It’s a dire warning , coming from a reputable environmental site aggregator that advocates strongly against industrialization in an effort to advance an era of ecological sustainability, and – were it simply the site issuing the warning – we might be able to ignore it. But the cautionary information also comes directly ... keep reading
Written by Jeanne Roberts in April, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Children and Families, Climate Change, Economics, Education, Finance & Money, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Politics & Government
In Normandy, France, a company makes a nutritional supplement called Plumpynut that offers the best hope for the world’s starving children. Invented in 1999 by French pediatric nutritional scientist Andre Briend, who is affiliated with the World Health Organization (WHO), and manufactured under the flagship French company Nutriset , which ... keep reading
Written by Jeanne Roberts in April, about Agriculture & Food, Children and Families, Economics, Food, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Politics & Government
Up until January, most of us hadn’t heard of the Arctic Oscillation, or AO, a pressure system at sea level over the Arctic that has its opposite number at higher latitudes, or about 37-47degrees North. Currently operating in negative phase, the AO is apparently responsible for the extreme cold ... keep reading
Written by Jeanne Roberts in February
There is plenty to worry about in today’s world, from climate change to species extinction through deforestation and the increasing absence of potable water, not to mention rising levels of infertility thanks to modern chemistry, the potential for a serious pandemic (as witness H1N1), and a financial recession that ... keep reading
Written by Jeanne Roberts in January, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Biofuels & Alternative Energy, Children and Families, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Economics, Environmental Disasters, Events, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Nuclear, Philosophy & Religion, Politics & Government
In the wake of news that multi-year ice covering the Arctic Ocean is, for all practical purposes, gone, the U.S. Navy has launched an assessment aimed at strengthening the nation’s position in terms of Arctic oil reserves. Vanishing Arctic Ocean ice, reliably documented by David Barber, Canada's ... keep reading
Written by Jeanne Roberts in December 2009, about Children and Families, Climate Change, Consumerism, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Economics, Education, Emissions, Environmental Disasters, Finance & Money, Health, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Politics & Government, Pollution, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans, Water, Weather
The International Organization for Migration , or IOM, in 2008 suggested that, by 2050, between 25 million and 1 billion people would be removed from their homes and lands by climate change. We’ve begun to hide this apocalyptic vision of the future by calling it “eco-migration”, but in fact migration ... keep reading
Written by Jeanne Roberts in October 2009, about Children and Families, Climate Change, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Economics, Environmental Disasters, Events, Finance & Money, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Media, Philosophy & Religion, Politics & Government, Population, Poverty & Development, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans, Travel, Weather
It’s not surprising that aviation, which is responsible for 3.5 percent of anthropogenic (man-made) climate change, has taken a nosedive during the current recession. People simply have less money and inclination to fly. Many environmental advocates are silently cheering this development, possibly backed by the International Panel on ... keep reading
Written by Jeanne Roberts in June 2009, about Air Quality, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Consumerism, Economics, Emissions, Environment & Wildlife, Finance & Money, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Politics & Government, Pollution, Population, Transport, Travel
Scientists and hydrologists tell us that the world is running out of water. This is true from Arizona and Bangladesh to Vietnam and Zimbabwe, because even though every drop of water on the planet remains in some form or other, much of it has been redistributed via global warming or ... keep reading
Written by Jeanne Roberts in June 2009, about Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Economics, Environment & Wildlife, Lifestyle & Behavior, Poverty & Development, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans, Water, Weather (2 comments)
In a paper released today in the journal Nature, a study conducted by H. Damon Matthews - a professor at Montreal's Concordia University's Department of Geography, Planning and the Environment - attempts to correlate global warming to carbon emissions. Matthews, along with fellow researchers Nathan P. Gillett, Peter A. Stott ... keep reading
Written by Jeanne Roberts in June 2009, about Carbon Sequestration, Climate Change, Emissions, Industry & Business, Politics & Government, Pollution
Preliminary reports from Norway's Arctic research station indicate that methane levels rose 0.6 percent in 2008. Methane, one of the gases implicated in climate change, accounts for about 18 to 20 percent of greenhouse gases, and contributes to nearly as much warming as all of the other non-CO2 ... keep reading
Written by Jeanne Roberts in June 2009, about Climate Change, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Emissions, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Pollution
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