Nature & Wildlife
Trees: Our Best Defense Against Climate Change
For decades, it’s been clear that the Earth’s climate is changing, and it’s almost universally agreed that humans have had a role in it.
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Nature & Wildlife
Clarifying the Confounding Words of Climate Change
Carbon neutral. Mitigation. Tipping point. Unprecedented transition. If asked, could you explicitly define the terms above, words that are often used in discussions about climate change? If not, you’re not alone.
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Nature & Wildlife
2017: Warm Fall, Cold Winter. It’s Still Climate Change.
Fall 2017 will officially come to a close in just about two weeks. It was probably one of the warmest falls that you can remember.
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Conservation
Science-Based Conservation under Attack in 2017
We’ve closed the books on 2016. It’s natural to want to assess the past year, now that we’ve made it through to the end.
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Nature & Wildlife
Silencing Science to Benefit Tourism
Earlier this year, the United Nations (UN), the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the Union of Concerned Scientists issued a report on climate change titled World Heritage and Tourism in a Changing Climate.
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News & More
Applauding Paris: Climate Change Conference 2015 Will Go On
Before the terrorist attacks that left more than 125 people dead and hundreds wounded in Paris on Friday, November 13, 2015, the city was set to host the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, starting on November 30, 2015.
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News & More
New Climate Study Advises Leaving Fossil Fuels in the Ground. But Will We?
At the most recent United Nations Climate Change Conference, held in Lima, Peru, in December 2014, more than 190 countries—including the United States—voluntarily agreed to limit carbon emissions in order to keep the world from warming another 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) by the end of this century.
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Nature & Wildlife
New UN Report on Climate Change: Only 50 PPM of Greenhouse Gases Now Stands between Us and Disaster
The United Nations’ report on climate change released on Sunday, November 2, 2014, predicted a gloomy future for the residents of planet Earth. It stated that the dangers of human-caused climate change are no longer debatable; they are real and are even now being felt all over the world.
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News & More
New Study Reports Antarctica Ice Sheet Instability, but Is It Unstoppable?
The more we travel, the more we understand the connectedness of every spot on the globe. But even if our travels are mostly virtual, today—in our rapidly shrinking world—we know there’s a reason to care about what’s happening in places we may never see for ourselves.
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Nature & Wildlife
Conservation Win for Whales in Antarctica
Good news for whales in Antarctica! On Monday, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) officially ruled that Japan must halt its annual whale hunt in Antarctica’s Southern Ocean. In a resounding 12-4 vote, The ICJ—the United Nations’ highest judicial body—determined that Japan’s JARPA II whaling program is really a commercial operation disguised as “scientific research.”