Monthly Archives: January 2016

The mosquito-borne disease shows that pushing the limits of the planet’s ecology has become dangerous in novel ways Source: The Zika virus foreshadows our dystopian climate future | Bill McKibben | Opinion | The Guardian

A rapid and affordable transformation to wind and solar energy within 15 years is possible in the U.S., according to a new study by NOAA and University of Colorado Boulder researchers published in the journal Nature Climate Change. This energy … Continue reading →

Source: GRAIN — Foreign pension funds and land grabbing in Brazil

The issue can be overwhelming. The science is complicated. We get it. This is your cheat sheet. Source: Short Answers to Hard Questions About Climate Change – The New York Times

Source: Faith, Morality and the Environment | Yale Project on Climate Change Communication

The bulk of the record-setting heat, NASA and NOAA say, is from long-term planetary warming caused by human emissions of greenhouse gases. Source: 2015 Was Hottest Year in Recorded History, Scientists Say – The New York Times

Source: There is something odd and ominous afoot in Greenland. Did a huge melt water pulse occur 1-16-16?

New study provides one of the strongest cases yet that the planet has entered a new geological epoch Source: Human impact has pushed Earth into the Anthropocene, scientists say

Mexican scientists are striving to plant oyamel fir trees at higher altitudes in an effort to save the species, as well as its fluttering iconic winter visitor — the migrating monarch butterfly — from the devastating effects of climate change.