“Eleanor LeCain talks about strengthening your economic security for retirement with Cindy Hounsell, President of WISER, the Women’s Institute for a Secure Retirement.” Download this episode (right click and save)
As World Burns, Richest Nations Can’t Decide When to End Fossil Fuel Handouts
Despite ambitious pledges, global energy ministers could not agree on a target date to phase out billions in subsidies to dirty energy The world’s richest nations have failed to agree on a deadline to phase out fossil fuels subsidies—a commitment energy ministers made in 2009—stirring new fears over the impact of the hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars that go …
Chinese cave ‘graffiti’ tells a 500-year story of climate change and impact on society
An international team of researchers, including scientists from the University of Cambridge, has discovered unique ‘graffiti’ on the walls of a cave in central China, which describes the effects drought had on the local population over the past 500 years. The information contained in the inscriptions, combined with detailed chemical analysis of stalagmites in the cave, together paint an intriguing …