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Bringing back natural water filters in Maryland and beyond
This article talks about how Maryland is the latest state to take steps toward bringing back freshwater mussels to filter water.
Under the waters of the Patapsco River in Maryland, new life is forming.
The Maryland Department of Natural Resources has planted freshwater mussels into the river in hopes […]
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Ravenous for Meat, China Faces a Climate Quandary
This article discusses China’s meat addiction and its impact on climate change. On the whole, the country consumes 28 percent of the world’s meat — twice as much as the United States. And that figure is only set to increase.
At the center of the table in a modest, high-rise apartment […]
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This Summer’s Heat Wave Has Fueled Natural Disasters Around the World.
This article discusses how climate change is causing disasters across the planet.
This has been a summer of soaring temperatures and catastrophic fires. It has been so hot all over the world that even the Arctic is getting scorched: Temperatures in Deadhorse, Alaska, which is along the Arctic Coast, reached 80 degrees Wednesday—the […]
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Study: Fish Will Start Losing Sense of Smell as Carbon Dioxide Levels Rise
This article discusses the impact climate change is having on fish.
Just as humans rely on their sense of smell to detect suitable food and habitats, avoid danger, and find potential mates, so do fish — only instead of sniffing scent molecules floating through the air, they use […]
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Study: warm water lowers nutritional value of fish and squid
This article discusses how the warming planet will impact fish.
The nutritional value of fish and squid deteriorates during warm water events, a new study has revealed.
A research team that studied gannets at Farewell Spit’s internationally renowned bird sanctuary for four years has made a surprising new discovery, which may hold implications for our […]
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Ocean Agency Suggests Opening Marine Monuments To Commercial Fishing
This article discusses another attempt by the Trump administration to gut environmental laws, this time, those protecting ocean habitat.
An internal document suggests the nation’s leading ocean science agency is planning to gut protections for America’s marine national monuments, opening millions of acres of federal water to commercial fishing as […]
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Marine plastic: Hundreds of fragments in dead seabirds
This article discusses the impact that plastic is having on marine life. That impacts our food.
New footage of the devastating impact of plastic pollution on wildlife has been captured by a BBC team.
Seabirds are starving to death on the remote Lord Howe Island, a crew filming for the […]
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Former Starbucks CEO: Climate change threatens your cup of coffee
This article discusses climate change and coffee – it’s not good.
The former CEO of Starbucks worries climate change could spell trouble for your regular cup of coffee.
In an interview with Time magazine, Howard Schultz said climate change ranks among the coffee giant’s […]
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Studies: Beef: America’s dinner and a juicy climate controversy
This article discusses the impact the beef industry is having on climate change.
Beef is an American food icon. It’s also the biggest culinary culprit when it comes to greenhouse gas emissions.
Why it matters: California startups are increasingly targeting carnivores with plant burgers so beef-like they bleed, as […]
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The Ocean Is Getting More Acidic—What That Actually Means
This article discusses the changes affecting our oceans because of climate change. Thanks to carbon emissions, the ocean is changing, and that is putting a whole host of marine organisms at risk. These scientists are on the front lines.
Grace Saba steadies herself on the back […]
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