Climate

NASA and Boeing Release New Rendering of their X-66 Sustainable Experimental Airliner

Climate change is arguably the single greatest threat facing the world today. According to the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) by…

5 days ago

Satellite Measurements Show That Global Carbon Emissions are Still Rising

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), human activities have significantly impacted the planet.…

2 weeks ago

Can the Gaia Hypothesis Be Tested in the Lab?

During the 1970s, inventor/environmentalist James Lovelock and evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis proposed the Gaia Hypothesis. This theory posits that Earth…

1 month ago

NASA Launches a New Mission to Study the Effects of Climate Change

NASA's Plankton, Aerosol, Climate, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) satellite successfully launched and reached on Thursday, February 10th. The mission took off…

1 month ago

Early Mars Climate was Complex, with Streams Flowing Intermittently for Millions of Years

There's overwhelming evidence that Mars was once wet and warm. Rivers flowed across its surface and carved intricate channel systems…

2 months ago

NASA Confirms that 2023 was the Hottest Year on Record

After analyzing the temperature data from 2023, NASA has concluded that it was the hottest year on record. This will…

2 months ago

It Doesn't Take Much to Get a Runaway Greenhouse Effect

During the 1960s, the first robotic explorers began making flybys of Venus, including the Soviet Venera 1 and the Mariner…

3 months ago

No Surprise, July 2023 Was the Hottest Month on Record Since 1880

In case you missed it, the weather's been hot. From warmer-than-usual temperatures in northern climes to melting ice sheets in…

7 months ago

We’ve Never Seen Antarctic Sea Ice This Low

While many people are living through a sweltering summer, it's the depths of winter in Antarctica. Usually, this means there's…

7 months ago

Follow a Simulated Journey of the Destruction of ESA’s Aeolus Mission

On July 28th, the European Space Agency commanded its long-working Aeolus wind profile mission to re-enter Earth's atmosphere. It did…

8 months ago