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November 23, 2017 sees the publication of Ecology, Conservation and Management of Wild Pigs and Peccaries by Mario Melletti and Erik Meijaard. In this post the authors bring to light the importance of these often-overlooked species.
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Since 2007, global efforts to fight climate change have included measures intended to reducing carbon emissions from deforestation, forest degradation, and support the sustainable conservation of forest carbon stocks in developing countries. An international mechanism known as REDD+ seeks to channel climate finance from North to South in order to shift incentives away from activities […]
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This summer I worked on the Greenland ice sheet, part of a scientific experiment to study surface melting and its contribution to Greenland’s accelerating ice losses. By virtue of its size, elevation and currently frozen state, Greenland has the potential to cause large and rapid increases to sea level as it melts. When I returned, […]
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Timothy H. Dixon author of Curbing Catastrophe is a Professor of Geosciences at the University of South Florida, Tampa. In his newest article Tim considers a geological time scale to discuss if we can predict when the world will see a meteoric rise in sea level, or if we are already witnessing the beginning of this rise
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Are Recent Urban Floods Related to Global Warming? In early May of this year (2017) severe flooding hit parts of the Canadian province of Quebec and adjacent US states of New York and Vermont. A short answer to the title’s question is “Probably” A short answer to the title’s question is “Probably – warmer air […]
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Timothy H. Dixon author of Curbing Catastrophe is a Professor of Geosciences at the University of South Florida. In his new article he considers the future threat of over-population, the predictions that could have been and presents ideas for an optimistic move forward.
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Christopher Wright and Daniel Nyberg, authors of Climate Change, Capitalism and Corporations: Processes of Creative Self-Destruction, explore how climate change now represents an existential crisis.
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On April 22 we march across the globe to celebrate and affirm the reality of our senses, the truth of our observations, and the beauty of our complicated world.
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