Global warming challenges grapegrowers to find answers – Napa Valley Register
Global temperature increases are affecting grapevines, and vineyardists are looking for answers. As temperatures rise, the results are increased variability and extreme weather conditions. Exactly how the Napa Valley and other wine-growing regions respond and work to help alleviate the…
The Green Bridge To Nowhere
Mankind’s attempt to control the climate is going to be very, very costly – to you. Even worse, there is no guarantee of any benefit, environmental, planetary, or otherwise. Every version of the Green New Deal proposed by various politicians…
Itâs time to watch for the zodiacal light
The zodiacal light is an eerie light extending up from the horizon. This is a good time of year to see it in the evening, from the Northern Hemisphere. Southern Hemisphere, look before dawn!
An Unusual New York City Election Tests Whether Global Warming Can Win A Local Race – HuffPost
RIDGEWOOD, N.Y. ― In a past life, during the halcyon days before hipsters colonized New York City’s outer boroughs, Costa Constantinides sold toys here in this working-class, immigrant neighborhood in central Queens. It was a time when the city had…
Climate summit calls for urgent action after Australia’s fire-hit summer
The megafires of Australia’s summer “are a harbinger of life and death on a hotter Earth”, a climate summit has said in a forceful declaration for urgent and dramatic climate action. The Climate Emergency Summit, held in Melbourne this week…
INVESTMENT: Yale endowment steward is tackling climate change
Dean Takahashi, the second-in-command at Yale’s $30 billion endowment fund, woke up early one morning last summer and turned to his wife. “I had a great idea,” he said. “Kelp!”
5,200-year-old grains in the eastern Altai Mountains redate trans-Eurasian crop exchange
(Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History) Cereals from the Fertile Crescent and broomcorn millet from northern China spread across the ancient world, integrating into complex farming systems that used crop-rotation cycles enabled by the different ecological regions of origin. The resulting productivity allowed for demographic expansions and imperial formation in Europe and Asia. In this study, an international, interdisciplinary team of scientists illustrate that people moved these crops across Eurasia earlier than previously realized, adapting cultivation methods for harsh agricultural environments.
Car sharing innovation and impact: Comparing European cities
(Politecnico di Torino) While waiting for the publication of the toolkit for local decision-makers, expected by the summer, some European case studies analyzed in the STARS project are presented in Bremen
Report: U.S. The World Leader For Reducing CO2 Emissions In 2019
The United States led the world in tackling CO2 emissions last year while combining that singular success with solid economic growth, a new report reveals. It has also been confirmed while the U.S. was hitting its climate goals, at the…
Climate change: Bangkok, Amsterdam and Melbourne ‘face greatest global warming risk’ – Sky News
Bangkok, Amsterdam and Melbourne stand to be the cities most hit by climate change by 2050, according to new analysis. Rising sea levels caused by an increase in global temperatures will hit Thailand’s capital harder than any other, the Nestpick…
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