Outdoor cats (house pets as well as feral cats) are by far the largest cause of human-related mortality in North American birds. And while these data are estimates, cat predation is among the most carefully studied of all of these causes, so the number of birds killed by cats is one o...
That means that human influence on the climate made those events at least two to 10 times more likely to happen. According to ECCC, prolonged heat waves are a "major contributor" to more intense wildfires across Canada. The2023 wildfires...
President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday sarcastically thanked President Joe Biden for leaving him “no water” in fire hydrants amid devastating wildfires in Los Angeles, and “no money” in the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). He posted on Truth Social, “NO WATER IN THE FIRE HYDR...
In my experience, “all the above” is used by pro-nukes; and likely coined by them. The rationale seems to be that “we agree with the greens” (many nukes were greens) that Fossil Fool is EVIL. So pro-nuke greens believed they could ally themselves with RE-ene...
For some reason – drought or disease or wildfires – the leaf supply of our genetic forebears dried up, and they were thrust out onto the savannah with no in-born means of survival. Any other species would have gone extinct, but somehow the hominids who ultimately became Homo sapiens ...
American Red Cross, for example, has used the micromessaging blog to get information out ever since the California wildfires in 2007. Since Hurricane Katrina, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which had more than 12,000 follo...
Moore, Andrew, “Climate Change is Making Wildfires Worse – Here’s How”,NC State University, College of Natural Resources News, August 29, 2022. 37. “Our Risk of Infectious Diseases Is Increasing Because of Climate Change”,CDC, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases,...
"As theplanet continues to warm, we experience changes in the strength and frequency of extreme weather events. Human activities, mainlygreenhouse gas emissions, are causing more extreme heat events, which can drive wildfires and drought, less extrem...
"As theplanet continues to warm, we experience changes in the strength and frequency of extreme weather events. Human activities, mainlygreenhouse gas emissions, are causing more extreme heat events, which can drive wildfires and drought, less ext...
"As theplanet continues to warm, we experience changes in the strength and frequency of extreme weather events. Human activities, mainlygreenhouse gas emissions, are causing more extreme heat events, which can drive wildfires and drought, less extreme cold, shor...