Category: Nature and Natural Science

In both Greenland and Antarctica, the ice shelves are what hold glacial ice on land. Not only do the ice shelves help protect the land glaciers, they support a lot of wildlife. It’s easy to forget about the enormous Antarctic continent covered in ice, but it’s there, it’s big, and it’s melting. The following reports…

A rather concerning look at sea ice in the Arctic: Sea ice is an important driver for global weather, and depends on an upper layer of fresher water to form in the first place. In other words it’s self-perpetuating. If summer sea ice disappears, the winter sea ice may not be as likely to form…

Yesterday a Red Dragonfly visited. It flew into my side yard while I sat idling, taking a break from the internet and my dependence on it, thinking about spending the rest of the day knitting. I sat there looking at our avocado trees, which currently include three new, young ones, two in the ground, one…