As Brazil’s Amazon rain forest burns, President Donald Trump is taking aim at one of the largest expanses of temperate rainforest in North America. Trump moves to allow logging in the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest: Last Tuesday, the president instructed Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to allow logging in the 16.7 million acre Tongass National … Read more
There have been five mass extinction events on plant Earth. The sixth mass extinction event is currently underway, i.e., the Holocene extinction, the first that is the result of human activity. The Permian–Triassic extinction, which occurred 251 million years ago, is considered the worst in all history because around 96% of species were lost. “The Great … Read more
It is an old axiom that it is socially inappropriate to speak ill of a person in the immediate aftermath of their death. But what if that person has been an evil villain their entire life? It seems entirely appropriate to acknowledge their life of villainy, and yes, to even proclaim “good riddance” on their passing. … Read more
Axios recently reported that “17 countries use more than 80% of their available water supplies every year, meaning droughts or increased water demand for agriculture and growing cities could leave them at risk of crisis, according to the World Resources Institute.” Last year, the nearly 4 million people who live in Cape Town, South Africa … Read more
According to a new United Nations climate report release last week, agricultural practices and people’s diets will need to change as rising temperatures diminish the earth’s ability to absorb dangerous emissions. UN panel calls for changes to farming, diets to stave off climate change: The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released on … Read more