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Across the globe, youth lead a day of protest for urgent action on the climate emergency.

3 August 2019

Anti-Thunberg op-ed rests climate crisis hope on America’s failing “democracy”

Christopher Caldwell‘s Aug. 2 op-ed in, of all papers, the allegedly leftist New York Times, “The Problem With Greta Thunberg’s Climate Activism,” is shockingly dismissive…

Global scorching

Across the globe, youth lead a day of protest for urgent action on the climate emergency.

3 August 2019

Anti-Thunberg op-ed rests climate crisis hope on America’s failing “democracy”

27 July 2019

More trees, yes, but —

Above-average temperatures scorched Alaska and Northern Canada in the first half of 2019. Red indicates areas warmer than average while blue indicates colder than average. The darker the red, or blue, the greater the deviation from average.

6 July 2019

Alaska bakes in record high temperatures as sea ice nears record low

Global warming

Unlike Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) miscalculating the consequences of his actions, there is no miscalculating the cause and effect of greenhouse gas emissions. (Source: Lucasfilm Ltd.)

7 April 2019

Visualizing cause and effect of global warming

By definition, the Green New Deal is not inconceivable. From "The Princess Bride:" Wallace Shawn, Robin Wright, and Andre the Giant.

3 March 2019

Feinstein yet another Democrat to consider Green New Deal inconceivable

Then-President Ronald Reagan uses a graph to highlight the alleged benefits of his supply-side economics plan, yet the upward red-shaded trend in his graph is prescient in terms of rising global temperatures

13 February 2019

The only thing trickling down is global warming

Alternative energy

Norway's Havyard Group ASA is filling 13 orders for zero-emission ferries received since 2016 (Photo: Carina Johansen/Bloomberg)

14 March 2018

Batteries a clean energy solution for shipping

For every one bird killed by a wind turbine, fossil fuel-powered plants kill 2,188 birds. (Photo: David Clarke)

8 March 2018

Wind farms least threat to birds

Marine life

The orca Tahlequah grieved the death of her calf for 17 days and 1,000 miles.

19 June 2019

Time for a Puget Sound Bill of Rights

Enquiring minds examine hidden marine life during low tide at West Seattle's Constellation Park

31 August 2018

The hidden marine life along the shore — and threats to its survival

The rosette holds Niskin bottles that collect water at different depths and help measure conductivity (salinity), temperature, and pressure.

21 July 2018

Examining the health of Puget Sound aboard the research vessel Rachel Carson

Pollution

New research confirms Dr. King's declaration that segregation is bad for our health.

4 April 2018

Pollution discriminates: worse in segregated areas, research shows

The River Tame, near Manchester, U.K., has the highest microplastic pollution yet discovered anywhere in the world.

12 March 2018

Microplastic pollution in ocean numbers beyond trillions

6 March 2018

How plastic pollution harms marine life

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