Monarch Butterfly Reserve - Another Victim of Climate Change?

The world’s largest reserve for migrating Monarch butterflies, located in the Mexican highlands, is suffering from an infestation of bark beetles similar to outbreaks that have killed millions of acres of evergreens in the U.S. and Canada…So far, the infestation has affected only a small portion of the 33,000-acre core mountaintop wintering grounds, but the [...]

Global Warming? Climate Change?

The globe recorded its second warmest September since record keeping began in 1880, according to NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center. The combined global land and ocean temperature anomaly was 0.62°C (1.12°F), falling only 0.04°C (0.07°F) short of tying the record set in 2005. NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies also rated September 2009 as the [...]

Blog Action Day '09: Climate Change

It’s that time of year again…15 October 2009 is the third Blog Action Day. This year the subject of conversation for the day is “Climate Change”. Close to 7,000 bloggers are participating this year.

What Is Blog Action Day?

Blog Action Day is an annual event that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue [...]