by Deborah Phelan | Jun 12, 2018 | 2050, Climate Change, TIme Capsule, Water, Youth and Climate Change
The reason they make sounds at all is basically because glaciers contain bubbles, which make sounds. We mentioned that a glacier is a big body of ice, and the number of bubbles in one is just enormous—there are billions of bubbles inside. In contrast, when you have an...
by Deborah Phelan | Jun 8, 2018 | Climate Change, Global Goals, TIme Capsule, UN SDGs, Water, Youth and Climate Change
Groups of plankton, jellyfish, turtles, and seabirds are migrating toward the north and south poles by as much as 10 degrees latitude. Fish stocks are down in some areas, and the future of some tropical fisheries may be in danger. Rainfall patterns globally are out of...
by Deborah Phelan | May 1, 2018 | Climate Change, Displacement and Migration, TIme Capsule, Water
Some three weeks ago, V106, a three-year-old Laysan albatross, returned to nest at her ‘fledgling home’ in Oahu’s James Campbell Refuge. She had spent the first years of her life exploring the vast northern Pacific Ocean. Her return signaled the...
by Deborah Phelan | Apr 24, 2018 | 2050, Climate Change, Displacement and Migration, Extreme Weather, TIme Capsule, Water, Youth and Climate Change
Earth Day 2018 marked the 20 year anniversary of climatologist Michael Mann’s “hockey stick” chart, which detailed the pattern of unprecedented warming in the later part of the 20th century and attributed it to the impact of fossil-fuel-driven...
by Deborah Phelan | Apr 3, 2018 | 2050, Climate Change, Displacement and Migration, Drought, Extreme Weather, TIme Capsule, Water, Youth and Climate Change
You live in a coastal region where impacts from sea level rise are already evident. Your life or the life of someone you know has already been disrupted due to serious water stressors — either flood, fires, or droughts. Your access to clean drinking water is...
by Deborah Phelan | Nov 20, 2017 | Climate Change, Drought, Global Health, Water
“The Dharma informs us, however, that craving, aversion, and delusion within the human mind are the root causes of vast human suffering … Climate change is perhaps humanity’s greatest teacher yet about how these mental forces, when unchecked in ourselves...
