Image of the Day: Pink Flamingos Don’t Party Over Climate
Climate change could spell trouble for wading birds such as flamingos that depend on shallow coastal wetlands for food. As sea level rises, wetlands will have to adapt, migrating inland or to higher elevations. But if sea level rises too quickly, the wetlands will drown, eliminating a crucial environment that supports thousands of species and … Read More
Image of the Day: This Gecko Won’t Hold His Tongue
Photographer Isak Pretorius spent several days following gecko tracks in Namibia to capture a gecko licking the morning dew off its eyeball says the Telegraph in a review of the cutest animal pics of 2011. But though it likely brings smile to your face like it did for us, it also brings up a sad topic. According to NPR, many local lizard population… Read More
Image of the Day: Freshwater Woes for Scenic Malta
Malta is a country known to expereince the characteristic Mediterranean climate of damp, cool winters and hot, dry summers. But according to the climate change forecast maps published by the European Environmental Agency earlier this year, that characteristic summer climate may become a lot longer, hotter and drier. As reported by the Times of Malt… Read More
Image of the Day: An Amur Tiger Cub, Safe for Now
A female Amur tiger licks her cub at the Royev Ruchey zoo in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. The Amur tiger is the largest cat in the world, reports the Huffington Post, and until the early 20th Century, when habitat loss from human invasion and poaching drove the cats to near extinction, they lived across China, Korea, and Russia. But the … Read More
Image of the Day: A Turtle’s Reaction to Climate Change
When most of us think of sea turtles and the human-related threats they face, entanglement in fishing gear often comes to mind. And though that may be one of the larger threats the endangered species face, climate change is another that research shows should not be ignored. The reason for this, says Environment News Service (ENS), is temperature… Read More
Maya Lin’s ‘Last Memorial’ Honors ‘What is Missing’
Maya Lin is best known for the stunningly moving, but astoundingly simple Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C., that she designed while she was still in college in 1981. Now she has created another poignant memorial, albeit this time it is not honoring lives lost in wartime, but rather it’s attempting to honor the natural world, which is … Read More
Six Images You Need to See to Understand the Drought
This drought developed due to a pronounced lack of rainfall, coupled with several unusual heat waves that struck during the spring and summer and helped to rapidly intensify the drought conditions. As you can see from this arresting image of the Morse Reservoir in Indiana (H/T @Mikeseidel), rainfall has not exactly kept pace with evaporation driven… Read More
Image of the Day: For This Forest, It’s Easy Being Green
The Iwokrama forest in Guyana is protected by the Conservation Trust Fund, which provides funds for managing the country’s intact protected tropical rainforests that are mostly untouched by humans. This is the first of its kind in Guyana. Having an ecosystem untouched by humans and industrial progress is a good thing for the climate. Deforestation … Read More
