The atmosphere is to the earth as a layer of varnish is to a desktop globe. It is thin, fragile and essential for preserving the items on the surface.150 years of burning fossil fuel have overloaded the atmosphere to the point where the earth is ill. It now has a fever. Read the detailed article, Soothing Gaia’s Fever for an evocative account of that analogy. The items listed here detail progress on coordinating 6.5 billion people in the most critical project undertaken by humanity.Â
Huge forest fires raging in the Amazonian rainforest are threatening to wipe out the Awa tribe, one of the last uncontacted indigenous groups on Earth. The neighbouring Guajajara Guardians have been fighting to protect the Awa tribe from violence by loggers, disease and land clearing. Despite promises by the Brazilian government to assist, the Guardians Continue Reading →
Research released this week reveals that massive blobs of hot water have moved around the Pacific Ocean, since 2011, killing marine ecosystems in their wake. Last year, thousands of seals, whales and starfish died on the West Coast of North America, due to the disruption of ecosystems as the result of warm water. This year Continue Reading →
The massive floods in Louisiana that killed five people and made 20,000 homeless last week contained as much water as generally flows out of the Mississippi in three years. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the USA will this week declare the floods as a one in five hundred year event. This is the Continue Reading →
Climate chaos may provide further economic advantage to Europe, Science Daily reports this week. Evocatively described as the heartbeat of the planet, the Gulf Stream is an integral part of the world’s ocean currents and keeps the North West Coast of Europe, especially Great Britain, much warmer than its latitude would indicate. In previous global Continue Reading →
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