Ursa Minor the Lesser Bear is the Little Dipper

Ursa Minor is the Lesser Bear, but you might know it as the Little Dipper. Also, its brightest star is Polaris, the North Star.

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‘Life Finds a Way’: Polar Bears Successfully Adapt Even Without As Much Sea Ice

The furry-faced poster animal of the climate crisis is still surviving, even in a world without as much sea ice, according to a new survey. Along Greenland’s southeast coast, the usual 100-days of frozen sea water is being replaced by a floating landscape of ice coming off the fronts of glaciers, providing the bears with […]

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Warming Trends: How Hairdressers Are Mobilizing to Counter Climate Change, Plus Polar Bears in Greenland and the ‘Sounds of the Ocean’ – InsideClimate News

CULTURE Cutting Hair and Talking Climate When a client sits down in Paloma Rose Garcia’s chair for a haircut, one of the most popular topics of conversation is the weather.  The Sydney, Australia-based hairdresser and owner of Paloma Salon said…

The surprising story of ‘warming stripes’ – The New York Times

June 21 is Show Your Stripes Day. Stripes, as in warming stripes, a popular way to visualize global warming trends over the last 150 years. You’ll find warming stripes on face masks (see my Twitter profile), on scarves (Blackrock’s chief…

Greenland Ice Cores Show Temps Were Much Warmer 4,000 Years Ago

Jørgen Peder Steffensen is an ice core research professor at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen. His team has reconstructed the last 10,000 years of Greenland’s climate history using ice core data. It bears the fingerprints of…

Indigenous rights leader, Nobel nominee Sheila Watt-Cloutier to speak at climate change summit – CU Boulder Today

Sheila Watt-Cloutier Sheila Watt-Cloutier, global advocate for indigenous rights and health, and leader focused on the impact of climate change on human rights, will present a keynote address at the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit at CU Boulder…

Global warming: a quest for truth? – The Spectator Australia

Like many who pontificate on Climate Change, (such luminaries as Greta Thunberg), I am not a climate scientist, but I do have a scientific background and am well aware of how cherry picking numbers can produce whatever result you like….

How ‘Frozen Zoos’ Are Helping Save Vanishing Species

Over the last two decades, a secret institution has gone largely uncredited with some fairly remarkably achievements in animal conservation. But as well as potentially offering the only chance for the northern white rhino’s survival, the “Frozen Zoo” at San Diego has already given a second chance to animals as close to and (some times […]

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Elite Attend Davos In Private Jets, Tout ‘Carbon Footprint’ Trackers For Plebs

At the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, the world’s elites gathered to discuss their plans for a reenvisioned world in the wake of global government terrorism – apparently ‘justified’ because of COVID-19. President of the Forum Klaus Schwab…

OPINION | Global warming is here, it is no longer a thing of the future – Mail and Guardian

In her career spanning more than 30 years as an environmental activist, physicist, sustainability philosopher and climate scientist, Vandana Shiva teaches us that what we do to our environment always comes back to us. Similarly, on the African continent, Nobel…