Monthly archives: April 2017
First ever observed case of ‘river piracy’ saw the Slims river disappear as intense glacier melt suddenly diverted its flow into another watercourse. An immense river that flowed from one of Canada’s largest glaciers vanished over the course of four days last year, scientists have reported, in an unsettling illustration […]
Receding glacier causes immense Canadian river to vanish in four ...
By Simon Whalley The problem of global warming is perhaps the greatest in the 200,000 year history of Homo sapiens. In only 70,000 years, we have gone from an unimportant animal in Africa to become the master of the entire planet and unfortunately; we are waging war on our ecosystem […]
The effects of our meat eating habits
If fossil fuel use continues unabated, atmosphere could revert “to values of CO2 not seen since the early Eocene (50 million years ago),” new report finds. Current carbon dioxide levels are unprecedented in human history and could reach a level unseen in millennia if their rates continue at this pace, […]