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Losing Earth: New York Times Special Feature

August 1, 2018by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Climate Change could have been stopped! The New York Times Magazine this week presents a two-part special feature  on the 10-year period (1979 to 1989) when“we came very close to […]

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Climate change, Disasters, Environment, Photography, Sustainability, Weather
People walk through flood waters of West Houston on Sunday August 27, 2017. Thomas B. Shea Getty Images

Houston Catastrophe: Prediction Becomes Fact

August 30, 2017by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Just a month before Hurricane Harvey – now a tropical storm — devastated the Houston/Galveston coastal region, moving on to Louisiana– the Union of Concerned Scientists issued When Rising Seas Hit […]

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Cities, Climate change, Disasters, Environment, Oceans, Rising Waters, Rivers, Sustainability, Weather
Hurricane Harvey from space. Courtesy of NOAA

Hell and High Water Predicted Houston Disaster

August 28, 2017by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

A Peabody-award-winning report, Hell and High Water,  on how Texas, and the Houston area in particular, might suffer catastrophic hurricane damage in a future storm, was made public in March […]

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Cities, Climate change, Environment, Netherlands, Rising Waters, Sustainability, Water, Weather
Solar eclipse progression. Courtesy of Morefield

Solar Eclipse Aug 21 2017

August 21, 2017by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

It’s showtime! The sun and moon are putting on a spectacle today with an audience of hundreds of millions live viewers – and millions more online and watching the solar […]

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Anniversaries, Energy, Environment, News, Science, Solar energy, Weather
Swan Bridge and waterfront Rotterdam. (Bobbie Faul-Zeitler CC 3.0)

Rotterdam and Resilience: Dutch Know-How

June 19, 2017by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

  Michael Kimmelman’s front page story Dutch Face Rising Seas in the New York Times is a must-read for anyone concerned about the rising threat to US coasts, coastal cities, […]

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Cities, Climate change, Europe, Green Practices, Netherlands, Rising Waters, Sustainability, Urban design, Water, Weather

Paris Climate Agreement – Read and Weep

June 2, 2017by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

U.S. pulls out of the Paris Climate Agreement two days after causing a kerfuffle (a real word!) with the invented word covfefe. Here’s what Pulitzer-Prize-winning New Yorker contributor Elizabeth Kolbert has to […]

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Biodiversity, Climate change, Conservation, Endangered species, Energy, Environment, Extinction, News, Opinions, Rising Waters, Science, Sustainability, Weather
Twelve Apostles, Australia. Photo by Pete Seaward for Lovely Planet.

Books Summer ’16: Ten You’ll Like

June 27, 2016by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Welcome Summer –– and the books that beckon us to sit in a comfortable chair, dream, explore other places and other worlds.  This month’s selection is the first of several […]

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Biodiversity, Books, History, Science, Travel, Weather
Sunset at Shenandoah(Bobbie Faul-Zeitler, (CC 3.0)

Hot, Hot, Hot: A Climate Editorial

August 19, 2015by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Unrelenting heat, drought, and lack of potable water are more likely than insurgents and militant attacks to bring down civil society in the Middle East. So says New York Times […]

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Climate change, Environment, Extinction, Opinions, Sustainability, Water, Weather
Spruce and larch are the woods used to make the beautiful swooping roof design of the Pompidou Centre Metz (France). Courtesy of the Pompidou Centre

Shigeru Ban: Architect-Humanitarian

August 14, 2014by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

The talented, globe-trotting architect Shigeru Ban has created a unique design practice: dwellings of elegance and simplicity for the wealthy and ingenious public buildings (the beautiful Pompidou Centre-Metz France (2011) […]

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Architecture, Art & Design, Museums, Weather
Black carbon shrouds the globe Credit NOAA

National Climate Assessment: Read/Download !

May 7, 2014by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

If there is one statement to remember from the just-released National Climate Assessment, it is this: “Evidence of climate change appears in every region [of the US] and impacts are […]

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Biodiversity, Climate change, Environment, Water, Weather

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