Happy 35th, global warming. No, I’m not implying that the earth started to warm up just 35 years ago, but that this month marks the birthday of the two-word term.
On August 8, 1975, Wallace Broecker published a paper titled Climate Change: Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced Global Warming? in the journal Science. [...]
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Happy Birthday, Global Warming
Animals Just Want to Have Fun
In a fourth grade science unit, I can remember my teacher telling the class that making and using tools was one of the most significant things that set human beings apart from all the other animals on the planet. But that was before YouTube (or even the Internet, for that matter!). Now, thanks to such [...]
Biodiversity, By Design
We humans have drained half the world’s wetlands and fully exploited or overexploited 75 percent of its fishing grounds. There are other sobering statistics our behavior has caused: every day, 130 species of plants or animals become extinct — a rate that’s probably more than a thousand times higher than the number the Earth would [...]
Can Soccer Save the Planet?
In addition to making Natural Habitat Adventures a premier eco-friendly travel company, founder Ben Bressler has taken the same environmentally responsible philosophy to his love of soccer. By encouraging soccer teams to work towards a carbon neutral gameplan (through his non-profit organization Kick Global Warming), Ben hopes to reach the worldwide soccer audience and help [...]
“Rocking the Cure” for Climate Change
As each one of your incandescent light bulbs burns out, you change it to a compact fluorescent. You’ve promised yourself that you’ll never again buy water in a plastic bottle, and you dutifully refill your aluminum canteen from the tap. When you travel, you always buy carbon offsets. On a personal level, you feel you’ve [...]
U.N. Denies Polar Bear Trading Ban
The American led movement to ban the international sale of polar bear products has failed to pass in the United Nations. Opposition from Canada, Norway and Russia prevented the ban from taking place. Despite an estimated population of only 25,000 and an ever-shrinking natural habitat, U.N. voters felt the long-term survival of polar bears was [...]
