"Spring Starts Early As US Winter Was Warmest On Record"
"Across much of America and especially in the normally chilly north, the country went through the winter months without, well, winter."
Source: AP, 03/11/2024
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"The Best Wildlife Cams to Celebrate World Wildlife Day"
"These live streams provide a front-row seat to wildlife across the globe".
Source: Sierra, 03/01/2024
"Private Landowners Are the Missing Link for Prescribed Burns"
"Community organizations teach individuals to manage their land with fire in states like Georgia, where 93 percent of the land is privately owned".
Source: Sierra, 02/21/2024
"Global Warming Could Drive Locust Outbreaks into New Regions, Study Warns"
"A study published today in Science Advances suggests that, if global warming isn’t curbed, west India and west central Asia could become locust hotspots in the decades ahead, raising new challenges for control efforts, and further threatening food security and livelihoods in already vulnerable regions."
Source: Inside Climate News, 02/15/2024
"In Kenya, The King Of The Jungle Faces A New Challenge — Ants"
"Researchers said big-headed ants started an “ecological chain reaction” in a Kenya conservancy, impacting lions and other animals".
Source: Washington Post, 02/06/2024
"How Is Climate Change Spreading Neglected Tropical Diseases?"
"Global warming will cause a catastrophic rise in mosquito-borne diseases such as dengue and chikungunya, spreading them to less affected places including Europe and the United States, a World Economic Forum (WEF) report said this month."
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 01/31/2024
Where Has All The Honey Gone? Scientists Explain Declining Yields
"It’s a question that has bedeviled beekeepers across the US in recent years: where has all the honey gone? Scientists now say they have some answers as to why yields of honey have declined, pointing to environmental degradation that is affecting all sorts of bees, and insects more generally."
Source: Guardian, 01/09/2024
"The Dark Side of Bright Nights"
"Light can be deadly. Many animals and plants are threatened by artificial light. Numerous organisms have found their evolutionary niche in the dark of night, and now have to adapt to bright nights. Not all of them succeed."
Source: DW, 12/21/2023
"What’s on the Menu When Your Cat Goes Out? Probably More Than You Think."
"Free-ranging cats hunt or scavenge more than 2,000 species, some of them imperiled, according to a new study."
Source: NYTimes, 12/13/2023
"Disinformation Is One of Climate Summit’s Biggest Challenges"
"As the world’s leaders gather this week at a major summit to discuss ways to address the effects of global warming, one of the greatest obstacles they face is disinformation." "Online influencers, fossil fuel companies and some of the countries attending COP28 have nourished a feedback loop of falsehoods."
Source: NYTimes, 12/01/2023
