Happiness & Success
Achieving Happiness Through Acceptance of Life
The quest for happiness often leads to frustration, as many fail to realize that the...
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- Written by: Steve Schwarze, The University of Montana; et al.
If citizens have heard anything about the upheaval in the U.S. coal industry, it is probably the insistence that President Obama and the EPA have waged a “war on coal.”
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- Written by: Jeremy Bird, International Water Management Institute
African nations have overwhelmingly included climate resilient agriculture in their indicative pledges to the United Nations. And agriculture is seen as a major focus through a common position of the African Union on climate adaptation.
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- Written by: Nick Osbaldiston, James Cook University
When we think of coasts, we are likely to think about the great sandy beaches that have been the destination for many day trips and long weekends.
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- Written by: Jim Erickson, University of Michigan
More than 50 million years ago, when Earth experienced a series of extreme global warming events, early mammals responded by shrinking in size.
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- Written by: Mari Jensen, University of Arizona
Warming in the 21st century has reduced Colorado River flows by at least 0.5 million acre-feet—about the amount of water used by 2 million people for one year, a new study warns.
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- Written by: Kevin Fryling, Indiana University
Chemists have engineered a molecule that uses light or electricity to convert carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide.
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- Written by: Andrew Borrell, The University of Queensland
While increases in population and wealth will lift global demand for food by up to 70% by 2050, agriculture is already feeling the effects of climate change.
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- Written by: Nadia Prupis, Common Dreams
Much like ExxonMobil, Shell lobbied against climate legislation and invested billions in fossil fuels despite knowing dangers of global warming
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- Written by: Brian Peloza, Purdue University
As the world warmed millions of years ago, conditions in the tropics may have made it so hot some organisms couldn’t survive.
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- Written by: Nicole Casal, University of Michigan
Scientists have figured out an Ice Age paradox and their findings add to mounting evidence that climate change could bring higher seas than most models predict.
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- Written by: Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, UNSW; Andrew King, University of Melbourne, and Matthew Hale, UNSW
The heatwave that engulfed southeastern Australia at the end of last week has seen heat records continue to tumble like Jenga blocks.
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- Written by: Liam Jackson, Penn State
The frequency of hail storms, thunderstorms, and high wind events has decreased by nearly 50 percent on average throughout China since 1960.
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- Written by: InnerSelf Staff
A group of former Republican officials (including James A. Baker, Henry Paulson, George P. Shultz, Marty Feldstein and Greg Mankiw) is proposing a carbon tax starting the tax at $40 per ton, that would gradually increase.
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- Written by: Meredith Rutland Bauer, YES! Magazine
After opposing a Washington state carbon tax in November, climate justice advocates are setting the stage for a more thorough initiative to address both climate change and inequality.
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- Written by: Lawrence McIntosh and Dani Alexander, University of Technology Sydney
Some commentators seem to be worried that our electricity networks are facing an impending voltage crisis, citing fears that renewables (rooftop solar panels in particular) will threaten the quality of our power supply.
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- Written by: Cindy Fox, Indiana University, Purdue University
A vibrant Native-American agrarian culture stretched from the Ohio River Valley to the Mississippi River Valley in the two centuries before Europeans settled in North America. Then it disappeared.
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- Written by: Greg Borzo, University of Chicago
The increase in large-scale tornado outbreaks in the US doesn’t appear to be clearly linked to climate change, a new study suggests.
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- Written by: Todd Bates, Rutgers University
What, quantitatively, is the social cost of carbon dioxide—the economic damage caused by a 1-ton increase in emissions or the benefits of a 1-ton decrease?
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- Written by: Robert Mitchum, University of Chicago
Technological advances wouldn’t protect US agriculture from a drought on the scale of the legendary Dust Bowl crisis of the 1930s, research shows.
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- Written by: Beverly James, University of Florida
Global climate change has already impacted every aspect of life on Earth, from genes to entire ecosystems, according to a new study in Science.
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- Written by: Andrew Revkin ProPublica
President-elect Donald J. Trump has long pledged to undertake a profound policy shift on climate change from the low-carbon course President Obama made a cornerstone of his eight years in the White House.
