Tag: climate change
Protecting the world’s wetlands: 5 essential reads
Jennifer Weeks, The Conversation
World Wetlands Day on Feb. 2 marks the date when 18 nations signed the Convention on Wetlands in 1971, in the...
Amazon deforestation, already rising, may spike under Bolsonaro
Robert T. Walker, University of Florida
Over the past 25 years that I have been conducting environmental research in the Amazon, I have witnessed the...
Not so long ago, cities were starved for trees
Sonja Dümpelmann, Harvard University
Many cities, in recent years, have initiated tree planting campaigns to offset carbon dioxide emissions and improve urban microclimates.
In 2007, New...
We can’t save everything from climate change – here’s how to...
Benjamin Preston, Pardee RAND Graduate School and Johanna Nalau, Griffith University
Recent reports have delivered sobering messages about climate change and its consequences. They include...
To preserve US national parks in a warming world, reconnect fragmented...
Stephen Nash, University of Richmond
The Trump administration’s decision to keep many U.S. national parks open during the current federal government shutdown, with few or...
Mapping the world’s ‘blue carbon’ hot spots in coastal mangrove forests
Robert Twilley, Louisiana State University and Andre Rovai, Louisiana State University
Human actions have boosted carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere to levels...
With the right guiding principles, carbon taxes can work
Gilbert E. Metcalf, Tufts University
Like most economists, I favor taxing carbon dioxide to cut carbon pollution.
A carbon tax makes fossil fuels like oil and...
Reclaiming lost calories: Tweaking photosynthesis boosts crop yields
Amanda Cavanagh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
What if your ability to feed yourself was dependent on a process that made a mistake 20 percent...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
