Tag: nature

What frightens me about the climate crisis is we don’t know how bad things really are

Roger Harrabin Over the past few decades, climate scientists have made huge strides in understanding the future climate. But after recent weeks of extreme heat and devastating floods it’s clear that, although climate models have provided good information about overall rising temperatures, they can’t be sure what level of destruction each notch on the thermometer… Read More What frightens me about the climate crisis is we don’t know how bad things really are

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Flare

A poem by Mary Oliver (b 1935) 1. Welcome to the silly, comforting poem. It is not the sunrise,which is a red rinse,which is flaring all over the eastern sky; it is not the rain falling out of the purse of God; it is not the blue helmet of the sky afterward, or the trees,… Read More Flare

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My Iceland

I believe in the life of the grasses and spring without end — Steinunn Sigurdardóttir NB: Having just visited this surreal land, sitting atop the continental rift line separating the American and Eurasian tectonic plates, whose volcanoes are erupting as we speak, and whose northern coast sits aside the Arctic Circle, I can only wonder… Read More My Iceland

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With our food systems on the verge of collapse, it’s the plutocrats v life on Earth

George Monbiot According to Google’s news search, the media has run more than 10,000 stories this year about Phillip Schofield, the British television presenter who resigned over an affair with a younger colleague. Google also records a global total of five news stories about a scientific paper published last week, showing that the chances of simultaneous crop… Read More With our food systems on the verge of collapse, it’s the plutocrats v life on Earth

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Why the world’s largest lakes are shrinking dramatically

Laura Paddison, CNN More than half of the world’s largest lakes and reservoirs have lost significant amounts of water over the last three decades, according to a new study, which pins the blame largely on climate change and excessive water use. Roughly one-quarter of the world’s population lives in the basin of a drying lake, according to the study… Read More Why the world’s largest lakes are shrinking dramatically

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Look up, listen, and be very concerned. Birds are vanishing – and their crisis is our crisis

Mark Cocker Have we time enough and opportunity, we can attune ourselves to one of the greatest events of every April morning on our planet, since birdsong unfolds across all Eurasia and North America as daylight processes over those lands too. Think of it as the Earth rejoicing at the sun’s cyclical return. Mistle thrush… Read More Look up, listen, and be very concerned. Birds are vanishing – and their crisis is our crisis

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