Earth Overshoot Day: August 1st, 2018
Earth Overshoot Day is not a day to be celebrated, but it is a day that deserves to be noticed and acted upon. It’s the day we go into ‘nature debt,’ utilizing more than the year’s supply of water, forest and agricultural resources
As California burns, many fear the future of extreme fire has arrived
Experts say the state’s increasingly ferocious wildfires are not an aberration – they are the new reality. As the climate shifts, so does fire behavior. Summers are longer and drier. Sometimes the winter rains are meager for years, as in the recent five-year drought.
How record heat wreaked havoc on four continents
Expect more. That’s the verdict of climate scientists to the record-high temperatures this spring and summer in vastly different climate zones.