Climate Crisis, War, and The Survival of Seeds

Climate Crisis, War, and The Survival of Seeds

When civil war erupted in Syria in the spring of 2011, The International Center [sic] for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) (Moved now to Lebanon) had more than 140,000 packets of seeds preserved in cold storage just 19 miles south of Aleppo when it...
Is global warming damaging your health?

Is global warming damaging your health?

Summer 2018 in Ireland experienced heat that it hasn’t experienced in more than 40 years with temperatures soaring above 30℃. The reality of this situation? It was an indication that our atmosphere is overloading with carbon dioxide and other global warming emissions,...
Have you lived through an atomic bomb?

Have you lived through an atomic bomb?

A reasonable answer to this question is “No” unless you were living in Nagasaki or Hiroshima in August 1945. What if I told you that the current rate of increase of global temperature due to carbon emissions is the equivalent of exploding four atomic bombs every...