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April 23, 2013

Vivien Gornitz — Toward an Aquatic Future

“Could future greenhouse gas-induced global warming push the Earth’s climate system into an unstable mode, triggering a catastrophic meltdown of the polar ice sheets?”—Vivien Gornitz The follow post is from Vivien Gornitz, author of Rising Seas: Past, Present, Future. Superstorm...

April 27, 2012

Carl Hobbs: Earth Day and Mother's Day

April 22 was Earth Day, and in honor of the occasion, we will be running a series of posts over the course of this week by authors of our environmental studies titles. This post, written by Stuart Sim, addresses how economic concerns drive us to harm the environment.

April 26, 2012

Stuart Sim: The Earth and Profit

April 22 was Earth Day, and in honor of the occasion, we will be running a series of posts over the course of this week by authors of our environmental studies titles. This post, written by Stuart Sim, addresses how economic concerns drive us to harm the environment.

April 25, 2012

James Rodger Fleming: Geoengineering's Checkered Past

April 22 was Earth Day, and in honor of the occasion, we will be running a series of posts over the course of this week by authors of our environmental studies titles. This post concerns the history of climate manipulation, or geoengineering, and is written by James Rodger Fleming.

April 25, 2012

Bryan Tilt: China's Path to Sustainable Development

April 22 was Earth Day, and in honor of the occasion, we will be running a series of posts over the course of this week by authors of our environmental studies titles. This post concerns sustainable development in China and is written by anthropologist Bryan Tilt.

April 24, 2012

James Lawrence Powell: Are Humans Causing Global Warming? Ask Floyd Landis.

April 22 was Earth Day, and in honor of the occasion, we will be running a series of posts over the course of this week by authors of our environmental studies titles. This post explains how we know humans are causing global warming, and is written by James Lawrence Powell.

April 24, 2012

Earth Day 2012: Part 2 of an Interview with Michael E. Mann

April 22 was Earth Day, and in honor of the occasion, we will be running a series of posts over the course of this week by authors of our environmental studies titles. This post is part one of a two-part interview with climatologist Michael E. Mann.

April 23, 2012

Earth Day 2012: Part 1 of an Interview with Michael E. Mann