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Our Planet Earth is Rare and So Are Many of its Elements Neodymium. Dysprosium. Samarium. Yttrium. Praseodymium. Gadolinium. OK, this is not a test, you don’t have to really try...

And The Renewable Energy Story Continues: It is Unstoppable Great Britain [GB], the place where the industrial revolution began in the late 1700's, when coal provided power for trains, new...

All Things Electric: Ferries, Buses, Cars. It’s Happening; Now. Rebecca Solnit has been writing and studying the transition to renewables for many years. In a 30 July 2025 article in...

Flash Drought, Heat Domes and More There are some newer terms entering the vocabulary when weather and climate change are being discussed. One of these terms is “Flash Drought.” According...

Extreme Weather, Climate Change, Global Warming: It is Here The folks at the National Weather Service [NWS] in Alaska were nervous. They were kind of caught between a rock and...

This May, and early June, has been a busy period from a global climate change and global warming perspective. It has even touched most of us here in the North...

With Warming Climate, Planting Zones Are Changing: Animals Are Noticing Too When it comes to science, when it comes to climate, data is always involved to help tell the story,...

Renewable Energy; Good News, Really! Now, let us look at some good news. Renewable energy had a great year in 2024, worldwide, and contributed 92.5% of new power capacity to the...

Climate News and Weather Forecasts, but Climate Data May Be Hard to Find With a large loss [hundreds at least] of employees, some very experienced, we can expect delays in the...

The Data Still Stands: Unlike Ice It Will Not Melt Away Let’s talk about data. Just the facts. These data are information gathered by satellites, instruments on the ground [thermometers,...

Information and Individuals Matter; and More Progress Cordelia Baehr is not exactly a household name. However, she is a person with an education, a career, curiosity, and a desire to...