The Trump administration may have blocked testimony on climate change from State Department intelligence analyst Rod Schoonover, and they may have pushed to suppress mention of climate change in official policy statements, but that doesn’t mean that climate change is not happening. Climate Anomalies According to the latest report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric […]
The City of New Orleans will become the first U.S. city to participate in the C40 Women4Climate Mentorship Program.
The Gulf of Mexico “dead zone” will approach near record levels this year according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). This year’s dead zone will be approximately 7,829 square miles – roughly the size of the state of Massachusets. Each year, NOAA forecasts the size of the hypoxic zone in the Gulf of […]
The report explains that some parts of Louisiana are home to communities that will have no choice but to relocate.
When it comes to explaining the need for climate change legislation, Bill Nye has had enough.
The population clock has hit 7.54 billion people, and the atmospheric carbon count has topped 400 parts of carbon dioxide per million.
It’s been only a week or so since President Trump denounced his administration’s own Climate Change report, with an aggressively dismissive shrug. WhenThe Fourth National Climate Assessment came out, it caused quite the stir, with data to concern even the most stringent deniers.
The U.S. government released a highly-anticipated report on global climate change today, raising concerns that they may have been trying to bury the news amidst the busiest shopping day of the year.
Katrina. The name itself still has power. The mention of this storm brings back a complex slew of memories—both horrific and transformative. Because of this, we as a city have a unique, ingrained respect for the power of hurricanes. So sit down—with global temperature increases, hurricanes will be getting worse, much worse.
The Mississippi has a 200-year delta cycle, slowly slithering from the Atchafalaya to her current mouth while depositing sediment at the various subdeltas in between. However, the natural freedom of the river had dire consequences for its nearby human inhabitants. The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 caused the federal government to respond by contracting the Army Corps of Engineers to build dams and levee systems that constrained the Mississippi to its current location and consequently put an end to the river’s natural cycle.
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