Earth Overshoot Day 2017: August 2nd
Earth Overshoot Day will arrive on August 2 this year, according to environmental groups WWF and Global Footprint Network. It means humanity will be living on “credit” for the rest of the year. It’s the earliest date since the day was first calculated in 1971.
Higher seas to flood dozens of US cities, study says; is yours one of them?
For the past several years, scientists have been trying to get people to wake up to the dangers that lie ahead in rising seas due to climate change. A comprehensive list now names hundreds of US cities, large and small, that may not make it through the next 20, 50 or 80 years due to sea level rise.
Earth to warm 2 degrees Celsius by the end of this century, studies say
By the end of the century, the global temperature is likely to rise more than 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit. This rise in temperature is the ominous conclusion reached by two different studies using entirely different methods.
Antarctica; By Denis Delestrac
Antarctica, is an image from Denis Delestrac
The end of the world’s most famous beaches; By Orrin H. Pilkey and J. Andrew G. Cooper
All over the world there are beaches lined with condos, hotels, restaurants and the like, in high-rise buildings (i.e., skyscrapers). Such beaches are generally the nation’s premier tourist areas, important to the local people and the local economy and prime spots for national and international vacationers. The powers that be in most of these places continue high-rise construction and seem oblivious of the sea level rise.