Houston Catastrophe: Prediction Becomes Fact
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 […]
Category Archives: Weather
Hell and High Water Predicted Houston Disaster
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 […]
Solar Eclipse Aug 21 2017
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
