Recycling in the U.S. Is Broken. How Do We Fix It?
Earth Institute | Columbia University
Renee Cho
Recycling in the U.S. is broken.
Earth Institute | Columbia University
Renee Cho
Recycling in the U.S. is broken.
This map is a work in progress. The uses of water, air and land are diverse in New Mexico and will change dramatically with climate change. For caretakers of this sacred trust, the map offers a bird’s eye view of the health of our environment.
Eric Hilaire
Photographer Peter Caton talks about his visit to the Cerrado – the world's largest savannah. It contains 5% of the world's biodiversity, but is being destroyed at an incredible rate to make way for monocultures that may have devastating long-term effects.
Global carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels have increased by 49 per cent in the last two decades, according to the latest figures by an international team, including researchers at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia.
Steve Connor
Dramatic and unprecedented plumes of methane – a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide – have been seen bubbling to the surface of the Arctic Ocean by scientists undertaking an extensive survey of the region.
Reuters
* Animals most at risk on islands, mountains, and coasts
* Global warming threatens 20-30 pct of plant, animal species Climate change hotspots in Africa
CORNELIA DEAN
U.S. sets record with a dozen billion-dollar weather disasters in one year
U.S. sets record with a dozen billion-dollar weather disasters in one year
Sustainability has not only become a science in the past 25 years, but it is one that continues to be fast-growing with widespread international collaboration, broad disciplinary composition and wide geographic distribution, according to new research from Los Alamos National Laboratory and Indian