Climate change risk is complex: here is a way to assess it – The Conversation CA
A key feature of climate change is that it doesn’t pose one single risk. Rather, it presents multiple, interacting risks that can compound and cascade. Importantly, responses to climate change can also affect risk. In our highly connected world, climate…
Florida bill says companies like SpaceX retain ownership of fallen hardware
In and around Florida, at least, no more “finders keepers” once a new bill becomes law on July 1. The Spaceflight Assets bill affirmed by the Florida legislature in late April 2021 requires that anyone who finds “reasonably identifiable” spacecraft parts make a “reasonable effort” to notify the hardware’s owner.
Nature is Critical to Slowing Climate Change, But It Can Only Do So If We Help It First – InsideClimate News
No matter how many solar panels, wind turbines and electric cars are built between now and 2030, the world won’t meet its increasingly ambitious climate targets without a lot of help from forests, fields and oceans. “Achieving net-zero by 2050…
Small things can have a major effect on the prevention of biodiversity loss
(University of Helsinki) The population growth of an endangered butterfly species is greatest in habitats with microclimatic variability, demonstrates a study carried out collaboratively by the Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences and the Helsinki Institute of Life Science of the University of Helsinki as well as the Finnish Environment Institute.
Hurray for Hippos!
Today let’s celebrate the stars of the show at Mpala’s live cams—HIPPOS! There has been a resident pod here for decades. So established are they that surrounding communities and ranches refer to the location as THE hippo pool. Nestled in…
New US weather data shows ‘obvious’ effects of climate change – Al Jazeera English
NOAA report on ‘new normals’ in climate over the past decade shows a hotter US, thanks to climate change. The United States is getting warmer and parts of it are getting wetter, according to weather data released on Tuesday by…
Changing specialisation to cope with climate change | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal – voxeu.org
Bruno Conte, Klaus Desmet, Dávid Krisztián Nagy, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg 04 May 2021 In discussing trade policy in the context of climate change, some people are quick to argue that trade might have to be restricted. After all, trade involves transportation,…
When Is the Right Time to Start Your Backyard Composter?
Vermont became the first state to mandate composting of food scraps. While this was the first state-wide mandate, there are cities across the U.S. that have also discussed or implemented laws requiring food waste to go into composters instead of the trash. California is set to start its mandatory food waste composting requirement in 2022. You’ve […]
Explained: What new research says about climate change causing a shift in Earth’s axis – The Indian Express
Rising sea levels, heatwaves, melting glaciers and storms are some of the well-known consequences of climate change. New research has added yet another impact to this list – marked shifts in the axis along which the Earth rotates. A study…
Moon sweeps by Saturn and Jupiter May 3-5
Watch for the waning moon to swing to the south of the ringed planet Saturn and then south of the king planet Jupiter around May 3, 4 and 5, 2021.
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