by faster | Jul 30, 2021 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: July 30, 2021 SNIP: Greenland’s vast ice sheet is undergoing a surge in melting, with the amount of ice vanishing in a single day this week enough to cover the whole of Florida in two inches of water, researchers have found. The deluge of...
by faster | Jul 25, 2021 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: July 25, 2021 SNIP: In 1963, two years before I was born, Rachel Carson warned us in her book Silent Spring that we were doing terrible damage to our planet. She would weep to see how much worse it has become. Insect-rich wildlife habitats,...
by faster | Jul 21, 2021 | Blog
SOURCE: BBC DATE: July 21, 2021 SNIP: Twelve people have died after record-breaking rainfall flooded underground railway tunnels in China, leaving passengers trapped in rising waters. Video shared on social media shows evening commuters just managing to keep their...
by faster | Jul 21, 2021 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: July 21, 2021 SNIP: Not willing to rest their laurels on the theft of the future, the fossil fuel industry is now salting the earth with forever chemicals. In a bombshell exposé from Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) and the New...
by faster | Jul 16, 2021 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: July 16, 2021 SNIP: The intensity and scale of the floods in Germany this week have shocked climate scientists, who did not expect records to be broken this much, over such a wide area or this soon. After the deadly heatwave in the US and...
