Rebecca Leber

4 weeks ago | bauernzeitung.ch | Rebecca Leber

Die Plattform «Mein Hof-Kompass» wurde im Rahmen eines wissenschaftlichen Projekts vom FiBL und Bio Suisse entwickelt. Analysiert werden Parameter wie die Bodenfruchtbarkeit, Ressourcenschonung sowie tragfähige Betriebsstrategien, gutes Arbeitsklima und ein stabiles soziales Umfeld. Ziel ist es, eine fundierte Einschätzung des eigenen Betriebs zu ermöglichen – direkt vom Stubentisch aus und ohne externes Fachpersonal.

Jun 27, 2024 | pbs.org | Rebecca Leber

Journalist Bill McKibben once observed that climate change lacked cultural relevance, particularly in the arts. This was almost 20 years ago, and of course a lot has changed. I think we have reached the point that McKibben hoped for, where we see climate change moving from scientific discourse to a broader cultural one. More artists than ever, like David Bacharach, have sought to capture the massive problem of climate change.

Apr 3, 2024 | pbs.org | Rebecca Leber

In 1969, Daniel Patrick Moynihan sent a one-page memo to a top Nixon advisor on “the carbon dioxide problem.”Moynihan wrote this just seven months before the first Earth Day, a year before the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency, and almost 20 years before climate scientist James Hansen delivered his blockbuster congressional testimony declaring global heating was underway.

Nov 27, 2023 | vox.com | Rebecca Leber

This story is part of a Vox series examining how the climate crisis is impacting communities around the world, as the 28th annual United Nations conference on climate change (COP28) unfolds. Often, the highest-stake decisions impacting the planet come down to the simplest phrases.

Nov 27, 2023 | vox.com | Umair Irfan |Rebecca Leber |Kate Morgan |Yessenia Funes

What could a climate that’s severely out of whack look like? Could it spur devastating floods in the American Northeast? Or terrible fires, like the kind that leveled the historic Hawaiian town of Lahaina, the deadliest wildfire in the United States in more than a century? Or powerful tropical storms like Otis, the fastest accelerating hurricane on record? In a word, yes. Research makes it plain that climate change will bring about a hotter planet.