LatinaLista — This year’s theme for World Environment Day is ‘Think.Eat.Save – Reduce Your Foodprint.’ In a country that has ingrained in people to expect ‘super-size’ drinks and takeout meals, the concept of smaller portions riles anyone who equates value with quantity, rather than quality. It’s a mindset that will be hard to undo but [...]
Video: International team of cave explorers ‘dive’ into the world’s longest explored underwater cave system in Mexico
LatinaLista — Ox Bel Ha is the longest explored underwater cave system in the world. Located in Quintana Roo, Mexico, it measures a little over 150 miles in its underwater passages but also has within its system dry caves, making it the third largest in the world. For scientists, Ox Bel Ha is every inch [...]
Video: Ancient Mayans, Aztecs and Incas passed on the most powerful technology — that is endangered today
LatinaLista — Which is the more powerful technology — the cell phone or the seed? It was a curious question posed earlier this year by Bill McDorman to his TEDx audience in Tucson, Arizona. Asking the audience to hold up their cell phones in one hand and a seed he had given to each audience [...]
It doesn’t take a superhero to save the planet, just a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions
By Jaclyn Lopez LatinaLista Two pieces of startling, yet intertwined news made headlines this weekend: (1) we’re eleven hundredths away from hitting a new, grim climate change marker; and (2)climate change will cause widespread species extinctions. Scientists had originally reported that readings at the Mauna Loa observatory, where we measure the amount of carbon dioxide [...]
From Virginia to Mississippi, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services designate beach areas critical habitat for loggerhead sea turtles
By Jaclyn Lopez LatinaLista Last week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed designating 739 miles of beach, spanning Virginia to Mississippi, as critical habitat for the loggerhead sea turtle. If finalized, this designation would be the first time the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will have protected imperiled sea turtles’ habitat in mainland United [...]
Environment: Getting the world to agree which species need protection
By Jaclyn Lopez LatinaLista After finding that the international trade of wild plants and animals was leading to their extinction, countries throughout the globe entered into the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species in 1975. CITES, as it is more commonly known, compliments domestic efforts to eliminate the threat of overexploitation through measures ranging [...]