Every year, the World Meteorological Organization, or WMO, tracks a list of key climate indicators – including the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the Earth’s temperature – to assess how global warming is progressing. In their latest report, released last Sunday, the authors decided to include a new dimension: the imbalance of … Read more
In Park City, Utah, skiers could find blades of grass poking through the slopes all winter long – a wonderful sign of a season that never came. Now, after one of the warmest winters on record, much of the West is entering spring with record low snowfall and the first heat wave that has pushed … Read more
In the past five years, indigenous agriculture has received academic attention as an alternative, albeit on a smaller scale, to modern agricultural systems. Research has shown that some traditional agricultural practices – such as growing corn, beans and squash together – protect soil health, reduce biodiversity loss, and support indigenous knowledge, known as traditional ecological … Read more