Posts by geogadmin

Christopher Loeak is president of the Marshall Islands. This moving speech was delivered in a video address to world leaders in the week before the UN’s climate summit on 23 September, 2012 and was re-aired on 18 September 2014, a week before the upcoming summit in New York: Out here in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, climate change has arrived. In the last year alone, my country has suffered through unprecedented droughts in...

The following is a September 10, 2014 news article on the NOAA Research site with the title above and subtitled “NOAA helps lead latest analysis of Earth’s protective shield”: Nearly 30 years after the protections of the Montreal Protocol were put into place, there’s more evidence that the international agreement to protect Earth’s ozone layer is working, according to a new scientific report released...

According to a NASA news release, California’s King Fire tripled in size from Monday, September 15 to Tuesday morning, September 16, and current weather conditions are doing nothing more than helping it along. The hot, drought conditions and winds have produced over 12 major fires that still burn all over California. The King Fire is just one of them. It is located east of Sacramento in the Pollock Pines community. Residents...