The unknown role of large engineering and geoengineering projects in combating climate change
Month: February 2020
Ice-free Arctic: Trade routes will open up
An ice-free Arctic will open up world trade routes and attract more hydrocarbon extraction activity.
Extractive versus sustainable logging
Sustaining ecosystems should be at the heart of responsible logging.
Tongass National Forest: The good, the better, and the beautiful
Tongass logging affects both land and aquatic ecosystems. Carbon sequestration and Alaskan fisheries are both impacted.
Kimberlite pipes, diamonds, and zircons
Kimberlite pipes eject commercially valuable diamonds and geologically valuable zircons.
Rising seas: Let’s look at the numbers
Rising sea levels, a modern reality
Ogallala Aquifer groundwater, sustaining life
Groundwater for America’s breadbasket is disappearing.
A dose of realism in environmental research
Global warming of 3 degrees Celsius is a most likely case.
The collapse of Antarctic ice shelves
Ocean warming contributes to the collapse of Antarctic ice shelves.
Climate change and surface water
Climate change will expose vulnerabilities in the way we access surface water.