Here’s a scholarly article in Science Magazine that addresses the challenges our civilization faces in pulling CO2 out of the Earth’s atmosphere once greenhouse gases are released. It begins by admitting that we seem to be incapable of reducing current …
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Climate Change and the Urgency to Transform Food Systems
As discussed in this article from Science Magazine, our food systems and climate change have profound effects on each other. In particular, climate-driven desertification and droughts are destroying our arable land, and our abominable misuse of land and the systems …
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Dire Ecological Warning, But Will It Change Anything?
What happens when an expert group calls for transformative change, based on a documented decline of the natural world? That’s the subject of this article in Science Magazine. One million of the eight million total plant and animal species is …
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Studying the Rate of Ice Loss in Antarctica
For all you geologists who study the macro-effects of climate change, here’s a recent article from Science Magazine on the loss of ice in Western Antarctica.
How Much Do We Care About the Costs of Climate Change?
Here’s a scholarly article published a few days ago in Science Magazine on the cost of climate change, whose authors, from the Stanford School of Public Policy and the Nicholas Institute at Duke University, have taken into account a great …
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Climate Change Mitigation Is Going Forward—With or Without the U.S.
Here’s an important, if fairly general, article in Science Magazine written by (or for) U.S. President Barack Obama that offers good news: climate change mitigation is gaining strength and is, at this point, irreversible. The author makes the point that I’ve …
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Exactly, How Does Dead Soil Produce Unhealthy Food?
It’s common knowledge that drought, monoculture, overuse of chemical fertilizer and pesticides, and excessive plowing have created “dead soil” in which growing nutritious food crops is becoming increasing difficult. But exactly how?
Using Advanced DNA Testing To Understand Our Earth’s Changing Climate Conditions
Ever wonder exactly what happened after the last ice age? What whacked all those woolly mammoths, and gave rise to our modern-day large herbivores? In particular, what were the consequences of a warming planet, and what can we learn that …
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What’s So Cool About Biodiversity?
Ever wonder why biodiversity is so important to human civilization? One reason is that the vast majority of the cures we’re developing for our wide range of diseases comes from various species of life forms, and thus mass extinction of …
