2 results for tag: climate impacts
Crater Lake’s crystal clear waters: threatened by climate change
Crater Lake is Oregon's only national park and if you haven't been yet, you'd better go soon. The Oregonian writes that a new report by the U.S. Geological Survey shows warming temperatures, due to climate change, may forever murky its world famous, crystal clear, deep blue waters.
According to a 2013 National Park Service Report, Crater Lake is a vital economic driver of local area tourism. Visitors to Crater Lake contributed an additional $34,688,000 to communities surrounding the park and supported 565 jobs in just one year. And that's just the ecomony. Imagine what a loss it would be to local communities, our state as a whole and future ...
Wildfire smoke and my fireplace.
What does it feel like to be vulnerable to air pollution? Let me tell you my story...
One Friday a while back, I couldn't seem to get a deep breath. I thought it was due to over-exerting myself (I'm six months pregnant so I get tired pretty easily). I didn't realize that a steady stream of smoke from wildfires across the Pacific Northwest was slowly rolling into the Portland metro area, impacting the air quality all around me. It was a warm summer night, and I'm a typical Oregonian without air conditioning, so my husband and I slept with the screen door to our bedroom open that night, breathing the outside air as it got worse and worse. I slept ...