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Power-generating windmill turbines are seen during sunset in Bourlon, France. Photo: Reuters With Earth Day taking place today, look to these five new books about the planet, from a Bill Gates bestseller to a children's book about polar bears. 1. How To Avoid A Climate Disaster - Bill Gates (Non-fiction) Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the world is thought to have emitted about 5% fewer greenhouse gases last year than the year before. That means releasing the equivalent of 48 or 49 billion tonnes of carbon, instead of 51 billion. "Consider what it took to achieve this 5% reduction," writes ...

PUBLISHED 6:00 PM ET Apr. 12, 2021 PUBLISHED 6:00 PM EDT Apr. 12, 2021 SHARE What You Need To Know Western New York has a lot of hidden hiking spots The Niagara Gorge offers a hike for all skill levels When at the Niagara Gorge wear the proper shoes and bring water ​ It is a gorgeous series of trails that offer both easy and difficult options while making you feel like you are on vacation in your hometown. The sequence of trails allows you an opportunity to see the insanely blue water that sits below. It is one of my favorite things to...

Daily Times Under a White Sky — marching towards extinction * Kolbert's writing, in brief, is about the Anthropocene, the geological epoch during which humans have had an unprecedented influence on the planet, its climate and its denizens April 4, 2021 Critical of technological interventions to bring nature back, an environment writer says human actions have brought ecosystems to the brink of an apocalypse In this collection of disquieting and thought-provoking essays, Elizabeth Kolbert persuades us that the world is in entirely uncharted territory. She picks up the thread from her previous...

By Mike Wolterbeek From the suffocating heat of Death Valley to the bone-chilling cold of Antarctica, scientists at the University of Nevada, Reno are leading the way in new, more precise methods of collecting important temperature data from around the world. “It’s not just a thermometer anymore, we can take the temperature of air, soil, or water at the same instant every 15 seconds, 24 hours a day, every 3 feet for many kilometers,” Scott Tyler, a University of Nevada, Reno professor, hydrologist and director of their national hydrological measurement facility, said. Tyler and his col...

So far, the Anthropocene is not going so well: humans, she notes, have transformed half the ice-free land on Earth, dammed or diverted most of the world’s major rivers and emitted about a hundred times more carbon dioxide than volcanoes. In terms of biomass, people and our domesticated animals now outweigh wild mammals by a ratio of 22 to 1. From nuclear bomb test fallout to microplastics, signs of our presence are everywhere. Under a White Sky reflects on “our habit of mind - that when we come up against one of these problems we try to come up with the technology to solve it. That...