Hanukkah is over, Christmas is right around the corner, and the calendar is about to flip a digit to bring us into 2019. Which means it’s time for Sierra magazine’s annual roundup of the most important environmental stories of the past year.
“Most important” doesn’t necessarily mean...
A new survey finds that the region has contributed almost an inch to rising seas since 1971.
By Chris Mooney
A new scientific survey has found that the glaciers of the Arctic are the world’s biggest contributors to rising seas, shedding ice at an accelerating rate that now adds well over...
I was recently asked to speak about climate change communication at a large gathering of geoscientists. How do we change minds and move beyond political polarization? I know what doesn’t work: more data. Think of your average member of the general public as Reviewer 2: he’s made up his mind, he’s co...
At 97,620 acres, the Woolsey Fire is now among the largest wildfires to have ever swept through the LA area.
It is the “largest fire on record,” Los Angeles County Fire Chief Daryl Osby said Tuesday, pointing out that the blaze is now roughly the size of Denver.
In terms of size, the Woolsey ...
The Trump administration's top environmental official for the Southeast was arrested Thursday on criminal ethics charges in Alabama reported to be related to a scheme to help a coal company avoid paying for a costly toxic waste cleanup.
Trey Glenn, 47, was briefly booked into a county jail in Birmi...
The Open Forum
Letters to the Editor
Jim Miller, Arvada
Prop 112 effort sends clear message to legislators
Re: “Drilling setbacks fall short,” Nov. 7 news story
Wake up politicians! Your constituents care about the environment.
We are horrified by what the world’s leading scientists an...
BY ADELE PETERS4 MINUTE READ Fast Company
In the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the massive Ocean Cleanup device is currently beginning its first attempt to fish plastic trash out of the sea. It’s a difficult challenge, but the systemic challenge is significantly larger: Every minute, the equiv...
More protection: U.N. says Earth’s ozone layer is healing
“I don’t think we can do a victory lap until 2060,” one scientist warns. By SETH BORENSTEIN | The Associated Press
November 5, 2018 at 11:13 pm WASHINGTON — Earth’s protective ozone layer is finally healing from damage caused by a...
The Denver Post, 11-7-18 Hey, take a gander at your kitchen wastebasket and see all the
money in there.
Statistics come in from several directions to show how much food we regularly waste
(closer-to-the-truth verbs would be “toss” or “throw out”).
In 2015, the last year for which it offe...
Today is the day you get to do a powerful thing, use your vote to support candidates at all levels who support
clean energy, recycling, public transport, preservation of wild spaces and open spaces, clean water.
Do this now if you have not, people rising is a main action that will lead...
Shared from the 11/1/2018 The Denver Post eEdition
ENVIRONMENT
Study: Heat buildup in oceans
startling
By Chris Mooney and Brady DennisThe Washington PostThe world’s oceans have been soaking up far more excess heat
in recent decades than scientists realized, suggestin...
Shared from the 10/25/2018 The Denver Post eEdition
EUROPEAN COUNCIL SUPPORTS BANS ON SINGLE-USE PLASTICS
— The Associated Press
BRUSSELS » The European Parliament has overwhelmingly backed a wide-ranging ban on single-use plastics to counter pollution in seas, fields and waterways.
...
Shared from the 10/25/2018 The Denver Post eEdition
NEW YORK SUES OIL GIANT, SAYING IT MISLED INVESTORS
NEW YORK » New York’s attorney general on Wednesday sued Exxon Mobil, saying the Texas energy giant has misled investors about the risks that climate change poses to its operations.
The la...
20,000 Years of Duck Decoys
Hugh Lavery, John Byers
’20,000 Years of Duck Decoys: A Reference Guide to Australian Decoys’ is a comprehensive guide to collectors – and conservationists – who wish to broaden their horizon significantly. The more than 450 colour illustrations reflect a ...
By Emma Loewe
This year's extreme storms have further damaged coral reefs—an ecosystem that was in bad shape to begin with. Corals thrive in warm, tropical waters, and even slight shifts in temperature and acidity can throw them off. Though warming oceans have threatened their livelihood for years,...
Killer whales in the South Atlantic Ocean are willing to dive more than a thousand feet more than previously recorded—if they are certain to get a snack at the end of it, researchers have discovered. And the best way to guarantee food is to steal it.
BC-based marine researcher Jared Towers witnesse...
Annan, a climate scientist and director of the Blue Skies Research Organization, has won numerous bets over the last decade against scientists from a variety of academic backgrounds.
In short, people keep betting him that the world will cool or warm slightly, rather than c...
Sustainability author, L. Hunter Lovins, newest publication debuted October 9th, 2018. This book presents a blueprint for how you can help create a regenerative economy, one that delivers shared prosperity on a healthy planet. Hunter is an Advisor to http://www.earthprotect.tv and her nonprofit...
Published on Oct 9, 2018
SUBSCRIBE 421K
https://democracynow.org - A new report from the United Nations’ climate panel warns humanity has only a dozen years to mitigate global warming and limit the scope of global catastrophe. Otherwise, millions will be imperiled by increasing droughts, floo...
Shared from the 10/13/2018 The Denver Post eEdition
Editorial
If steps aren’t taken soon to combat
climate change, there may be no tomorrow
This editorial was written by The Washington Post.
If anything, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has a
habit of understateme...
