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If hope were a commodity, it would be trading high in Venezuela this season. Since the international approach to the Venezuelan crisis shifted from maximizing pressure on the Maduro regime through sanctions, threats and diplomatic isolation to a negotiated solution to the conflict, the Venezuelan people have remained firm in their determination to see the process through to an election, now set for July 28th.
A global update from the leading authority on the status of species shows that climate change is compounding other threats to plants and animals.
Climate models fail to accurately predict hurricane intensification because they mainly depend on sea surface temperatures and ocean heat content, overlooking the role of subsurface saltiness. Hurricanes intensify when they pull "superheated" subsurface water, which occurs largely due to the formation of barrier layers where freshwater overlays dense salty water. This phenomenon conflicts with the widespread narrative attributing hurricane intensification to rising CO2 levels. The impact of barrier layer dynamics in hurricane formation needs to be better acknowledged.
Many Amazon river dolphins live close to proposed dam and dredging sites
A brownish, pungent seaweed known as sargassum has increased dramatically in the Caribbean in recent months, Sarah Berger reports for the International Business Times. Some shorelines have been hit so hard by the invasion of algae that tourists have cancelled summer trips and lawmakers in Tobago have deemed it a “natural disaster,” the Associated Press reported…