by faster | Dec 14, 2021 | Blog
DATE: December 14, 2021 SOURCE: Science It’s almost a mantra in climate science: The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world. But that figure, found in scientific studies, advocacy reports, the popular press, and even the 2021 U.N. climate assessment,...
by faster | Aug 19, 2021 | Blog
SOURCE: CNN DATE: August 19, 2021 SNIP: For the first time on record, precipitation on Saturday at the summit of Greenland — roughly two miles above sea level — fell as rain and not snow. Temperatures at the Greenland summit over the weekend rose above freezing for...
by faster | Aug 13, 2021 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: August 13, 2021 SNIP: At the peak of the whaling industry, in the late 1800s, North Atlantic right whales were slaughtered in their thousands. With each carcass hauled on to the deck, whalers were taking more than just bones and flesh out of...
by faster | Aug 12, 2021 | Blog
SOURCE: New York Times DATE: August 12, 2021 SNIP: It is seen by many as the clean energy of the future. Billions of dollars from the bipartisan infrastructure bill have been teed up to fund it. But a new peer-reviewed study on the climate effects of hydrogen, the...
by faster | Aug 3, 2021 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: August 3, 2021 SNIP: With climate change threatening the sea ice habitat of Emperor penguins, the US Fish and Wildlife Service today announced a proposal to list the species as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. “The...
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...
