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Voyager of Hope
If our environment is the space we occupy, it is now interstellar. NASA reports: NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft officially is the first human-made object to venture into interstellar space. The...
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Fifth IPCC Report Sets a Global Carbon Budget
By Karl Coplan Karl Coplan is a professor of law at Pace Law School and co-director of its Environmental Litigation Clinic. This post also appears on GreenLaw, the blog of the Pace Environmental Law...
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Revkin’s Roundup: From Government Shutdown to Student Shutout
This week’s developments range from the exasperating to the exciting. Andy’s picks on the government shutdown and more. Government Shutdown Tom Friedman in The New York Times How gerrymandering and...
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ElephantVoices: New Website, Unmatched Resource
Our friends at ElephantVoices, Dr. Joyce Poole and Petter Granli, (see also EarthDesk, September 10) have redesigned their already beautiful website, and it is stunning. It contains information on...
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Soda Planet
How much of the Earth’s currently-existing water has ever been turned into a soft drink at some point in its history? By xkcd/Randall Munroe Every Tuesday, the xkcd what if? webpage answers your...
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Inge Lehmann: “A Small Solid Core in the Innermost Part of the Earth”
By Dana Hunter Rosetta Stones/Scientific American Editor’s Note: Today would have been the 127th birthday of groundbreaking, Danish seismologist Inge Lehmann — a fact known by significantly more...
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What We Know Now: Six Reporters Weigh-In on COP21
If “historic” and “landmark” are missing from your dictionary, it’s no wonder. They could use a break. Kudos are being heaped from quarters far and wide about the outcomes of COP21. But there are also...
View ArticleEvidence-Based Conservation: More Complex Than You Might Think
Scientific journals and literature are full of insights on what does and doesn’t work in conservation. Why then is evidence-based conservation so difficult to achieve? Pace Professor Anne Toomey and...
View ArticleTrump’s Agencies to Trump: “No convincing alternative explanation” for...
A 477-page Climate Science Special Report by 14 federal agencies repudiates the Trump administration climate position and finds that human activities are the only credible explanation for warming of...
View ArticleA New Generation of Scientist Fearless About Relevance: EarthDesk...
Despite the Trump administration's "war on science," Anne Toomey, Pace Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies and Science, says good science should serve community.
View ArticleClimate or Cows: What’s the answer?
Research demonstrates that the industrial livestock system, which produces 95% of the world’s meat, is a major source of the hydrocarbon methane -- a potent climate-killing greenhouse gas that cows...
View ArticleThe Pale Blue Dot: “Where We Make Our Stand”
It is customary to mark anniversaries in years divisible by 5. EarthDesk makes an exception to celebrate the 28th anniversary of the Pale Blue Dot, and the late Carl Sagan’s timeless reminder that “in...
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