Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Exceedingly bad news from the Southern Ocean. A shift in winds caused by human activity (greenhouse gases and depletion of the ozone layer) is causing the Southern Ocean to release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere rather than absorb it. The loss of this natural carbon ’sink’ would be [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
It is a product of two interlocking realities of this new world of ours — globalization and global warming. West Nile Virus arrived in the US sometime around 1999 and spread quickly across the northeast and mid-Atlantic, then to the midwest and finally all the way to the West [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Found this disturbing story in the NY Times today by their science writer, Andrew Revkin. It’s about new satellite evidence that shows that the global melting that has been going on famously up in the Arctic is beginning to affect Antarctica as well.
NASA issued a press release about this [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
When I finally got to posting today, it was nearly bedtime. I’m tired, but wanted to do a quick perusing of the day’s ecological news. Its not good.
Here’s one – drought in China that is threatening water supplies for millions. More extreme weather is predicted in [...]