As did the Dodo, so shall we go-go
This video is not available on YouTube. Follow the link below to the dw.com website to view: https://www.dw.com/en/the-wealth-of-biodiversity/av-50069217 Peru’s Manu National Park is an unparalleled hotspot of biodiversity, which is why UNESCO declared the area a World Heritage Site
Amid the hottest month in recorded history, some records still stand out as absolutely jaw dropping. That’s definitely true of a measurement made in the Arctic this July. According to data released in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA)
The announcement that 11 billion tons dropped off the Greenland Ice Sheet in one day turned out to be a made-for-television example of the effects of climate change. Dramatic videos of water pouring off the glaciers went viral. But apart from
The most rapidly changing state in the U.S. has no sea ice within some 150 miles of its shores, according to high-resolution sea ice analysis from the National Weather Service. The big picture is clear: After an Arctic summer with well above-average
In 1978, the United States finally banned the dangerous pesticide DDT. Other nations soon followed, but after three decades of use, the damage had been done. The molecules didn’t just vanish into the air: Many traveled and were trapped in glaciers,
The Gulf Stream is a powerful current of warm water running through the Atlantic Ocean. Starting in the Gulf of Mexico, the current travels around the Florida peninsula and accelerates up the East Coast of the United States and
Cindy Holleman of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization says climate change, conflict, and economic stagnation are increasing hunger.
Climate scientist Michael Mann discusses the increasing frequency and severity of heat waves, just as the US, Europe, and India are experiencing this Summer
Europe’s historic heat wave is heading north this weekend, to the relief of the continent, but its path will send it right towards the Arctic — where it could speed up the melting of sea ice and coincide with
MIT scientist Daniel Rothman explains that the Earth’s oceans may be at the ‘precipice of excitation’ due to carbon in the oceans, which would unleash a mass extinction of life.
In just 30 years, one city in five will find themselves “in a climatic regime that does not currently exist on the planet today.”
Acidification is proceeding extremely fast today, in what is a human-caused sixth mass extinction. Some of the rapidly rising carbon dioxide in our atmosphere reacts with water forming carbonic acid, dissociating to bicarbonate ions, then carbonate ions, making the oceans much more acidic.