Climate Anxiety: Navigating a Doomed World
Climate anxiety occurs when one feels fear and worry of the consequences of climate change. To an extent, I believe that everyone experiences this lurking fear on some level. When you turn on the news you see the latest devastating wildfire, open instagram and you will see your friends sharing stories of sea animals being […]
Giraffe
Species in Peril: GIRAFFES The tallest land animal on the planet These Cats are Fast! The cheetah is the world’s fastest land mammal. With acceleration that would leave most automobiles in the dust, a cheetah can go from 0 to 60 miles an hour in only three seconds. These big cats are quite nimble at […]
The Climate Crisis: A Human Rights Issue.
When we talk about climate change, it often provokes conversation about the future and what it will look like. There’s talk of models and clocks and predictions. Much of the focus is on how much we really need to care and how much change we need to make. How many toxins can we pump into […]
Glaciers around the world are melting. Why should we care?
A Melting Planet: glacier regression and rising sea levels Trift Glacier, Switzerland. Left (2006), Right (2015). Photo by Extreme Ice Survey Glaciers around the world are melting. Why should we care? Well, let’s first take a look at the United States. Almost 40% of our population lives in a coastal area. That means 40% of […]
Louisiana wetlands are disappearing and it’s impacting wildlife
Every hour, we lose about a football field of Louisiana Wetlands to the ocean. This loss is caused by a combination of factors, some natural and some man-made, and is leading to an ongoing environmental crisis that is already having extreme ramifications on not only native species but also human populations living in the area. Unchecked, […]
Why it’s Critical to Save the World’s Last Wild Places
In science, it’s rare that a new idea comes along that stops people in their tracks. For ecologists, this has just happened, in a paper that found that species living in wild places have more genetic diversity than the same species living in areas dominated by people. Wilderness areas have shrunk by a tenth globally […]