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Dire glimpses of what pollution doing in Bangladesh
Posted by Wired: None Given on October 14th, 2015
Wired: Bangladesh is dominated by a vast river delta of rich, fertile and flat land no more than 40 feet above sea level. That makes it especially susceptible to climate change. Scientists estimate that rising sea levels will claim as much as 17 percent of the country by 2050, displacing as many as 18 million people.
Bangladeshi photojournalist Probal Rashid was born in the rice-growing district of Gazipur in 1979, and has seen this threat first-hand. He`s made it his mission to document the threat industrialization,...
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Congress’ attack on geosciences is a dangerous game
Posted by Wired: None Given on May 17th, 2015
Wired: The current U.S. Congress is trying desperately to brush science they don’t agree with under the rug. It’s a dangerous game where they are willing to risk the safety of the country because of their misguided ideological views on climate change (backed by powerful and wealthy donors) and end up putting the future of the country in danger by not only cutting funding to the Geosciences, but by portraying the field as outside the “core” and “uard” sciences. This Cold War against the study of the Earth...
How Global Warming Helped Cause the Syrian War
Posted by Wired: None Given on March 3rd, 2015
Wired: The bloody conflict in Syria--which enters its fifth year this month--has killed almost 200,000 people, created 3.2 million refugees, and given rise to the murderous extremist group known as the Islamic State. The roots of the civil war extend deep into Syria’s political and socioeconomic structures. But another cause turns out to be global warming.
When violence erupted in Syria during the Arab Spring in 2011, the country had been mired in a three-year drought--its worst in recorded history....
Climate Change May Have Impacted Half of 2012’s Extreme Weather
Posted by Wired: None Given on September 6th, 2013
Wired: 2012 was a rough year around the globe, and not for any of the Planet X/Mayan calendar doomsday reasons people feared. Instead, it was a year of extreme weather: drought and heat waves in the United States; record rainfall in the United Kingdom; unusually heavy rains in Kenya, Somalia, Japan, and Australia; drought in Spain; floods in China. And of course there was Superstorm Sandy.
One of the first questions asked in the wake of such an extreme weather event is: “Is this due to climate change?”...
Climate Change Real & Gorgeous
Posted by Wired: None Given on December 29th, 2012
Wired: When "Chasing Ice" finished, my 10-year-old son, sitting next to me in the almost empty theater, said, "That was sobering." He was right: Sobering, but also beautiful and inspiring.
"Chasing Ice" documents both the earth`s current warming and one man`s obsessive efforts to show that warming in terms everyone can understand: visual, immediate, dramatic. National Geographic photographer James Balog says he was a bit of a climate skeptic himself until he took an assignment in 2005 and 2006 photographing...