I Am Haunted by What I Have Seen at Great Salt Lake

From a distance, it is hard to tell whether the three figures walking the salt playa are human, bird or some other animal. Through binoculars, I see they are pelicans, juveniles, gaunt and emaciated without water or food. In feathered…

The Never-Ending Schemes Of The Climate Change Grifters

Grifters have long fascinated us. Operating outside accepted moral standards, they excel at persuading their “marks” to hand valuables over willingly. If they ever represented a “distinctly American ethos,” they’ve been supplanted by con artists seeking bank accounts for funds…

Ancient lake on Titan could have lasted thousands of years

Researchers at MIT say that a former liquid water lake on Titan – Saturn’s large moon – might have existed for tens of thousands of years.

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Smelly seaweed sargassum headed toward Florida, the Caribbean. Why? – USA TODAY

Beachgoers in Florida and the Caribbean could be greeted by heavy blankets of smelly seaweed in the weeks ahead as a 5,000 mile swath of sargassum drifts westward and piles onto white sandy beaches. Sargassum, a naturally-occurring type of macroalgae, has…

Drought Study Finds Climate Change Responsible, Irrefutable Research – CleanTechnica

Warming Makes Droughts, Extreme Wet Events More Frequent, Intense Scientists have predicted that droughts and floods will become more frequent and severe as our planet warms and climate changes, but detecting this on regional and continental scales has proven difficult….

Alaska’s Willow arctic drilling project is a climate turning-point. Biden must say no | Kim Heacox

President Biden faces a legacy-making – or legacy-breaking – decision in arctic Alaska with the $8bn Willow project, the largest oil and gas project currently proposed on US public lands. If Biden remembers his visionary pledge – forged in the…

Iraqi PM promises action to tackle crippling climate change – The Associated Press – en Español

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s prime minister Sunday promised sweeping measures to tackle climate change — which has affected millions across the country — including plans to meet a third of the country’s electricity demands using renewable energy. Climate change for…

Scientists warn of ‘phosphogeddon’ as critical fertiliser shortages loom

Our planet faces “phosphogeddon”, scientists have warned. They fear our misuse of phosphorus could lead to deadly shortages of fertilisers that would disrupt global food production. At the same time, phosphate fertiliser washed from fields – together with sewage inputs…

My Cyclone Diary: after the flood, the dread that replaces panic

It is difficult to record historical events that will in time determine policy decisions and economic outcomes, and the lives of those affected, while events are still unfolding. There are the quick impressions – men wrestling escaped bees on a…

The 50 States of Climate Change – Outside Online – Outside

Since the 1700s, the amount of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere has increased by 40 percent, largely from greenhouse gasses released by people burning fossil fuels like oil, gas, and coal. As a result, the climate is becoming more…