220 square miles of the Arctic ice shelf broke off and fell into the ocean today. A larger piece equivalent in size to half of Scotland is “hanging by a thread”:

“Even though they seem far away, changes in the polar regions could have an impact on both hemispheres, with sea level rise and changes […]

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In a government-supported rush to supply the ethanol industry, US corn growers may be hastening the large-scale destruction of life in the Gulf of Mexico.
The “dead zone”–over 7,000 square miles and growing–begins as nitrogen fertilizer in US Midwest fields. The fertilizer runoff makes its way into the Mississippi river, which dumps effluent directly into the […]

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