There is something about the smell of a fall breeze that just makes me swoon. Each year around this time I will walk outside and just smile because I can smell it in the air. I know fall is still a few week away…but that cool wind sure did remind me of that smell. I can hardly wait!!
npr on environment- Gore Urges Obama To Take Lead On Climate ChangeIn his new book, Al Gore argues that consumers have "all the tools we need" to solve climate change. But unless the United States takes a leadership role, "it would be impossible to resolve this crisis," he tells NPR.
- Can Oceans Survive The Human Appetite For Seafood?Faced with declining fish stocks, many nations are looking for sustainable ways to have their fish — and eat it too. But how much fishing is too much? Oceanographer Sylvia Earle discusses this and other topics in her book The World is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One.
- A Trip To Sumatra To Hear a Gibbon's CallThe Gibbon, a smaller member of the primate family, is well-known for its long arms and hands. Its speed makes it difficult to see, but its distinctive call is easy to identify. A trip to the rainforests of Indonesia by plane from New York, followed by a crumbling 30-year-old propeller plane, and by foot finally yielded a call from the elusive gibbon.
- Radar Reveals Dynamic World Under Antarctica's IceBy flying planes over Antarctica with ice-penetrating radar, lasers and other technology, NASA scientists are able to piece together a picture of the vast mountains, valleys and rivers under the miles of Antarctic ice, revealing a dynamic and complex world. And scientists have already found some really surprising stuff happening inside the ice itself.
- Kilimanjaro Glaciers May Vanish In A Few DecadesThe glaciers atop Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro may be gone entirely in the next few decades. A new study shows that 85 percent of the ice cover that was present in 1912 has vanished, and the ice continues to melt rapidly.
- Gore Urges Obama To Take Lead On Climate Change
