Climate Change
This Artificial Leaf Turns Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Into Fuel
Researchers from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, have developed an "artificial leaf" that has the potential to turn carbon emissions…
Weekly Space Hangout: October 16, 2019 – Jeffrey Kargel Talks Climate Change on Earth and Beyond
Hosts:Fraser Cain (universetoday.com / @fcain) Allen Versfeld (https://www.urban-astronomer.com/ / @uastronomer) Dr. Morgan Rehnberg (MorganRehnberg.com / @MorganRehnberg & ChartYourWorld.org) Moiya McTier (https://www.moiyamctier.com/ / @GoAstroMo) Jeff…
There’s A Fire in Greenland… Again. It’s 10 Degrees Hotter Than Normal
As global warming ramps up, expect to see Greenland in the news a lot. That's because its ice sheet is…
New Study Shows How Breaching “Carbon Threshold” Could Trigger Mass Extinction in Earth’s Oceans
A NASA and NSF-supported study by an MIT geophysicist indicates that carbon emissions could push the Earth's oceans past a…
Airplane Contrails are Contributing to Global Warming Too
To the scientifically uninitiated, it might seem like a frivolous idea: That those slight, wispy clouds that trail behind jet…
NASA’s Long-Term Climate Predictions have Proven to be Very Accurate, Within 1/20th of a Degree Celsius
There are a handful of major science institutions around the world that keep track of the Earth's temperature. They all…
Today is the Highest Concentration of Atmospheric CO2 in Human History. 415 Parts Per Million. Last Time it Was This High, There Were Trees at the South Pole
Think about this for a minute: We humans and our emissions are helping turn back the climatological clock by 2…
Climate Change Q & A with Bear Grylls
Bear Grylls isn’t a climate scientist, but in his travels around the world as an adventurer, survivalist and host of…
There’s a Surprising Amount of Life Deep Inside the Earth. Hundreds of Times More Mass than All of Humanity
Scientists with the Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO) are transforming our understanding of life deep inside the Earth, and maybe on…
A Rapid Rise in Temperature Led to the Worst Extinction in our Planet’s History
Everyone knows about the extinction of the dinosaurs. A cataclysmic asteroid strike about 66 million years ago (mya) caused the…