NASA’s NPP mission will continue collecting critical climate data to help scientist unravel the mysteries of climate change. NPP is carrying five instruments on board. The biggest and most important instrument is The Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite or VIIRS. This video focuses on...
Apr
17
New Report Shows Only Nine States are Prepared
The National Resource Defense Council (NRDC) recently published a report analyzing climate preparedness levels in all 50 U.S. states.
The disturbing facts should make everyone sit up and take notice. As climate change affects everyone, it is imperative...
Apr
09
Expect Warming Oceans and Rising Sea Levels
Part II in Our Series on Sea Level Rise
Our planet is entering an environmental twilight zone, where the ultimate effects of global warming are entirely unpredictable and almost certainly irreversible over human lifetimes, given “business as usual”...
Mar
19
“It would be immoral to leave young people with a climate system spiraling out of control.”
James Hansen
Renown climate scientist and activist, James Hansen, relays his personal history with the science and debate over global climate change, beginning in the 1970′s. His 1988...
Mar
15
Courtesy of the European Environment Agency
Forests are essential to our survival and well-being. Forests clean our air, our water, our soil and they regulate our climate, amongst many other things. Trees and forests are not always associated with urban landscapes. However, there too they provide...
Mar
13
Extreme fluctuations in water level along the Volga river and around the city of Nizhny Novgorod in Russia, are affecting the city and surroundings in various degrees. The city ranks seventh in Russia in terms of industrial output, with the processing industry the most important to the local...
Feb
20
Urban Conservation in New York City
by Molly Marquand
Originally published on Izilwane
Where every great city stands today, a natural ecosystem once thrived. London was built on a floodplain of the River Thames; New York was set up on great tracts of oak woodland; and Tokyo, the most populous...
Feb
20
With the effects from climate change, The Netherlands are facing a new challenge. The current predictions are that the sea level around The Netherlands could rise from between 65 cm (25 in) and 130 cm (51 in) by the end of the century.
The municipality, West Maas En Whaal, has become a testbed for...
Feb
14
