Bombscapes: Of War and Earth

April 5, 2019 / activist360 / Leave a comment

An American soil researcher is studying landscapes scarred by bombs. That’s familiar terrain for people the world over, but no more so than in Laos. Read the story here.

The Measure of a Fog: Energy

April 4, 2019 / activist360 / Leave a comment

The climate challenge is, at its core, an energy challenge. Fossil fuels are the lifeblood of the modern world, and virtually everything we do, make, buy, drive, wear, and consume is touched by or dependent on the infrastructure use to harvest, distribute and burn coal, natural gas, or oil. Creating a new infrastructure to undergird the 21st century and beyond is a gargantuan undertaking, the scale of which is easy to underestimate.

Mosquito-Borne Diseases Could Reach Extra ‘One Billion People’ as Climate Warms

April 3, 2019 / activist360 / Leave a comment

By Daisy Dunne, Carbon Brief CC BY-NC 4.0 Nearly one billion people could face “their first exposure” to a host of mosquito-borne diseases by 2080 under extreme global warming, a study finds. Countries in Europe, including the UK, would be the most affected by the influence of extreme warming on diseases such as dengue fever,…

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