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I was poised to write a piece on the linkage between present-day veneration of duplicitous political elites and the crisis of national identity when I…
HOUSTON - (Dec. 15, 2016) - Rapid population decline among vertebrate species began at the end of the 19th century when industrialization was at its…
Alan Singer at the Huffington Post writes about the Trump Team Revives McCarthyism in War on the Environment.  Singer writes, “Climate change deniers argue that…
Mere months after atmospheric carbon dioxide permanently surpassed a symbolic threshold of 400 parts per million, scientists have more bad news: emissions of methane, a…
LONDON, 13 December, 2016 – Scientists have calculated the mass of that unnatural achievement called the “technosphere”, demonstrating the scale of human activity that drives…
Global concentrations of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas and cause of climate change, are now growing faster in the atmosphere than at any other time…
MANHATTAN, KANSAS -- Soil, an important part of the carbon cycle, might compound the world's carbon dioxide problem, according to a global study involving Kansas…
This is all part of Finland's ambitious target of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80 percent by 2050. "Giving up coal is the…
Climate change—and resultant natural disasters, droughts, and sea level rise—"could lead to a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions," senior military figures told the Guardian on…
The Great Barrier Reef suffered through the worst coral die-off in recorded history this year, scientists found, with unusually warm ocean water and record-setting bleaching eventskilling…
Vancouver prides itself on being a coastal city, nestled between the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific. Like every other part of the world, it’s under…
San Diego is renowned for its great beaches, stellar food, and conscious populace, but it will soon be recognized for something even greater… According to…