Vacation: Water Wishing
The big Horse Creek fire this week in the Jackson, Wyoming area is, thankfully, under control. The Snake River, where …
Category Archives: Environment
Killer Rain: Killer No Rain
As the climatologists have pointed out, the effects of climate change will not be uniform. No nice 1 degree rise …
Climate Change and Storms
Like the title says: a book about the scientific understanding of climate change and its relation to hurricanes (cyclones, typhoons). …
Climate Counts
Climate Counts. Org has a scorecard project under way that will interest you all. It aims to rate select consumer …
Chicken Feathers and CO2
You gotta love those scientists — curiosity that never says die. Gotta a CO2 problem? Got too much garbage? Let’s …
West Artic Ice Melt and Your Future
James Hansen, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, has been one of the principal, scientifically grounded, voices warning …
Arctic Species Adaptability
Interesting short article on plant adaptability during shifting climactic conditions in the arctic. Many Arctic plant species have readily adjusted …
Science by Citizen
The Audubon Society released a report today that has gotten some press attention: the severe decline in many bird species …
Climate Talk
It used to be that the weather news was a 2 minute snippet near the end of the local news …
Penguins Disappearing
Count me among those who didn’t know South Africa has long been host to a species of penguin — fast …
Earthweek
One of the enjoyable habits of Saturday mornings is to turn to Earthweek, a colored map of the Earth with …
Global Warming and Marin
Very interesting piece in the Marin IJ by Mark Prado. “A devastating flood sweeps through the Ross Valley on New …