Climate Corner: Bye-bye, birdies

May 18, 2024 Linda Eve Seth editorial@newsandsentinel.com “Birds tell us about the health of our natural environment — we ignore their messages at our peril.” — Patricia Zurita, BirdLife CEO *** Bird populations are declining around the world…. Read More

Climate Corner: Where have all the flowers gone?

Mar 2, 2024 Linda Eve Seth editorial@newsandsentinel.com What a lonely place it would be to have a world without a wildflower! — Roland R Kemler *** Think about climate change. If you’ve been paying attention, you are likely… Read More

Climate Corner: Wake up and smell the coffee

Dec 16, 2023 Linda Eve Seth editorial@newsandsentinel.com “As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?” — Cassandra Clare *** Attention coffee drinkers: Grab a mugful and sit down before reading this column…. Read More

Climate Corner: The future is NOW!

Sep 30, 2023 Linda Eve Seth editorial@newsandsentinel.com “The dog days of summer are not just barking, they are biting.” — U.N. Sec. Gen. Antonio Guterres *** Global climate change is not a future problem. Effects that scientists have… Read More

Climate Corner: Baked Alaska?

Jul 15, 2023 Linda Eve Seth editorial@newsandsentinel.com “To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.” — John Muir, naturalist *** Alaska is on the front lines of the climate crisis…. Read More

Climate Corner: What’s food got to do with climate change?

Apr 29, 2023 Linda Eve Seth editorial@newsandsentinel.com Cutting food waste is a delicious way of saving money, helping to feed the world and protecting the planet. — Tristram Stuart *** What we eat, and how that food is… Read More

Climate Corner: Goodbye, Tuvalu; alas, I hardly knew you

FEB 11, 2023 LINDA EVE SETH Mid-Ohio Valley Climate Corner editorial@newsandsentinel.com “Goodbyes make you think. They make you realize what you’ve had, what you’ve lost, and what you’ve taken for granted.” — Ritu Ghatourey *** Anyone who has stood… Read More

Climate Corner: Climate change – as American as apple pie?

Nov 26, 2022 Linda Eve Seth editorial@newsandsentinel.com “Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.” — Jane Austen *** What does Climate Change have to do with apple pie? I am sitting in my kitchen… Read More

Climate Corner: Leave it to beavers

Oct 22, 2022 Linda Eve Seth editorial@newsandsentinel.com “The beaver told the rabbit as they stared at the Hoover Dam: ‘No, I didn’t build it myself, but it’s based on an idea of mine.’” — Charles Hard Townes ***… Read More

Climate Corner: Climate change impacts the health of children

Sep 3, 2022 Linda Eve Seth editorial@newsandsentinel.com “If you don’t act against climate change, then no matter how much money you leave for your children, it’ll not even cover their healthcare bills, due to living in an unhealthy… Read More