The Ultimate Guide to Planning a Community Cleanup Event
Mastering the Art of Community Cleanup Coordination Community cleanup events unite people for one common goal — helping the environment and enhancing our communities. This causes community and identity to develop and plays an essential part in the efforts of the local environmentalists. Whether you belong to a local community group, a nonprofit organization, or […]
NWS Has Added a ‘Destructive’ Alert Level to the SMS Warning System!
If Hurricane Ida made one thing clear, it’s that we should all expect the unexpected when it comes to Mother Nature’s fury! With a damage bill exceeding $50 billion, 97 confirmed deaths and a sustained wind speed of 150mph, it may be a stark warning about the future. Rather prophetically, the National Weather Service started […]
No More Live Music? — Coldplay Won’t Go On Tour Unless Shows Are Carbon Neutral
British rock band and worldwide phenomenon Coldplay announced last November that they won’t go on tour for their new album Everyday Life to avoid the enormous carbon footprint it would produce. Touring is a big source of revenue for musicians but with all of the cross-country flights, tour buses, housing the musicians and staff, electricity […]
Sand Mining: Why is Asia begging for another environmental crisis?
The world currently uses nearly 50 billion tons of sand and gravel a year. That is almost twice as much as a decade ago. Will the environment survive our addiction to the stuff?
Climate Change Is Making Spiders More Aggressive, Say Scientists
The trend was consistent across multiple storms that varied in size, duration, and intensity. This suggests that the effects on the colonies are part of a robust evolutionary response, says Pruitt.
There’s a floating patch of garbage out there… and you’re probably eating it!
What do 745 blue whales, 12,219 Tyrannosaurus Rexes, and 20,853 hippopotamuses have in common? They weigh the same as the amount of visible (remember that word) plastic garbage floating in the North Pacific Ocean right now. Now try to wrap your head around that information. To say that it’s massive would be a terrible, terrible […]
We’re driving ourselves to extinction!
It has been a contentious subject, but anthropogenic extinction is now a science based reality. “We are sawing off the limb that we are sitting on,” according to renown author and scientist, Paul Ehrlich. Winner of the Nobel equivalent, Crafoord Prize, Bing Professor of Population Studies in biology and a senior fellow at the Stanford […]
