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Why do we rebuild our beaches, homes, and roads close to the shoreline only to see them washed away time and time again? Orrin H. Pilkey, emeritus professor of Earth Sciences at Duke University and author of The World’s Beaches, takes on this controversial subject in a recent op-ed for the New York Times. Pilkey [more...]  In a column for the Atlantic, Paul Epstein, coauthor with Dan Ferber of Changing Planet, Changing Health: How the Climate Crisis Threatens Our Health and What We Can Do about It, investigates the connections between climate change and the intensity of this spring’s tornado season. The piece is perhaps one of the most measured, straightforward [more...] One of our most anticipated titles for Spring, Changing Planet, Changing Health is an eye-opening book that looks at the ways climate change is altering patterns of disease. It’s scary—and pressing—stuff. Before reading this book, I had no idea that since 1976, the planet has given rise to 40 new diseases. Or that every year, [more...] Guest Post by Gary Braasch In 2005, my interest in documenting climate change took me farther from my Oregon home than I had been for many years. With funds from a grant and a book advance from University of California Press, I was able to schedule trips to some of the most important but remote [more...] Julian Cribb delivers a shocking report on the future of food security in this podcast for Radio Ecoshock. Cribb is an award-winning journalist and science writer and the author of The Coming Famine: The Global Food Crisis and What We Can Do to Avoid It. He says people are reluctant to understand population growth, but [more...] Starting on December 7, world leaders will gather in Copenhagen for the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference. With the Copenhagen summit on the horizon, “Climate Change and Our World“, an exhibit of Gary Braasch’s striking photographs, opened November 18 at the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, D.C. (exhibit pictured above). [more...] By Gary Braasch, © June 18, 2009. Global climate change impacts across the United States are spelled out with renewed authority in a report released June 16 by the federal government. It marks the strongest and clearest statement from Washington that global warming’s effects are being felt over broad regions of the nation. [more...] While attending the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Nairobi last week, author Tom Downing spoke about The Atlas of Climate Change, which he coauthored with Kirstin Dow. This meeting, being held through November 17, is the second of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol. Downing discussed threats to coastal areas and [more...] |
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