UST’s John Abraham talks about latest findings: that the oceans are warming faster than thought
A long-lived conundrum, over disparity between measurements and climate models, is resolved in modeling’s favor.
Ron Meador
Ron Meador is a veteran journalist whose last decade in a 25-year stint at the Star Tribune involved writing editorials and columns with environment, energy and science subjects as his major concentration.
It turns out that, amid a whole lot of terrible, 2018 brought some good news for the environment, too
Without a doubt, consensus was strongest on various measures of progress toward a renewably powered world during 2018.
Of Teflon and A-bombs, Chicago’s buried river and other great reads
Three tales of things buried beneath the earth.
5 best Earth Journal subjects of 2018
From climate change’s potential to bring social collapse to ideas on why feathered dinosaurs survived.
Deborah Swackhamer on the long-term risk of tainting the science behind federal policy
The so-called “transparency rule” would exclude all epidemiology research from use in setting clean-air standards.
Minnesota’s Deborah Swackhamer is honored for speaking out on meddling at EPA
MIT lists the scientist in its 2018 Disobedience Awards, along with founders of #MeToo movement.
Meet some of our oddest, oldest fishes — as they rapidly approach extinction
Some of the world’s most evolutionarily unique fishes are also among its most imperiled, with illegal harvest and unintended harvest as key pressures.
How many senses do plants employ? More than animals or people, it seems
If this strikes you as interesting (or preposterous), you might spend a little time with Stefano Mancuso’s slim and engaging book, “Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence.”
Great reads on an overlooked megafire, bird smuggling, Yellowstone’s climate
Did you know that wildlife smuggling is the world’s fourth-largest sector of illicit trade, after drugs, human trafficking and counterfeit goods?
Scenes from a battleground: California struggles in the new era of megafire
When Gov. Jerry Brown toured Paradise the other day and said, sincerely, that it looked “like a war zone,” he elevated a throwaway line to piercing truth.
It’s hard to find much of a ‘green wave’ in this year’s voting on ballot initiatives
People tend to vote for more parks, if the cost isn’t too high. Progress on mining, energy or climate is harder.
A look back at the trading of favors that drives Trump’s anti-environment agenda
Have you heard the sleazy tale about “glider trucks,” shady campaign contributions, and a tiny business interest’s big gift from Donald Trump and his Environmental Protection Agency?
Farming as if nature still mattered: a new book offers encouraging examples
Meet some ‘ecological agrarians,’ who’ve never separated the natural world from food production.
A new way of seeing species extinction, and humans’ impact on other mammals
Some species count more than others in our ‘evolutionary history’ — should we save them first?
New outlook on global warming: Best prepare for social collapse, and soon
Key trends are accelerating, with major catastrophes in less than 10 years, a British sustainability expert says.
Great reads on algal poison factories, American climate refugees, and more
A Minnesota transplant in a South Carolina lab untangles natural toxins more deadly than sarin gas.
Climate has national parks heating up, drying out faster than the rest of U.S.
Among the threatened namesake features: the alpine ice sheets of Glacier National Park, the giant yuccas at Joshua Tree.
A terrific book on Great Lakes water conflicts gets a timely, thorough update
Much has happened in the first decade of an eight-state compact, but coy grabs and secretive practices haven’t ceased.
Edible urban weeds found to be safe, healthful, abundant — and they’re free
Can it really be safe to forage for leafy greens that grew in a stew of industrial pollution? Yep.
Dinosaur extinction, wolf restoration, gorillas in decline: a few great reads
Renegade researchers, “the nastiest feud in science,” and how people compete with apes for water in Rwanda’s changing climate.
