Washington (CAR) Analysis | July 17, 2024 by Climate Journalist Noreen Wise; Image Credits: Noreen Wise
Weekly grocery shopping at Wegmans in Ashburn, Virginia is not the typical experience one usually encounters in the vast majority of suburban shopping centers across the United States.
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Washington (CAR) Analysis | November 1, 2022 by Climate Journalist Noreen Wise; Image Credit: AdobeStock
The Roman Catholic Church is the largest landowner on earth. The Holy See controls 71.6 million hectares around the world, the same surface area as France, according to One More Hectare. Further, much of the 71.6 million hectares is prime real estate, that if sold, would fetch a staggering sum or money.
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Washington (CAR) Analysis | August 31, 2022 by Sarah J. Kings, Reprinted from April 18, 2021 publication; Image Credit AdobeStock
Now more than ever, keeping a clean home is rising to the top of the priority list. As a parent, you are diligent in wiping down surfaces, disinfecting door-knobs, and beating back dust bunnies. But as you recycle container after container of Clorox Wipes and Febreze, you may be starting to wonder what impact this is having on the planet. You might even be thinking about making some eco-friendly swaps to your cleaning routine.
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Washington (CAR) Analysis | August 22, 2022 by Climate Journalist Noreen Wise; Updated from original article, July 13, 2021; Image Credit: AdobeStock
Climate change is impacting everything about our weather, down to the small details. From the heat of a forest fire, to the strength of a hurricane, the amount of moisture in clouds, and the force of rain microbursts, down to the size and intensity of a lightning strike.
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Washington (CAR) Analysis | August 2, 2022 by Climate Journalist Noreen Wise; Image Credit: Leonardo DiCaprio
No good deed ever goes unpunished. Environmentalist and legendary actor Leonardo DiCaprio, a global Hollywood phenomenon who’s devoted many tens of millions of dollars of his fortune, endless hours of his personal time and a huge portion of his platform to promote wildlife protection, environmental causes, climate action, and ocean and forest conservation on multiple continents, particularly South America in an effort to help save the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, comes under attack again following his two sentence tweet on July 26, 2022.
Dicaprio didn’t even mention Bolsonaro by name.
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Washington (CAR) Analysis | May 4, 2022 by Climate Journalist Noreen Wise; Image Credit: Leonardo DiCaprio
Anyone who spends even the shortest amount of time on Twitter can instantly recognize how diplomatic Leonardo DiCaprio’s tweets are about the pressing need for immediate climate action, biodiversity restoration via rewilding, and the dangerous deforestation in the Amazon that not only threatens the survival of endangered wildlife, a cause very dear to DiCaprio’s heart, but also the survival of the entire human species.
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Washington (CAR) Analysis | April 17, 2022 by Climate Journalist Noreen Wise | Reprint from December 24, 2019; Image Credit: Noreen Wise
Exciting update on the “Ketchup in a glass bottle sold locally” search, a tale that has reached a positive outcome in just five weeks. Five weeks is a very short period of time. This proves that social media is a very powerful solutions driver.
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Washington (CAR) Analysis | April 17, 2022 by Attorney Michael Wells; Image Credit: AdobeStock
Napoleon Bonaparte once said, “Let China sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world.” China poses military, economic, social, and environmental threats to the entire world. Yet, with the myriad threats it poses, one threat it has awakened, Bitcoin, threatens to shake — and possibly destroy — the environment. Although Bitcoin requires the most advanced computers performing dizzying calculations, it needs unfathomable amounts of energy, and that energy comes primarily from fossil fuels in China, namely coal.
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Washington (CAR) Analysis | April 17, 2022 by Sarah J. Kings; Image Credit: AdobeStock
For years now, we have known that Keurig K-Cups are an environmental hazard. Made from plastic, these little cups are too small to be properly sorted by recycling centers and machines. Billions of K-Cups are piling up in landfills around the world, and many have been incinerated in Keurig’s program, Grounds to Grow On.
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Washington (CAR) Analysis | April 4, 2022 by Climate Journalist Noreen Wise; Image Credit: AdobeStock
Historically, the arctic and the antarctic are polar opposites and never experience the same weather conditions at the same time. That is until Friday, February 18, 2022, when this scientific fact melted and our new climate conditions became that much more apparent. The Arctic reached 50 degrees above normal, while temperatures in Antartica skyrocketed as high as 70 degrees, which was way beyond the pale. Again, the simultaneous heating of both poles at the same time has never happened before, which shocked scientists.
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