Climate Change Is So Bad That the US and China Agree on It

    The world’s bigggest pollutors get together.   FOR YEARS, CHINA and the US have kept each other locked in a regulatory stalemate over climate change. As political rivals, neither one of the world’s biggest carbon emitters was going to budge unless it was sure any action it took to curb carbon dioxide emissions […]

A Student’s Guide to Global Climate Change

  Our world is always changing. Look out your window long enough, and you might see the weather change. Look even longer, and you’ll see the seasons change. The Earth’s climate is changing, too, but in ways that you can’t easily see. and warmer temperatures mean that an earlier spring.   A Student’s Guide to […]

Climate March

  Read More: Community Involvement     Climate Change March In NY And How To Make a Local Difference.   More on the NY March  On September 21, 2014 over 310,000 people gathered in the streets of New York City forming the largest Climate March the nation has ever seen. The People’s Climate March lined […]

Climate Change Vulnerability to Water Assests in 8 Cities

Topics: Flooding, Environmental Health and Drinking water     Climate change and the vulnerability to our drinking water   When we talk about ‘climate change’ in this article, we do not specifically mean global warming, though that does play a part. The climate of an area regularly goes through fluctuations, and we are currently experiencing […]

Hikers Needed to Study Snow Melt

Photograph by Jon Cooper. Environmental health researchers have uncovered some surprising facts about snow melt in forests, and now they are calling for citizen scientists to help out. If you love hiking and other outdoor sports, you may be able to help protect our watersheds while doing what you enjoy anyway. Most people probably think […]