Weather / Climate
Hurricane Irma Live Webcams Where You Can Watch
Hurricane Irma Live Webcams Hurricane Irma is forecasted to make landfall on the southern tip of the Florida peninsula, with the eye of the Category 4 storm expected to pass over the Florida Keys sometime early Sunday (Sept. 10). We ...
Lack of snow = depression
Moscow No snow: In 2016, Russian health authorities feared that a rare lack of snowfall could cause a wave of depression across the country. It was the warmest December in Russia since 1870, and much of the country didn't seen ...
Pope Francis’ Revolution To Save Earth’s Ecosystem
Pope Francis' climate encyclical went well beyond any sermons, delving into fields familiar to any Catholic, such as Scripture and theology, but also wandering into sociology, politics, urban planning, economics, globalization, biology and other areas of scientific research. It's main ...
The environmental costs of a Thanksgiving meal
It’s easy to romanticize the 1621 coming-together of the Wampanoag tribe with the struggling European settlers, which many people now view as the original Thanksgiving. From an environmental perspective, the nostalgic urge is stronger still. The carbon footprint of the ...
Pope Francis’ Tough Stance On Climate Change
In 2015, Pope Francis, the leader the Catholic Church, issued the first-ever comprehensive set of Vatican teachings on climate change, in the form of an encyclical—or "papal letter"—sent to churches worldwide. Plans also include personally lobbying for climate action action ...
Climate encyclical sent strong moral message to the world
Lima, Peru A look back on Pope Francis' climate encyclical on ecology and climate shows that it sent a strong moral message -- a message that made some readers uncomfortable, some observers said. Before the encyclical, Archbishop Pedro Barreto Jimeno ...
2015 Recorded As Earth’s Hottest Year
It's not like we really needed to be told again that our planet is getting warmer.... But IT IS!!! Both NASA and NOAA have independently concluded that Earth's surface temperatures in 2015 were higher than any previous year in recorded ...
