Rotterdam and Resilience: Dutch Know-How
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, […]
Category Archives: Weather
Paris Climate Agreement – Read and Weep
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 […]
Books Summer ’16: Ten You’ll Like
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 […]
Hot, Hot, Hot: A Climate Editorial
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 […]
Shigeru Ban: Architect-Humanitarian
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) […]
National Climate Assessment: Read/Download !
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 […]
Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability
“The world has to adapt – and to mitigate,” so says Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Climate Change 2014, the IPCC Working Group II Contribution […]
Snow On: Birds Arriving
It’s snowing like mad in the Washington DC area – birds arriving in droves despite blustery winds – for suet, cracked corn, black sunflower seeds, millet and corn. Who knew […]
Winter Be Gone! Our Spring Lineup
February 28 is the end of “meterological winter” according to our weather forecasters. Who told the planet? At least 100 million people in the US are bracing for another round […]
Polar Vortex Unveiled
Beautiful but deadly. Here’s what a polar vortex looks like. It is why 100 million people are in bone-chilling, subzero weather today. Great for the Arctic, lousy weather for the […]
