Educational magazine on topical environmental concerns.
The Seaweed Piling Up on Caribbean Beaches Is Here to Stay
The Atlantic - Ed Yong
Since 2011, blooms of Sargassum have wreaked havoc on tropical shores. A new study explains why this is likely a new normal. In 2018, as seaweed piled up on beaches throughout the Caribbean, it began rot.
Adding 1 billion hectares of forest could help check global warming
sciencemag.org - Alex Fox
Global temperatures could rise 1.5° C above industrial levels by as early as 2030 if current trends continue, but trees could help stem this climate …
UK waste firm exported 'offensive' materials including used nappies
The Guardian - Sandra Laville
One of the UK's biggest waste firms has been convicted of sending used nappies and other contaminated materials to China illegally. Biffa Waste Services Ltd was found guilty of exporting unsorted household
Chennai, India, is almost out of water. Satellite images show its nearly bone-dry reservoirs
CNN - By Paul P. Murphy and Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN
(CNN) — Very little rain, recent scorching temperatures and a late monsoon season are being blamed for the water shortage in India's sixth-largest city, with nearly 5 million residents. Chennai's water
Scientists amazed as Canadian permafrost thaws 70 years early
Reuters - Matthew Green
LONDON (Reuters) - Permafrost at outposts in the Canadian Arctic is thawing 70 years earlier than predicted, an expedition has discovered, in the latest sign that the global climate crisis is accelerating
'Photosynthesis could heal': why agriculture should be driven by environmentalists
The Guardian - Patrice Newell
The juggernaut of globalisation has been inescapable for Australian agriculture. From the start, merino wool was a major export earner, and it still is. Australia has 70 million sheep and wool reaches
Alaskans find more dead seals along warming Arctic Sea
Reuters - By Yereth Rosen
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - At least 60 dead seals have been discovered along beaches of the Bering Sea and Chukchi Sea in northwestern Alaska, and scientists are trying to determine what caused their
India's Kerala state tweaks law to take over abused elephants
Quartz - Sangeeta Tanwar
Kerala is finally coming to the rescue of its abused and tormented captive elephants. The southern coastal state, home to around a fifth of these 2,454 domesticated pachyderms in India, will take their
India Heat Wave, Soaring Up to 123 Degrees, Has Killed at Least 36
The New York Times - By MUJIB MASHAL
NEW DELHI — One of India's longest and most intense heat waves in decades, with temperatures reaching 123 degrees, has claimed at least 36 lives since it began in May, and the government has warned that
Massive 8,000-mile 'dead zone' could be one of the gulf's largest
National Geographic - Sarah Gibbens
Record-breaking Midwest rainfall washed tons of fertilizer and sewage water out to sea, contributing to a devastatingly large patch of polluted water, scientists say. Just off the coast of Louisiana and
The Australian Greens
"That is one of the reasons why not a single global financial institution, after doing the financial analysis, would put any money up for the Adani …
'This is scary': Truly alarming graph
news.com.au - Andrew Backhouse
An alarming rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels has been revealed, showing the world is edging closer to triggering "catastrophic and …
New Report Suggests 'High Likelihood of Human Civilization Coming to an End' Starting in 2050
VICE - Nafeez Ahmed
The climate change analysis was written by a former fossil fuel executive and backed by the former chief of Australia's military. A harrowing scenario analysis of how human civilization might collapse
This Town Was Drowning in Plastic. Now It's a Model of Sustainability.
globalcitizen.org - By Joe McCarthy and Erica Sanchez
The town operates like plastic is a thing of the past. Plastic pollution is causing immense harm to the world's ecosystems and governments around the …
U.S. biologists probe deaths of 70 emaciated gray whales
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - U.S. government biologists have launched a special investigation into the deaths of at least 70 gray whales washed ashore in recent months along the U.S. West Coast, from
The Trump admin really, really doesn't want you to see this climate science
Mashable - Mark Kaufman
The same scientific agencies that rocketed Neil Armstrong to the moon and forecast the landfall of hurricanes that pummel the U.S. coast also expect dramatic changes to Earth's climate this century, should
Hundreds of Puffins Washed Up Dead on an Alaskan Beach
This latest mass-mortality event is another sign of the Arctic's rapidly changing climate. Lauren Divine first heard that the birds were dying on October 13, 2016, when one of her colleagues stumbled the
Climate Change Is Bringing Epic Flooding to the Midwest
WIRED - Wired
Fierce storms lashed across the central US this week, unleashing hundreds of powerful tornadoes that carved a path of destruction through parts of …
The LastSwab offers a reusable alternative to those polluting disposable earbuds
yankodesign.com - By Sarang Sheth
Single-use plastics are public enemy number 1 right now, and it's high time they made an exit from our lives. A photo went viral sometime in the past …
A vision of 2040: everything we need for a sustainable world already exists
The Guardian - Damon Gameau
When my daughter was two years old, I found myself struggling to finish any article relating to the dire state of our environment. I would get halfway through the piece, then disengage and move on to else.
China has been emitting illegal greenhouse gas that destroys ozone layer, scientists find
CNBC - Yen Nee Lee
The latest study also confirmed media and activist reports that China could be behind the emissions. "Several considerations suggest that the increase …
Sea level rise could be much larger than expected
bbc.co.uk - By Matt McGrath
Scientists believe that global sea levels could rise far more than predicted, due to accelerating melting in Greenland and Antarctica.
Remarkable photograph of eagle carrying a helpless lamb sparks fear among farmers
The Telegraph - By Bill Gardner
It is a rare and remarkable image: an eagle soaring in the air with a helpless lamb dangling from its talons. Soon though, according to fearful farmers, it could be a common sight. This amateur photograph,
Re-freezing ice caps by spraying seawater into the clouds to be investigated by Cambridge University
The Telegraph - By Henry Bodkin
Cambridge University is to launch an institute which will investigate re-freezing the polar ice-caps by spraying seawater into the clouds. The new Centre for Climate Repair is to research radical measures
Fearless TV weather forecasters air the planet's soaring carbon levels
Mike Nelson's weather forecasts on May 7, 2019 included more than powerful storm fronts, thick fog, and flurries of snow. The veteran meteorologist's Denver television broadcasts, delivered three times
Two-thirds of the world's longest rivers no longer run free
sciencemag.org - Elizabeth Pennisi
About two-thirds of the world's longest rivers are no longer free flowing, compromising their ability to move sediment, facilitate fish migration, …
Children Change Their Parents' Minds about Climate Change
scientificamerican.com - Lydia Denworth
Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg became famous this spring for launching a student movement to compel adults to take action on climate change. Instead …
Bengal Tigers May Not Survive Climate Change
The New York Times - By KAI SCHULTZ and HARI KUMAR
NEW DELHI — Climate change and rising sea levels eventually may wipe out one of the world's last and largest tiger strongholds, scientists warned in a new study. The cats are among nearly 500,000 land
Arctic permafrost is melting so fast it's damaging the equipment scientists use to measure it
CNN - By Doug Criss, CNN
(CNN) — In the Arctic, a changing climate isn't something that might happen in the near future. In the uppermost stretches of the Northern Hemisphere, it's already happening now. And a new study says is