Tag: News
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ExxonMobil Ignores IPCC Warning, Vows to Burn All Oil Reserves
Yesterday the world’s leading climate scientists, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), published their final report in their recent trilogy of warnings about climate change. The latest authoritative document, produced by 1,250 international scientists and approved by nearly 200 governments, argued that climate change can be avoided if we move fast to decarbonise the…
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New IPCC Report: Fossil Fuel Divestment Must Start Now
For the second time in three weeks, a United Nations panel sent a loud-and-clear message—now is the time to divest from fossil fuels. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released another addition to its Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) Sunday in Berlin, Germany, entitled Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change, to detail how the world can keep…
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Ohio Earthquakes Linked to Fracking, State First to Require Companies to Test for Seismic Activity
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) announced on Friday that recent earthquakes in northeastern Ohio were likely caused by hydraulic fracturing—or fracking. [caption id="attachment_330422" align="alignnone" width="600"] Earthquake epicenters and past seismic events in Ohio. Graphic courtesy of ODNR[/caption] A series of earthquakes up to magnitude 3.0 struck on March 1o-11 in Mahoning County near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border. A nearby…
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9 Fascinating Facts About Animals
After reading this post, and you’ll be even more in love with animals than you already are. 1. Clams Are Complicated They can change gender once during their lifetime, right after their juvenile stage, but only from male to female. Many other mollusks are either hermaphroditic or have the ability to change sex. 2. Jewel…
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Devastating Bat-Killing Disease Spreads From Eastern U.S. to Midwest States
The devastating bat-killing disease that has already killed more than 7 million bats across the Eastern U.S. has spread to Wisconsin and Michigan, state wildlife officials announced this week. During routine surveys of bat hibernating areas late this winter, biologists discovered signs of the malady known as white-nose syndrome that was first documented in upstate New York…