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Tasmania suffered from devastating wildfires

https://youtu.be/shWbCgjTg80 I share reports of the devastation Tasmania endured from recent wildfires....

Polar Bears move into Новая Земля

https://youtu.be/2fxIh69c0oU Polar bears in the Russian arctic are moving into the island of Novaya Zemlya (which literally means New Earth) due to the ever dec...

Global Temperature Trends

https://youtu.be/Cu5TlsKf4eA I discuss the current trends in worldwide temperatures...

Slowing Gulf Stream means a cooler NW Europe

https://youtu.be/GL9Te1ldTLk The Gulf Stream is slowing which is due to deep water formation in the North Atlantic slowing. The deep water formation is the star...

Henry David Thoreau - Phenologist

https://youtu.be/c2vMlTvUxqk Henry David Thoreau, as it turned out, was probably the first phenologist. Phenology is the study of timings in the natural world, ...

Greenland's Petermann Glacier

https://youtu.be/NiDxU81dpdg I discuss the latest findings into the state of Greenland's Petermann Glacier...

People eating megafauna to extinction

https://youtu.be/hI7RjX17-64 People are overharvesting large animals for consumption. Consequences include driving these populations to extinction, change in st...

Earth's Magnetic North Pole is doing crazy things

https://youtu.be/y7b6XNL7nhM The magnetic north pole is on the move and galloping over to Siberia at a very unprecedented rate....

Earth's Collision with Mars Sized Object May Have Seeded Life

https://youtu.be/7zFgRPWXCo A new hypothesis suggests that a collision with an object about the size of Mars may have provided some of the basic raw ingredients...

Human Carbon Emissions Set to Increase During 2019

https://youtu.be/LbblgpI5gAs Despite breakthroughs in renewable energy uses, humans still continue to burn fossil fuels, still continue to add more and more GHG...

New Archosaur Fossil

https://youtu.be/owOpdalFRA Archosaurs are the base or stem group that gave rise to the Crocodilians, Ornithschians, Saurischian and Birds (latter 3 comprising ...

Big Void in Thwaites Glacier

https://youtu.be/h7sW6j2V1ug Scientists have discovered a large cavernous void in side Thwaites Glacier. I discuss how this formed and its implications....

Risks of High Heat and Humidity

https://youtu.be/ObWQG687ss Not only can high heat pose threats to human well being, but combined with humidity can be very deadly....

Potable Water

https://youtu.be/LPPiXUeAxk Access to clean drinking water is becoming more and more problematic. More and more watersheds, aquifers, groundwater are being poll...

Polar Ice Loss

https://youtu.be/im-b1ekOoAw I discuss the accelerating pace of polar ice loss in both hemispheres....

Ocean Waves - Bigger and Stronger

https://youtu.be/vIf06rWSU0 As the planet warms, the energy imparted into the oceans is making for waves that are bigger and stronger packng more power. This ca...

More permafrost news - it is dire

https://youtu.be/zwwDhlT5NjU I discuss recent findings that are troubling. The permafrost is being affected more so than previously thought with the potential f...

Indicators of Forest Health

https://youtu.be/kFJ513d5d3U I discuss some of the parameters used to assess the health of forests....

Hothouse Earth

https://youtu.be/-rOD1aOWbxs Earth is warming at a higher rate than previously thought. The ramifications of this to humans is and will be severe....

Island off Denmark goes totally green

https://youtu.be/YKPjvneKJo This is an encouraging story. An island off Denmark has completely made the transformation to using green energy to provide all its ...