of the Day: Tarantula Nebula’s Starry Web
The Tarantula Nebula, a.k.a. 30 Doradus, a vast cloud of gas and dust about 950 quadrillion miles from Earth. At its core lies a dense clot of about half a million hot young stars, many of them newly born from the gas cloud. … Read More
Image of the Day: It’s a Jungle out There
A crocodile and turtle face off at the Cano Negro Wildlife Reserve in Costa Rica. Twenty-five percent of the country’s land been turned into protected reserves and parks to protect the animals and habitats from deforestation. … Read More
Image of the Day: Moss May Explain Earth’s Mini Ice Ages
According to researchers, the invasion of the land by primitive moss-like plants was a pivotal time in our history.… Read More
New Study Casts Doubt on “Missing Heat” Hypothesis
Have you heard the tale about the “missing heatĀ in the climate system? Well, it turns out it may not have gone missing after all. Global warming is driven by an imbalance between how much energy the planet takes in from the sun, and how much it lets back out into space in the form of thermal radiation.… Read More
