Al Gore is currently traveling through the Antarctic Peninsula. Below, he reflects on the melting ice and rising sea levels due to the effects of global warming.
The ice on land is melting at a faster rate and large ice sheets are moving toward the ocean more rapidly. As a result, sea levels are rising worldwide. Most of the world’s ice is contained in Antarctica — more than 90 percent. The West Antarctic Ice Sheet, which lies south of the Peninsula, contains enough water to raise sea levels worldwide by more than 20 feet. Part of the ice sheet, the Pine Island Glacier ice shelf, is among the many in Antarctica that are shrinking at an accelerating rate. This has direct consequences for low-lying coastal and island communities all over the world — and for their inland neighbors. Continue reading
The Environmental Media Association hit the slopes again this year with our return to the Sundance Film Festival. We also brought the season’s first major snowstorm, which we will let you decide if that was a coincidence or some EMA weather magic.
The logline for the episode is quintessential Happy Days: “Richie goes to a local college and Fonzie takes him to the library to meet some girls.” For a sitcom in the 70s, this is standard stuff, but what happens after this episode airs on September 27, 1977 is far from standard. Millions of kids watching the show see the Fonz take out a library card — his first, mind you, which is a big deal by Happy Days standards. Younger viewers are duly impressed. In the days that follow, according to the series creator, Garry Marshall, requests for library cards zoom by more than 500% nationwide.
What could be more exciting to a young student than broccoli, radishes and cilantro? You may scoff but school gardens are the new Trapper Keeper at Marvin Avenue Elementary. EMA’s School Garden Program has added three new schools to its repertoire with Marvin Avenue Elementary, Queen Anne Elementary and Cochran Middle School – all located in low-socio economic neighborhoods in Los Angeles – and all sponsored by Tiffany & Co.