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Image: Jim’s outside photos

Photo via jo.in.pink

Experimenting with Mother Nature is one way to figure out how climate change will look in 90 years. And with increased cues that climate change is imminent, we're starting to get curious about what changes are going to occur so that we can either plan for what will happen or figure out what changes can be made now.

Watergoat Trash Debris Boom
Much like its notoriously un-picky mammalian counterpart, the new storm system trash collector the Watergoat from First Earth Industries gathers any and all garbage that coasts through its path. The Watergoat is essentially a storm water debris boom made simple: it’s a nylon net that forms a floating barrier around a storm drain’s outlet, and it can collect up to hundreds of pounds of trash every rain cycle.

Scientist Ian Bell measures a Hawksbill Turtle off the Great Barrier Reef. Photo credit: Ian Bell.

This is the first post from guest contributor and Planet Green NGO partner EarthWatch Institute.

Penguin life has gotten more precarious since this 1913 NOAA photo.

Penguin populations have been declining and shifting globally as a result of oil pollution, overfishing, guano mining (!) and increased coastal development, according to research by Dee Boersma from the University of Washington, published in the July-August edition of the journal BioScience.

Climate changes cause dramatic shifts

As we move into March and leave winter behind, it’s probably safe to discuss snowflakes again without inspiring a cacophony of curses and nervous tics.

At least, that’s what I thought because it turns out the occasionally scenic precipitation is not just the ice crystal we previously believed, but formed around a group of biological particulates. Let me reiterate this: in the middle of every snowflake there is a colony of living things.