Global warming is killing off species diversity across many mountain ranges in Europe at a dizzying pace — scientists measured changes in plant communities with just 10 years, according to a study led by the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Vienna. The scientists reached their conclusions after surveys on 66 mountain summits [...]
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Warm ocean currents, driven by shifting hemispheric winds, are likely the main cause of recent ice loss in Antarctica, an international team of researchers reported this week. The new information is another step toward being able to forecast changes in global sea level, according to scientists with the British Antarctic Survey. The scientists reached their [...]
Cracking open yet another book about climate change requires a certain amount of resolve. Most readers already know the facts: In the past 50 years, average temperatures in the United States have risen 2 degrees Fahrenheit and carbon levels in the atmosphere continue to climb. Rather than contemplate the catastrophes that could result from that [...]
The first Earth Day was a product of its time, 1970. The crush of pollution sweeping across America’s air, land, and water was met by the idealism and activism of the 1960s, and the fight to “save the planet” found its voice in a one-day event that was celebration, protest, and the renewed swearing of [...]
IF YOU PICKED UP A PAIR OF DYNAFIT’S RADICAL BINDINGS in November and have been super stoked at how insanely light they are, and have otherwise had zero issues, sweet. But if you’re one of .17% (what, that’s like 50 people on the planet, tops?) who’ve had the heel lift mechanism crack or bend, know [...]
Mount Everest is dangerous to climb, but it might become far more so in the future. That’s the word from a man who should know, Apa Sherpa, who’s reached the summit of the planet a record 21 times. Now Apa — who is taking part in a grueling, 120-day, 1,100-mile walk dubbed the Climate Smart [...]
In what may go down as one of most blatantly cynical and hypocritical political moves in recent memory, a group of 44 U.S. senators introduced legislation to revive the Keystone XL pipeline. Despite President Obama’s huge strides in developing sources of sustainable, renewable homegrown energy through solar and wind, Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) characterized Obama’s [...]
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