GaiaGram - Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis

-Earth's life-support systems are in peril — and they're getting worse

-A Kelvin wave so severe it could raise sea levels along California by up to a foot

-178 major fossil-fuel and cement producers have already caused the majority of global warming

-The herbicide atrazine contaminates roughly 860,000 miles of U.S. rivers

-Aral Sea’s catastrophic drying up and shrinkage has released vast amounts of carbon dioxide once locked in lake-bottom sediments

-Tulare Lake in Calif, once the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi has returned to exceptional rainfall

-The U.S. Department of Energy has announced financial support for 21 next-generation geothermal projects

-The endangered thick-billed parrot, once found in Arizona and New Mexico is making a comeback

-Florida is using solar-powered robotic rabbits to help combat invasive Burmese pythons