Posts tagged “Climate Change”

When we think about forests, we generally don’t think of houses, apartments and city streets, right? Well, recent studies by the Forest Service on the benefits of “urban forests” are redefining the way citizens think about the trees that shade their local block.   On a daily basis, most Americans don’t set foot on a National Forest. But with 80 percent of the U.S. population living in urban areas, a huge number of us drive, walk, bike and run through urban forests each and... (Read more…)

By now most scientists around the world have come to the same conclusion: increased carbon dioxide in our atmosphere is rapidly changing our global climate. While changing weather patterns may mean snow in Dallas in January, or 50 degrees and sunny in Montana in February, the overall global temperatures are warming as compared to the last couple of centuries. Government scientists at the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recently published data that the combined global... (Read more…)