You can ease your anxiety by taking some concrete steps toward a cleaner planet. Even small actions can make a big impact, so here are five ideas from In Pure Spirit to get you started.
ARCHIVE NEXUS // CLIMATE CHANGE
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Does this animation from NASA show the Earth dying?
There’s controversy around this video. Released by NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies the visual shows climate change over 60 years. You may watch this animation and conclude that it shows some dramatic climate change. Not so, say sceptics, who argue that six decades isn’t long enough to have any meaning in the climate context. […]
Exploding iceberg showers tourists with ice shards
A boat tour by Wilhemina Bay in Antarctica took an interesting turn when a nearby iceberg exploded causing shards of ice to fly towards the tourists. The video below is loud, watch your speakers but certainly listen as the guide warns that the fear is these icebergs wouldn’t last one more year. One tourist points […]
WWF Moths: Earth Hour
At 8:30pm on March 26th we’re turning out lights off for Earth Hour. This isn’t the first time the globe has had an Earth Hour. You should know about it by now. But what if you don’t know about it? What if you’re the only one who doesn’t turn the lights off at 8:30 in […]
40 million years later and King Crabs invade Antarctica
Evolutionary biologist Sven Thatje has made the news with his discovery that King Crabs are returning to Antarctic waters. I say “returning” but it’s been a long while since the King Crab last stalked in these waters. Scientists calculate that it’s been some 40 million years since the King Crab was able to survive in […]
American Congress denies climate change exists
Each and every Republicanin the House Energy and Commerce Committee has voted that the Earth is not warming. This is an American political collective, part of Congress, that works to line up US lawmaking. Currently the Committee had been working on the Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011. The Act would bar the Enviormental Protection […]
Colourful Lives: Lizzie Gillett
10:10 is an organisataion that works with companies, schools and people to get them to reduce their carbon emissions by 10%. I can’t quite untangle the people involved as the 10:10 website says it was founded by Franny Amstrong who was the director of the climate change blockbuster The Age of Stupid. They also work […]
