Archive for August, 2007
Forward to School, Not Back: Confronting Climate Change
With increasing climate change awareness rippling through our society, chances are your child is already thinking about and discussing it with friends. A UK survey of 1,150 seven to eleven year olds found that half felt anxious about global warming and in many cases to the point of losing sleep.
Dirge for a Lonely Planet: The Sixth Mass Extinction
The normal rate of extinction is about one species every four years. Today it is about one species every ten minutes. And many of the ones that are still hanging on are not doing well. From honey bees to Atlantic salmon to black rhinos, Earth’s menagerie is faced on all sides by an increasingly uninhabitable world.
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