Connecting the Dots: Weather, Climate, and Our Role
For those stateside, it’s been impossible this summer to ignore one sweaty fact-of-life: It’s hot. Brutally hot. It seems like we’re right back where we left off last summer — all 50 states saw record highs in July 2011 — [...]
Tags: Arctic, Blaine Skrainka, Climate Change, Climate Dots, Democracy Now, Enviroment, Global Warming, Heatwave, Horn of Africa, Journalism, Media Matters, NASA, NOAA, Politics, The Economist, The Wild Magazine, Wildfires, world
Humanity Ignored
A modern day slave trade may seem unimaginable, but it is in fact all around us. Two and a half million people just this year have fallen victim to this $32 billion industry. The United Nations reports that 80 percent [...]
Tags: Blaine Skrainka, Brazil, China, Equality Now, Honduras, Human Rights, Human Trafficking, Humanity Ignored, New York Times, Nigeria, Polaris Project, Prostitution, Sex Work, Slavery, Spain, The Economist, The Wild Magazine, United Nations, United States, world
A Political Climate
Timely solutions to the climate change crisis at times appear overwhelmingly difficult given our modern political arena and public discourse. Steady streams of misinformation have provided fodder for deniers to reinforce their entrenched views on the subject. We have long [...]
Tags: A Political Climate, ALEC, Blaine Skrainka, Carbon Emissions, Climate Change, Conservatives, Environment, Global Warming, Hydrologic Cycle, John Boehner, Michigan State, Mitt Romney, Oklahoma State, Politics, Republican Party, Rick Perry, Sarah Palin, Tea Party, The Economist, The Wild Magazine, world, Yale
ENVIRONMENTAL DISTRACTIONS
Despite dire warnings from climate scientists and a call to action from a vast majority of US citizens, Republican officials remain intent on ignoring the environmental crisis. A serious discussion on a progressive energy plan is virtually non-existent, and the [...]
Tags: Blaine Skrainka, Clean Air Act, Climate Change, Congress, Economy, Environmental Distractions, EPA, Greenhouse Gases, Media, Media Matters, Pollution, Supreme Court, The Economist, The New York Times, The Wild Magazine
