King tides at Pier 14 in San Francisco now put sea water on the pier surface and nearby street. Photo: Dave Rauenbuehler (CC license) From CBS local news website: ‘The city attorneys of San Francisco and Oakland on Wednesday announced they are filing civil...
An aerial view shows extensive flooding from Harvey in a residential area in Southeast Texas, Aug. 31, 2017. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Daniel J. Martinez For many days in recent weeks, it wasn’t possible to see across the San Francisco Bay because...
Last week, a peer-reviewed study was published by two Harvard researchers supporting the claim that Exxon knew long ago that climate change is real and caused by human activity, but issued public communications raising strong doubts about those findings, in spite of...
Effective August 21, 2017, President Trump’s NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) has disbanded the main Federal advisory group charged with informing and updating US public policy to address on-going scientific data being gathered on the...
Air pollution sullies the London skyline. Poor air quality, much of it a result of pollution from vehicles, is estimated to cause between 23,000 and 40,000 deaths nationwide every year. Image: Stu Mayhew (CC 2.0 license) An increasing number of European countries,...
