All of California may not one day fall into the ocean, but right now, parts of it do. Erosion occurs all along the coast. Every ocean wave pounds on the bluffs and scours the beaches. Here is the Pacifica Municipal Pier. It’s shaped like an “L” — you can see that it makes a right [...]
Roving China correspondent Josh Chin has filed a brief video report with the Wall Street Journal on Beijing’s growing transit system. It’s done well, and for being just a few minutes long, feels awfully comprehensive. My favorite is this Chinese kid who grew up in Switzerland and in documenting the entire subway system online.
The Asia Society’s Center on U.S.–China Relations recently published China Green, a multimedia site that will highlight stories of China’s environment. Its initial set of videos and images focus on how climate change is affecting the Tibetan Plateau and the Himalayas, which host the headwaters of most of Asia’s major rivers. The Asia Society took [...]
Last week, the Guardian reported that the British government is creating a “radical plan to curb greenhouse gas emissions by rationing the carbon use of individuals.” The plan includes what sounds to be a debit card, in which every citizen is allocated an annual carbon allowance. Writes David Adam: …Points would be deducted at point [...]
The following is a dual entry on this blog and today’s Sierra Club Compass blog, for which I originally wrote it. I’m surprised they let me go on as long as I did (which is as long as I usually do)… Here in San Francisco last December, at the annual conference of the American Geophysical [...]
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