Health benefits of reducing our carbon footprint

Guest blogger: Krista Peterson

Along with a growing awareness and effort to spread the benefits of living green, there are an increasing number of ways in which you can reduce your carbon footprint. Doing things like walking instead of driving, using recyclable grocery bags, using alternative cleaners, and even searching for new methods of insulation will [...]

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After the ice

As tragic as it is for polar bears to be squeezed out of existence because of the melting Arctic ice, there are other consequences of the rapidly changing landscape. Former biologist and science journalist, Alun Anderson, delves into the complex, and rarely addressed, effects of climate change on the Arctic in his book, After the [...]

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The Future of the Polar Bear

A recent study published in Nature Communications doesn’t paint a very rosy picture for polar bears. These amazing white bears of the Arctic depend on ice as a platform for the hunting of food — mainly ringed seals. With the ice melting earlier due to climate change, polar bears have less of a chance to [...]

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