By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Scientists for decades have been warning that climate change due to global warming from the burning of fossil fuels for energy would cause more destructive and costly hurricanes to hit the continental United States with increasing ferocity. Study after study show this to be the case. But as…
ENVIRONMENT
Endangered Spotted Owls Get Another Chance
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – The endangered California spotted owl has long been a symbol in the battle between preserving the environment and allowing the cutting of trees in the American West, a political football between those who want to protect the environment for wildlife and those who believe private profits for people…
Biden Administration Announces Plan to Cut Methane Pollution that Threatens the Climate and Public Health
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Biden administration says the United States will for the first time heavily regulate the potent greenhouse gas methane, which leaks from oil and natural gas platforms and is a significant source of air pollution that is contributing to warming the atmosphere 80 times as fast as carbon dioxide,…
New Studies Show Climate Change Leads to the ‘Biggest Health Threat Facing Humanity’
85 percent of the global population has experienced weather events made worse by climate change – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Two new science reports out Monday show that climate change is leading to major health threats against humanity and that at least 85 percent of the global population has experienced weather events…
Summer 2021 Was Hottest on Record in the United States
Staff Report – Summer 2021 was the hottest summer on record, according to 126 years of records for the contiguous United States. So says a report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released Thursday. The average temperature for all of the Lower 48 states from June through August was 74.0 degrees Fahrenheit, or 2.6…
No More Hurricanes Named Ida: New Orleans Evacuates People in No Power Zones
Staff Report – Hurricane Ida’s deadly and destructive siege of wind and flooding from Louisiana to the Northeast virtually guarantees the retirement of that name from future use. Atlantic tropical storm and hurricane name lists repeat every six years unless a storm is so severe that the name is retired from future lists. This avoids…
Global Warming Causes Climate Change, Fueling Larger and More Violent Hurricanes
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Ida is a feminine given name found in Europe and North America, also popular in Scandinavian countries, where it is pronounced Ee-da. The name has an ancient Germanic etymology meaning “industrious” or “prosperous” and derives from the Germanic root id meaning “labor, work.” Clearly the National Hurricane Center,…
Hurricane Ida Slams Louisiana, Overtopping Levees and Trapping People in Attics
Staff Report – Hurricane Ida’s catastrophic crawl across Louisiana inundated miles of roadways and neighborhoods, ripped apart buildings and trapped hundreds of residents who can’t call 911 because service has been knocked out, and cannot be rescued because conditions are still too treacherous to reach them. At least one levee overtopped in lower Jefferson Parish,…
Ida Makes Landfall in Louisiana as a Category 4 Hurricane
Staff Report – Ida roared ashore in southeastern Louisiana on Sunday as a category 4 hurricane, bringing several feet of storm surge flooding and extreme winds that are crushing the Gulf Coast, according to reporting from the Weather Channel. Reports continue to trickle out of Grand Isle, Louisiana, detailing the disastrous conditions there, where water…
Forty Million People Rely on the Colorado River and It’s Drying Up Fast
Biden EPA Bans Chemical Pesticide Linked to Psychological Health Disorders in Children
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Millions of children just in the United States have been diagnosed with some form of attention deficit disorder and/or hyperactivity disorder by psychiatrists and psychologists, and are often treated with pharmaceutical medication or behavioral therapy. But what if these problems are not genetic or cultural psychological issues, but…
July 2021: The Hottest Month In Recorded Human History
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s official, and one for the record books. July was the hottest month ever recorded in human history, according to new data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Centers for Environmental Information.. “In this case, first place is the worst place to be,” NOAA Administrator Rick…
June Sets Record for Hottest Ever in North America
Red Road to DC: Lummi Nation to Transport Climate Change Totem Poll from Washington State to Washington, D.C.
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — As record-breaking heat waves and floods ravage the continent, members of the Lummi Nation are transporting a 25-foot, hand-carved and painted totem pole from Washington State to Washington D.C., visiting many sacred and historic places along the way under threat from climate change, dams and resource extraction. They are…
Not Exactly a Silent Spring Due to Cicadas, but the Birds Are Dying Again
Scientists Urge People to Stop Feeding the Birds – “Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.” — Albert Schweitzer By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAIN, Md. — In 1962, before President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas, he set up a special…
Biden Administration Brings Back Endangered Species Protections Gutted Under Trump
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a continuing series of executive actions to reverse damaging anti-environment policies of the Trump administration, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service under President Joe Biden announced new plans this week to re-strengthen the Endangered Species Act, the law and a series…
Biden EPA Issues Authoritative Report on Global Warming and Climate Change
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – What a difference a respect for science makes. After four years of being gutted and corrupted by the influence of polluting industry insiders with their heads all stuck up the hole in Donald Trump’s cult of personality backside, the Environmental Protection Agency is back in the Biden administration.…
Setting the Record Straight: The National Park Service is Not Allowing the Hunting of Black Bears Infected with Mange
Biden Administration Outlines ‘America the Beautiful’ Initiative
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a clean break from the anti-nature politics and policies of the previous administration, the Biden-Harris administration has begun to outline a different vision for how the United States can work collaboratively to conserve and restore public lands, waters and wildlife that in many ways support and sustain the…