A 60m-year-lineage comes to an end
A trip to Crete, Cyprus or Malta 800 years ago would have been a great chance to meet pygmy elephants. Pygmy elephants of the Mediterranean islands may appear as fantastical as the woolly mammoths which still ambled across one Alaskan island just 5,600 ye...
Save Reef from Climate Change
Serious steps should be taken to save reef from climate change. The Queensland Government should do something to shift to a low carbon future and to reduce pollution. It is known that unless we can keep warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius, the Reef can’t...
Australia Rated “Very Poor” for Action on Climate Change Issues
The guardian reports that Under China’s leadership, this weekend’s G20 deeply analyses climate-related issues. Before the G20 summit in China, a comprehensive assessment was conducted revealing Australia is the worst country among other G20 countries ...
Global Warming Effecting Airports
According to New York Times, the world’s airports were mostly designed for cooler weather conditions. But now climate change is making airport planners worried about the future. Angela Gittens, the director general at Airports Council International’s ...
Smaller Birds and Mammals Will Dominate Over the Next 100 Years
SienceDaily informs that according to the findings published by researchers at the University of Southampton, in the future, small, fast-lived, highly-fertile, insect-eating animals, which can thrive in a wide-variety of habitats, will predominate. And le...
The Amazon Rainforest is On Fire
The Amazon is often referred to as the planet’s lungs, producing 20% of the oxygen in the Earth’s atmosphere. It is considered vital in slowing global warming, and it is home to uncountable species of flora and fauna. Roughly half the size of ...
ExxonMobil’s Disinformation Campaign on Climate Change
Los Angeles Times reports about ExxonMobil, an American oil and gas corporation, which was facing New York state accusations for misleading investors about climate change. A team of researchers released a report on outlining the company and the broader fo...
Canadian Government Sued by Kids over Climate Change
Nature.com informs that a group of children and young adults filed a lawsuit on 25 October alleging that the Canadian government has violated their constitutional rights by promoting and enabling fossil-fuel development in spite of acknowledged risks from...
Cold Winters in the Conditions of Global Warming?
Fox59 informs that parts of the US are facing record cold temperatures, and some people wonder what happened to global warming. To understand why, you have to first know the difference between weather and climate. Weather is what happens today, climate is...
