WNN Earth Watch (WNN/NOAA) Boulder, Colorado, UNITED STATES, AMERICAS: The nation’s 28 National Estuarine Research Reserves (NERR) are experiencing the negative effects of human and climate-related stressors according to a new NOAA – National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration research report from the National Ocean Service. The national study, Climate Sensitivity of the National Estuarine Research […]
Maria Lewytzkyj-Milligan with Veronica “Roni” Jacobi – WNN Earth Watch (WNN) Washington, D.C., UNITED STATES, AMERICAS: According to an April report from the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, sixty-two percent of Americans now say they believe that global warming is happening and only 16 percent say it is not. Recently on June 5, 2013, U.S. Agriculture Secretary […]
WNN Earth Watch (WNN) Washington, D.C., UNITED STATES, AMERICAS: Our rivers, lakes and sea life may be in serious danger, outlines a new forecast by NOAA – National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration as the largest ‘dead-zone’ in the Gulf of Mexico to date is expected to be part of this year’s ocean environment events. Causing […]
Nepal correspondent Nilima Raut with Shubhi Tandon – WNN Features (WNN) KATHMANDU: The centuries old practice of chhaupadi in Nepal can cause prolonged depression in girls and women. In extreme cases it can also cause death. Chhaupadi pratha, or ritual practice, places Nepali women and girls in a limbo of isolation. In history it is […]
Lys Anzia – WNN Features (WNN) Pine Ridge, SOUTH DAKOTA: U.S. Oglala Sioux Lakota Elder women and families suffering from severe poverty are bracing themselves to face a harsh winter season spurred on by climate change this year, according to NOAA – the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. With poverty conditions that rival some […]