A wrap-up of enviro-news, including verrry bad news about Nor Cal kelp forests.
Worst case scenario for Earth in 2050. From book published in 2020.
Summary report on the Pacific Ocean heating event of 2015-6. Report issued in 2020.
Climate change killing off ocean fish.
2019 report on pollution on Treasure Island. Thanks, U.S. Navy.
In a recent Guardian an article traces the changes made in California’s Silicon Valley since the days of the Ohlone, who got there before the Spanish Empire and their vicious missionaries who came to “convert” and enslave the locals. This piece does describe the epidemics that nearly wiped out the Indian population. It does not disclose that even before Europeans and their guns arrived, the Indians had more slowly done great damage to the native wildlife. Why did Europeans in 18th and 19th Century find a wildlife paradise when they arrived in the Bay Area? European diseases arrived first and the Indian population had decreased markedly, removing alpha predators, allowing ducks and deer and elk populations to soar.
Scallops, nanoplastics and what we have done to our planet.
What climate change has already done…destruction and deaths.
The sixth mass extinction now underway. Over 80% of mammals killed by people.
Climate change will make disease and traffic accidents…worse.
Curse of the introduced spartina–a video tour.
August, 2018: California firefighters on front lines of battle with climate change.
San Francisco is a disaster waiting to happen…according to scientists.
July, 2018: Northern Hemisphere overheated.
How we need to get beyond plastics. So old and out-dated and dangerous.
The ecological woes of the Central Valley; slumping land, arsenic in the water.
Why plant restoration should be done in stages.
How climate change is killing off trees around the globe, including California’s pines.
How robotic tech will alter the food poison industry. Zap, not spray away. Why not lasers? I ask? Or super-heated steam?
National Park Service quietly releases report on climate change and sea level rising.
Two pieces in “Sierra Magazine” on effects and economics of climate change: https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2018-3-may-june/feature/the-case-for-climate-reparations
California has sick and dying Brown Pelicans.
Humans have been destroying other species for a long time.
How cities’ artificial environments speed up wildlife evolution.
New York City joins SF’s lawsuit against fossil fuel companies over climate change.
Scientists look at what climate change could do to California agriculture.
Modern agriculture messes with environment; nature strikes back in Argentina.
Up to one-third of American wildlife species may be headed to extinction.
Heavy use of antibiotics, polluting planet and helping resistant microbes evolve faster. Will this bring the demise of people?
Washington State has banned all Atlantic salmon farms in that state. That follows an accidental but apparently careless release of Atlantic salmon into the wild when netting around a salmon farm broke in 2017.
San Francisco and Oakland vs. five big fossil fuel companies…in climate change lawsuit.
Bay Area biologist, Paul Ehrlich, predicts over-population will destroy civilization.
The heat blob diminishes in the Pacific Northwest.
Pacific plastic pollution worse than earlier estimated.
What’s killing starfish–the science.
San Francisco’s endangered manzanita.
Hot times in the Arctic…bad news for polar bears, coastal cities and life in general.
Drying earth leads to big crack in Arizona’s skin.
NOAA’s 2017 technical report on projected sea level rise in US.
Dutch man comes up with plant to remove plastic pollution from the oceans. We need to hurry because most seabirds on the planet are already carrying plastic inside them. If Bill Gates puts enough of his money behind the clean-up, it could be good news. We need some.
Plastic is just another bad thing we humans are doing to coral reefs.
The ozone layer in the atmosphere is not recovering over cities…likely due to man-made chemicals. One more self-destructive move by people against themselves.
Capetown dried up due to climate change.
Joys of fossil fuels: gas well explosion in Oklahoma.
2017 one of the three hottest years on record. Other two: 2015 and 2016. Get it?
Salmon killing ag chemical protected by Trump Regime.
Poison used by non-organic pot farms threatens wildlife. I point in my book that poisoning rats in Golden Gate Park killed off the Great Horned Owls and it took them a decade to return.
Noise pollution hard on birds as well as humans.
How animals cope with extreme heat–some die.
Story on the size of 2017’s climate related disasters.
Graphic showing increasing costs of climate change influenced disasters. How long before our lifestyle drives this nation broke?
Leaning tower of San Francisco (Millennium) cited for fire risk.
Modern technology and economy killing the Earth’s oceans.
Oregon sues Monsanto over PCBs, decades after they were banned.
Is there a population problem on earth or is that a silly worry?
Greenland’s melting ice and coastal cities’ future.
Don’t flush those drugs down the toilet or put ’em in the sink or the landfill.
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