This year we will surpass 418 parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere – that’s more CO2 blanketing the earth than any time in the last 3 million years! The economic shutdown has done next to nothing to address the climate crisis. There has been a slight...
Climate disruption is just one of the ways human life is threatened due to massive environmental destruction. Our lives depend on robust ecosystems and diversity of animal and plant life. A recent study of land animals found that more than 500 species are likely to...
On June 4, protesters in Hong Kong held their annual vigil for the victims of the Tienanmen Square massacre in Beijing 31 years ago. The vigil defied a police ban and comes in the wake of continued demonstrations against Chinese control of Hong Kong which erupted last...
Cyclone Amphan, the first super cyclone in the Bay of Bengal in over 20 years, devastated parts of Bangladesh and India last week. Cyclones are hurricanes by another name on the other side of the world. This one was huge. Millions of people had to evacuate. And this...
From middle school teachers in Lyon, France: Schools in France re-opened May 11, at least in the areas where the virus has spread the least (depicted in green on the map). To be more specific, only preschool, elementary school, 6th and 7th grade pupils have returned...
