as traffic jams lead to an increase in impolite and dangerous behavior. It also comes at a cost to economies in the form of lost working hours, causes inconvenience to drivers with extra travel time and creates an unnecessary toll on the environment. Hence, from a road safety...
In order to step into the next century, first we must get through the next few years. Carbon dioxide takes decades to fully express potential for heating. Going forward, actions must abide by science, and repair the compounded toll of carbon interests. And yet we foolishly extend risk when ...
Moving to Michigan was interesting. I basically had started work, and lived out of my car for a couple of weeks. I AirBNBed a room nearby for ~$30 a night (before my first paycheck, that was a lot of money), and looked at apartments during lunch, after work, and on weekends. In...
Besides, coastal ambivalence had a heavy emotional toll. Being “heterocoastal” (as Dunne once described it, refusing to be “bi-anything”) was “too confusing,” Didion said, “it created an artificial rhythm in our life.” Then, a year ago January, the couple found themselves unexpectedl...
.Numbers that large can be hard to grasp, but 150 million is the equivalent of 25 Holocausts. It is three times the size of the death toll of the Great Leap Forward – the largest nonmilitary death toll humanity has ever produced. It is more than twice the greatest death toll of any...
6. Conclusions—Ways Forward The new GEO-Wetlands initiative facilitates cooperation between different projects under the common goal of improving the mapping, monitoring and assessment of global wetland extent, status and trends. Close cooperation between projects and teams from different regions and ...