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Polar Regions Compete with Coral Reefs to Shout Out a Warning. Is Anyone Listening?
The number caught my eye. Because of its immensity. Twenty-eight trillion tonnes. That is one hell of a lot of ice. On the 23rd of August, The Guardian reported that planet Earth had lost 28 trillion tonnes of ice since 1994. Slowly, over 30 years, it had melted away. It was lost from glaciers, from … Continue reading
Is There Any Future for Coral Reefs?
Back in March, I took a look at the state of climate change and the tasks facing nations if we are to limit average warming to 1.5oC. Those tasks were, and remain, demanding. Now we are enduring the covid-19 pandemic, and action on climate change has slowed perceptibly, even as the economic collapse leads to … Continue reading
Our Environmental Crisis in a New Post-Covid-19 World – Pluses and Minuses of a Pandemic
You might have thought that with Covid-19 locking down life, I’d have ample free time to post to my blog. Fact is, I’ve been remarkably busy, in remarkably ineffective ways. With next to nothing on my schedule for weeks, I’ve fallen into the trap which others have commented on. While some people have used the … Continue reading