Tagged as: climate change
Extending Public Health Concerns
If you thought public health only included disease prevention, think again.The American Public Health Association is meeting to discuss fresh ways to tackle public health concerns such as poverty, violence, climate change, and drinking and driving....
Record-Breaking Temperatures Confirm Earth’s Hottest Year Yet
Despite claims from climate change contrarians, global warming is not under control.Scientists measuring the worldwide increase in temperature predict that 2015 will exceed the record-breaking heat wave that took place last year.
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Third Coral Bleaching Event Linked To Rising Ocean Temperature
Scientists have confirmed that the world is currently in the middle of the third coral bleaching event to ever be recorded.The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has found global evidence to support the occurrence of major changes...
Wildfires Increase Due To Global Warming
Wildfires in the Western part of America have been doing more damage in recent years than ever before. Scientists have discovered a reason for the spike.A recent University of Wyoming study shows the increase in expansiveness, frequency and intensity o...
Could Carbon Nanofibers Slow Climate Change?
Climate change predictions are pretty grim, but a new invention could help to change that bitter future.Researchers from George Washington University have invented a solar-powered process that could convert carbon dioxide pollution into carbon residue,...
Finding Common Flaws In Climate Change Denial Research
A contrarian is defined as "one who takes an opposing view." When trying to denounce the idea of climate change, contrarians often refer to Galileo Galilei, a famed astronomer who often rejected the consensus.Today, 97 percent of experts have reached a...
New Dietary Guidelines Ask Americans to Start Thinking of the Environment
The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee has issued its latest recommendations, with some coming as a surprise to many consumers. For the first time the committee is urging Americans to consider "the impact of food production, processing, and consumption ...
Multiple Oil Spills in Montana Impact Residents and Politics
Montana is no stranger to large oil spills. In July 2011, an oil pipeline burst and poured 63,000 gallons of crude oil into the Yellowstone River. The same thing happened in January when another pipeline burst beneath the Yellowstone River and 50,000 gallo...