Tag: Featured News
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Climate Change Effects Antarctica’s Ocean Salinity, Traping Heat in Deep Water
In the mid-1970s, the first available satellite images of Antarctica during the polar winter revealed a huge ice-free region within the ice pack of the Weddell Sea. This ice-free region—or polynya—stayed open for three full winters before it closed. Subsequent research showed that the opening was maintained as relatively warm waters churned upward from kilometers…
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Flood Risk in Europe Expected to Double by 2050
By Tim Radford The catastrophic floods that soaked Europe last summer and the United Kingdom this winter are part of the pattern of things to come. According to a new study of flood risk in Nature Climate Change annual average losses from extreme floods in Europe could increase fivefold by 2050. And the frequency of destructive…
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First-Ever World Wildlife Day Focuses Attention on Illegal Poaching and Trafficking
The United Nations’ inaugural World Wildlife Day kicks off today with events around the world, as global attention turns to a $19 billion USD illicit trade—the fourth largest in the world—that includes elephant poaching, great ape theft and the illegal transport of timber. The third of March was also the day of adoption of the…
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Breaking: Hundreds of Youth Arrested at White House Protesting Keystone XL Pipeline
[Stay tuned to EcoWatch as we update this post as news unfolds on the arrests.] Today more than 1,000 youth from across the country marched to the White House from Georgetown University—where President Obama laid out his “climate test”—to protest the Keystone XL pipeline. Once at the White House, hundreds of youth were arrested while participating…
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13 Movies That Showcase the Great Outdoors
Academy Award season is officially in full swing. Have you seen these films that exhibit the outdoors (for better or worse)? America’s fascination with the outdoors began long before the growth of Hollywood in the early twentieth century, and so it has been woven throughout our cinematic history as well. Typically, the role of wilderness…