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Environmental News Update August 10, 2016

 While the Perseids meteor shower is an annual occurrence, the display this year should be especially dazzling, with about 160-200 meteors–rather than the 80-100 of a regular Perseid shower–igniting in earth’s atmosphere each hour on Thursday night and Friday morning, according to the New York Times. We’ll be seeing debris left behind by the Comet Swift-Tuttle during orbits in 1862,…

Environmental Headlines for the Houston Region: August 10, 2016

Web tool lets anyone see effects of climate change at home ( Harvey Rice – Houston Chronicle, 8/8/2016) A new web tool allows anyone to find out how climate change will affect the city where they live. Climate Explorer, the new tool released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration last week, offers downloadable maps, graphs, and tables of projected…

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