After months of difficult negotiations, the United States and China have reached an accord on reducing their respective country’s contributions to the global climate problem. This past Wednesday, President Obama and President Xi Jinping jointly announced an agreement to cut carbon emissions. In this agreement, the U.S. has agreed to reduce its carbon emissions between… Read more »
Image via Wikimedia CommonsI remember the days of my earth science class in middle school. I learned about geological formations, seismic activities, and meteorological and climatological studies. These subjects were presented to me as facts, with no political commentary to cloud my comprehension of the information. Yet in today’s society, science, particularly the science of… Read more »
In a sobering, yet alarming report delivered by the United Nations’ International Panel on Climate Change in March, the deleterious impacts caused by carbon emissions stood to produce far worse effects on our environment than were predicted. Whether we accept it or not, the fact is that our environment is changing rapidly. Already, climate change… Read more »