A new study said that pollution causes thunderclouds to spread and trap more heat from high in the atmosphere, and that heat drives temperatures up in the climate worsening global warming.... Read more»
Tucson will join cities around the world when lights are switched off to spotlight climate change during Earth Hour 2012 on Saturday.... Read more»1
Rick Santorum calls global warming a “hoax.” If he were a scientist, he would be in a small minority. He isn’t the only climate change skeptic, but skeptics are rare among scientists who actually study the climate.... Read more»1
Universities and colleges are in an ideal position to promote sustainability to address climate change in ways that reach beyond science, Arizona State University’s president said Friday.... Read more»
Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey and National Park Service have completed a study identifying plant species near Tucson that are being affected by climate change. While some trees and shrubs show declines, cacti increase with the heat.... Read more»
Can’t argue with what the man has done for the sweater vest.... Read more»
The Horn of Africa is in the midst of its worst drought in 60 years where crop failures have left up to 10 million at risk of famine and social order has broken down. It’s a taste of what’s to come, scientists are saying.... Read more»
Twelve weather disasters causing $1 billion or more in damage hit the United States in 2011, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced today, making this year’s weather the most extreme on record.... Read more»
Pacific Islanders face the destruction of their fragile island homes. Their response? To sing and dance, proudly, joyously. When your homeland is threatened, it might seem a strange response, unless your unique culture is all you have.... Read more»
Many Republican candidates are challenging the government’s role in protecting the environment, and showing that Obama isn’t the only change they just can’t believe in. ... Read more»
A controversial study suggests that current extinction rate projections of animal and plant species may be overestimating the role of habitat loss. But researchers said that species extinction still remains a “real and growing” threat.... Read more»
The Vatican has just issued a report that declares, without qualification and with utmost urgency, that global climate change is occurring, that humans bear responsibility for it, and that it is our gravest moral imperative to reduce carbon emissions as quickly as possible.... Read more»
Charles and David Koch, the owners of the country’s second-largest private corporation, have played an increasingly public role as financial angels for conservative causes. What’s not so well-known is the activity of Koch Industries in the trenches in Washington, where a look at lobbying disclosures reveals a lobbying steamroller for the company’s interests, at times in conflict with its public pose.... Read more»
It’s COLD out there. Real cold. But we’re gonna play football, right? Cause football ain’t… tennis.... Read more»
Arizona in the year 2100: Drought, plant invaders pose threats; From pines to prairie? Forests susceptible to fire, beetles; Rising temperatures threaten cities’ air quality along with water supplies... Read more»
Droughts are growing more severe. Has the world’s largest rain forest reached its tipping point?... Read more»
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