Salt Marshes: Your Life and Your Way of Life May Depend on Them
If you live near the sea, chances are your life, home, and/or way of life have already been saved at least once by salt marshes that protect against coastal…
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Climate Disruption & Solutions
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Climate disruption is real. Whether you call it “climate change” or “global warming,” we share articles calling attention to the damage caused by factors like rising greenhouse gasses and also share articles highlighting creative solutions for a post-petroleum world.
A Little Community Food Cupboard with a Big Impact
The community food cupboard in this image may seem small, but for one person or family, it could make a huge difference in getting through the day as…
Here Is One Way To Feel Better About What’s Going On In Our Mad and Scary World
One of my favorite environmental activists is also one of my favorite philosophers: Joanna Macy is an ecophilosopher. She has written over a dozen books and travels extensively to share…
What’s a Citizen Scientist and How Can You Become One?
Do you have a passion for the environment, but work in a totally different field and wish you could somehow still contribute to better understanding of issues like climate change…
Ghost Forests: Sad Legacies of Climate Change
Forests are in the fight of the century. Covering almost 30% of the earth, forests provide a home to 80% of life on land, including plants, animals, and insects.1 Millions…
COVID-19 Impact on Crop Pollination: “It’s a bit of a different sort of disaster than normal.”
As the COVID-19 crisis continues to unfold, farmers whose crops rely on the pollination services of beekeepers are worried. The coronavirus pandemic has taken hold at a time of the…
The Real Consequences of Climate Change on Our Health
Heart attacks, miscarriages, encephalitis, pneumonia… Some dedicated researchers are working hard to tie actual health outcomes to climate change events which are expected to only worsen and intensify if policy…
Helping Nemo Find Home: How Underwater “Coral” Concerts Restore Fish Populations to Dying Reefs!
Some exciting research was published in late 2019 by a team of researchers from the UK and Australia looking at how to repopulate damaged coral reefs.1 You might have seen…
Tech Company Makes Water from Thin Air: A Desperately Needed Solution for Drought and Disaster Relief
Water. It seems to be everywhere…until it’s not. While about 71% of the earth’s surface is covered in water,1 30% of our planet’s population live in dry areas. That means…
Hurricane’s Invisible Victims: NASA Reminds Us of the Toll Polluted Rivers Have on the Ocean
The National Weather Service estimated that Hurricane Florence dumped almost 8 trillion gallons of rain on North Carolina in September 2018 resulting in catastrophic flooding across the state. 1 A…
