Storm threatens Midwest with heavy snow, travel disruptions
Two people hold hands while walking south on Madison Street toward 27th Avenue in Bellevue, Neb., during a winter storm warning on Monday, Jan. 25, 2021. (Chris Machian/Omaha World-Herald via AP) A major winter storm is threatening to blanket parts of the middle of the country with more than a foot of snow Monday, promising […]
Increasing ocean temperature threatens Greenland’s ice sheet — ScienceDaily
Scientists at the University of California, Irvine and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have for the first time quantified how warming coastal waters are impacting individual glaciers in Greenland’s fjords. Their work is the subject of a study published recently in Science Advances. Working under the auspices of the Oceans Melting Greenland mission for the past […]
Out-of-control Australian bushfire threatens Perth homes
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Australian firefighters said they expect to battle an out-of-control bushfire well into the night on Saturday, as the blaze threatens lives and homes in the west coast city of Perth. Residents were told “to act immediately to survive” as the flames approached homes near Oakford, about 35 kilometres (22 miles) south […]
Clearing land to feed 2050’s human population threatens biodiversity
Humankind’s growing need for food is running up against thousands of other species’ need for space. By 2050, humans may need to clear an additional 3.35 million square kilometers of land for agriculture. Converting these largely natural habitats, collectively about the size of India, would squeeze more than 17,000 vertebrate species from some of their […]
Ghost fishing threatens endangered river dolphins, critically endangered turtles, otters — ScienceDaily
Waste fishing gear in the River Ganges poses a threat to wildlife including otters, turtles and dolphins, new research shows. The study says entanglement in fishing gear could harm species including the critically endangered three-striped roofed turtle and the endangered Ganges river dolphin. Surveys along the length of the river, from the mouth in Bangladesh […]
Affordable Clean Energy Rule Threatens Progress of Clean Air Act
Last year, the U.S. EPA finalized the Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule, a dramatic relaxing in air pollution standards. ACE effectively rolls back the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan (CPP), policy that aimed to reduce carbon emissions from U.S. electrical power generation—in particular, from coal-burning power plants—through the first national standards. ACE instead […]
Ice melt in Alaska threatens to unleash unprecedented ‘mega-tsunami,’ scientists warn
A giant, catastrophic tsunami in Alaska triggered by a landslide of rock left unstable after glacier melting is likely to occur in the next two decades, scientists fear – and it could happen within the next 12 months. A group of scientists warned of the prospects of this impending disaster in Prince William Sound in […]
Global food production threatens the climate
IMAGE: Use of fertilizers in agriculture, in particular, is responsible for the increase in the climate-damaging nitrous oxide concentration in the atmosphere. view more Credit: (Photo: Markus Breig, KIT) Concentration of dinitrogen oxide – also referred to as nitrous oxide – in the atmosphere increases strongly and speeds up climate change. In addition to CO2 and […]
Another Disease Outbreak Threatens U.S. Pigs, But Big Ag Would Rather Talk About Bacon Prices
By Martha Rosenberg There’s a lot the industrial factory farm industry prefers to keep consumers in the dark about, including what happens when millions of confined, stressed out animals with weakened immune systems are exposed to disease. What’s the latest food animal pandemic Big Meat has been trying to keep out of the news? African […]
