Do you still remember the phrase “as white as snow” during your fifth grade lesson on simile? Well, give the credit to your language teacher for that. But have you ever asked your science teacher why the snow is white?…
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There is a considerable difference between what science tells us about climate change and what scientists often tell us about climate change. Science can provide data such as measurements and statistics. Scientists offer hypotheses based on such data and possible…
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In these times of political false witness, it is important to identify the motives of those who want to downgrade the priority of critical environmental projects, given that the environment is in more trouble every day. After identifying those who…
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The term “climate change” is now common place in both the environmental and the political news, steadily increasing in our awareness for the last decade or so. It therefore pays us to understand the difference between weather and climate. Climate…
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Major cities are the financial hubs of a country from which it generates a great deal of revenue. City is a monetary support to country assets and forms the framework of developments in future. Whereas, rural areas are of less…
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In early April, organizations, like the Mississippi Delta Wildlife Refuge and the US Coast Guard, braced to deal with the effects of a 160-Square-Mile oil spill that reached the national wildlife refuge in the Delta. Water, waves, water ~ all…
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The earth is a unique place to be in. What make it interesting are the geographical extremities that could be found in different continents of the globe. You could find the highest and the lowest, the wettest and driest and…
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The Wildlife Conservation Society is a New York-based environmental organization which has been supporting conservation efforts around the world, and several zoos in New York City itself, for over a century. The organization was established in 1895 with the goal…
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Forecasting the weather has been a process dating back to the Babylonians in 650 BC, with weather predictions formed from cloud patterns and astrology. By 340 BC, Aristotle had begun to describe weather patterns in Meteorologica, a treatise containing personal…
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“Climate is the average of many, many weather events, and as you change the climate, as you change average conditions, you also change the weather events that make up climate” says Dr Benjamin Santer at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab …
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