Agriculture and land use together are responsible for 25% of all anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Land cover change, such as deforestation, adds another 12-17%. Unlike GHG mitigation strategies in many other […]
The Breakthrough Institute recently released The Ecomodernist Manifesto which gives us a window into the mind of a new type of environmentalist: the “ecomodernist. The Ecomodernist Manifesto does not call for a […]
Thirteen thousand years ago North America was home to more than fifty species of megafauna–animals that weigh more than one hundred pounds. If you think the United States has a weight problem […]
The below picture for this blog post is a powerful image of how the Atlantic ocean will cover New York City’s Wall Street if we allow the world to rise four degrees Celsius. This article explores […]
Three years before Syria’s uprising in 2011, the country experienced the worst drought in recorded history. This unprecedented dry weather caused dramatic crop failure and livestock mortality in regions heavily dependent on […]
John Muir said that, “when we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe”. That is exactly what ecologists from the University of Montana […]
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