Clues for what the future may hold are frozen deep within ice on the worlds highest mountains. Lonnie thompson and his team have been risking their lives for over three decades, drilling into mountain glaciers ice that has remained frozen for thousands of years. The ice cores they retrieve contain a perfectly preserved record of the earths past climate. Looking toward the future, chris field has created a time machine in a Northern California grassland. The jasper ridge Global Change experiment is subjecting an entire ecosystem to the predicted climate conditions possible 50 to 75 years in the future. Both Research Programs one looking into the past and the other toward the future will ultimately provide us with better ways to predict and cope with earths changing climate. [ wind whipping ] man ive climbed a t of mountains, and ive been told that i hold the worlds record for the amount of time a human being has spent above 18,000 feet, which is 3 1 2 years of my life. But ive always ha
Resource, our forests. But Carbon Pollution is not just an attack on our forests, its also an attack on our farming. Indeed, drought across the u. S. Is a huge and growing throat t to ago cull. In the state of organizer, we e had three of the worst droughts in the klamath basin. 2001, then the worstever drought of 2010, and then the worstever drought of 2013, and now were looking at the possibly of the worse of any drought in 2014. Hopefully well have a lot of precipitation and a lot of snow in the coming weeks and that wont be the case. But if you were looking right now just at the snowpack, it is possibly well have the fourth worstever in a 14year period. This is devastating to our rural farming economy. Absolutely devastating. And so lets take a look at the impact of coming from smaller snowpacks. Snowpacks are a significant piece of this puzzle. And if we were to take and look at the Pacific Northwest and we were to basically draw a circle about like this, what you see are these zo
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This year’s offerings at the 10th annual Environmental Film Festival inspire both awe and deep concern for the state of our planet. Speaking about the festival’s origins, founder and executive director of the Martha’s Vineyard Film Society Richard Paradise says, “What drove me to do this is that the Vineyard has always been an environmentally […]