World Wildlife Day not only offers a good opportunity to celebrate beautiful and varied forms of wild fauna and flora. The day helps raise awareness of conservation and its many benefits to people as well. It also reminds us to step up the urgent fight against wildlife crime, with its wide-ranging environmental, economic, and social impacts. On December
A panel of extraordinary military leadersâ16 men and women generals and admirals, including prior commanders, commandants, and members of the Joint Chiefs of Staffâcame to a pretty devastating conclusion recently about climate strategy. The Military Advisory Board of the Center for Naval Analyses, a 70-year-old federally funded think tank, says that current actions by the
Crude oil is a fossil fuel and was made naturally from decaying plants and animals, like this prehistoric dunkleosteus, living in ancient seas millions of years ago. Damn dunkleosteus, why couldnât your decayed remains have become solar PV cells? Joe Mohr is a cartoonist for a variety of publications and childrenâs writer and illustrator. His
â Climate change poses an immediate and grave threat, driving ill health and increasing the risk of conflict, such that each feeds on the other.â asserts a new report in the British Medical Journal by a group of UK defense, medical and public health officials.
The scientists used a general circulation model known as ModelE (developed at NASAâs Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York). The model calculates ocean-atmosphere coupling effects in addition to allowing varying aerosol inputs.
The initial input for the simulation was 5 teragrams (megatons) of black carbon particles injected into Earthâs upper troposphere. This is the estimated result of the surface detonation of 100 Hiroshima-size bombs (each equivalent to 15K tons of TNT).
