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What do Canadians love more: Hockey or oil?
photo by Velcrow Ripper (EvolveLove on Flickr CC) Canada is famous for ice hockey. That, maple syrup and being a nicer, cleaner version of the United States. But real, traditional ice hockey, played...
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SimCity Reboot Includes Climate Change
By Andrew Freedman SimCity, the iconic strategy game that gave rise to a generation of “Sims” games, is getting a 21st century makeover. With the real cities of the world increasingly on the front...
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If We’re Altering Rain, Hail, Any Doubts Left on Climate?
By Andrew Freedman COMMENTARY One of the biggest hurdles to overcome when communicating climate science is the resistance many have to accepting the notion that human activities are capable of altering...
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Now You Sea It, Now You Don’t: Watch Arctic Sea Ice Melt
Image Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio One of the most striking changes that has taken place in the Arctic since the start of satellite monitoring in 1979 is the...
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The Great Tweet Forward? Climate concern highest among youth in China
photo by 350.org (Flickr CC) Will the youth of China and Brazil lead the way in the new environmental ‘Great Leap Forward’ while British and American young people languish in egomaniacal tweets and...
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What the Hail is going on?
By Andrew Freedman Severe thunderstorm season is upon us, with the array of threats it brings, from tornadoes to flash flooding. On Tuesday, tornadoes grabbed most of the headlines, as several strong...
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Extreme Weather and Climate Change: The Public Gets It
By Michael D. Lemonick For years, we who communicate about climate change have been wringing our hands over how to make people understand the problem at a gut level. Endangered polar bears? Too far...
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The Bad News Continues to Flow About Antarctica’s Ice
By Michael D. Lemonick It’s just two weeks since a paper in Nature flagged an ominous thinning of ice shelves along parts of the Antarctic coast lying due south of the Pacific Ocean. The ice appears to...
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Scientists equate extreme weather with climate change
photo by U.S. Air Force Photo by: Master Sgt. Jeremy Lock The recent heat waves and extreme storms in the eastern United States, the numerous wildfires in Colorado and other Western states, flooding...
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Climate change blues
Picture credit: Brendan Cox / Oxfam Remember climate change? Yeah, it didn’t go away. In fact it’s worse than ever. However, the media (and therefore the public) have largely lost interest. No more...
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Climate change: Rushing towards disaster
Climate change and associated environmental destruction may be the ultimate failure of capitalism. The nature of capitalism – whether state-run, state assisted or “pure” – is at its core unsustainable....
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Russell Brand on revolution (and the environment)
A new study claims that investing in measures to affect climate change is unpopular because the results are too far off in the future. In other words, if only future generations will benefit from our...
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Climate change and Typhoon Haiyan
As the Philippines grieves, counts its dead and starts the long task of rebuilding, one of the questions looming in the air is whether man made climate change played a role in Typhoon Haiyan (aka...
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Central Europe must prepare for regular extreme floods in the future
By the middle of the century, extreme floods similar to the one that happened last year might occur every ten years on the Danube — according to a fresh study. In June 2013, several tens of thousands...
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Apparently we care about climate change
On 3rd March Eurobarometer published the results of an extensive survey looking at the attitudes of citizens of the European Union towards climate change and environmental policies. These polls are...
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Is pollution new to Paris?
Fresh examination of a 19th century study of atmospheric potential gradient at the surface in the city centre and at the top of the Eiffel Tower suggests there were already problems in Paris in 1893,...
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San people and their culture: Written in DNA and sand
The San people have been in South Africa since time forgotten. Perhaps they survive because they leave only footprints behind, and bones buried beneath stones. When they die, they become shooting stars...
View ArticleEnvironment and Greece: We change or we perish
A major annual environmental day started 44 years ago on the 22nd of April, 1970. Four decades after the first celebration of Earth Day, the Greek people are not the best “hosts” of this party of life....
View ArticleEven Europe isn’t spared from melting glaciers!
In recent years what has been consistently interesting and often alarming news is the continuing melting of glaciers. Researchers who study glaciers have found that the melting of the glaciers in the...
View ArticleBelgium: Aquifers threatened by growing urbanisation
Aquifers supply more than 70% of water needs in certain regions of Belgium, but they are threatened by the impacts of growing urbanisation and climate change. The Belgian Committee of Hydrogeologists...
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