Tag Archives: ClimateCrisis

[ad_1] The Prince’s Countryside Fund has awarded more than £120,000 to 62 community-led projects dealing with the impact of coronavirus across the UK. The successful applicants are tackling Covid-19 in a number of ways – from grocery, hot meal, and prescription delivery in remote areas, to setting up community shops …

[ad_1] ???? URBAN VEGETABLE GARDEN ???? Having a vegetable garden in the city, especially in Turin, is really difficult, but not impossible! My grandfather has always grown every type of vegetable in his garden and treats every seedling like a son. For some years now my cousin and I have …

[ad_1] From the sweet melody of the song sparrow to the emergence of groundhogs from their burrows, one of the most exciting parts of the spring season is watching the natural world reawaken and blossom to life before our eyes. These eleven species, according to WWF-Canada’s urban biodiversity specialist Steve …

[ad_1] In normal times, you’d find Greenpeace groups meeting in pubs, cafes or community centres across the country each month, discussing campaigns and making plans. But last month, groups around the country hosted their first-ever online meetings. We asked Zoe, a first-time Greenpeace volunteer from Dundee, and Jess, a returning …

[ad_1] As the death toll from the coronavirus continues to climb and millions find themselves struggling to pay bills amid growing economic uncertainty, a new danger may be buzzing on the horizon. The New York Times reported Saturday that the insects, actually called Asian giant hornets, could establish themselves in the …

[ad_1] It is not often you meet a scientist breathless with excitement about their new findings. But it happened to me last September at the National Institute for Space Research in the Brazilian research city of Sao Jose dos Campos. Atmospheric chemist Luciana Gatti was rushing to tell her colleagues …

[ad_1] NASA satellites have provided more data than ever before on what has been happening to Antarctica and Greenland’s ice over the past 16 years with dire, if not entirely unexpected, findings. Both polar ice sheets are losing billions of tonnes of ice every year and adding to sea-level rise. The results revealed that although …

[ad_1] We are living in a time unlike any other. The rhythm of life is shifting; the frenzied speeds of daily activities and the productive flows that propel and accelerate entire societies have been intercepted by the global reach of the deadly coronavirus pandemic. I write from Toronto, Canada, where this has been …

[ad_1] How Mangos Got Me Hooked on Climate Change by Juliana Vélez Duque |May 1, 2020 One of the mango trees that bore fruit in the mountain farm in Porce, Colombia. Source: Juliana Vélez Duque Climate and Society 2020 students are blogging about topics that interest them for Applications in Climate …

[ad_1] ???????? EIGHTH ONLINE STRIKE FOR THE CLIMATE ???????? Today I want to talk about plastic. The so-called Pacific Trash Vortex or Great Pacific Garbage Patch has formed in the middle of the Pacific Ocean in recent years. Basically it is a huge accumulation of floating garbage (mainly composed of …