Climate Change

Citizen Science Salon is a partnership between Discover and SciStarter.org.Climate change is already threatening people and property around the world, from extreme wildfires to the growing intensity of hurricanes. And the science community needs your help tracking emerging climate change hazards, including sea-level rise, extreme temperatures, droughts and floods. Through these science projects…

Using the past to inform the futureThe late Quaternary paleorecord, within the past ∼130,000 years, can help to inform present-day management of the Earth's ecosystems and biota under climate change. Fordham et al. review when and where rapid climate transitions can be found in the paleoclimate record. They show how…

Subscribers to The Climate Crisis newsletter received this piece in their in-boxes. Sign up to receive future installments.The working definition of the ongoing brain seizure that is 2020 is either that Coloradans are being told by state authorities to install smoke-resistant “safe rooms” in their houses, or that Californians now…

Republicans didn’t mention rising temperatures in their first two nights of convention programming. They didn’t even call it a hoax. Climate change doesn’t appear in Trump’s bullet-pointed second-term agenda, released in lieu of an updated 2020 platform as wildfires burn in fifteen states. In a sense, it’s not that surprising:…

August 25, 2020 12:17 AM ET Fox News host Tucker Carlson said Monday that the World Health Organization (WHO) and global elites are trying to link the coronavirus to climate change. “At first, authorities told us that we could resume our lives after the curb was flattened. The curve stayed…

A new Anglo-Indonesian alliance has been established to share research and expertise in a bid to build global resilience against pandemics, the climate emergency and natural hazards.Within the next 25 years, the new UK-Indonesia Consortium for Interdisciplinary Sciences (UKICIS) aims to become a beacon for knowledge exchange and tech transfer…

President Cyril Ramaphosa, in his weekly letter on Monday 24 August, addressed the effects of climate change on the economy and what government can do to combat it.While the scaling down of human and industrial activity during COVID-19 lockdowns has been good for the environment and natural ecosystems, these activities…

President Cyril Ramaphosa has called for a new climate-resilient economy as the country rebuilds after the coronavirus pandemic.In his weekly newsletter on Monday, Ramaphosa said an important aspect of the economy after Covid-19 should be its ability to withstand climate change.“As we work with our social partners to develop an…

The “Cold Tube,” is an an outdoor pavilion made of radiant cooling panels, which provide cooling to passersby without cooling the air. Credit: Photos courtesy of the researchers New radiant cooling technology keeps people cool outside. When most people think of cooling, they automatically imagine air conditioning (AC), or cooling…

The Democratic National Convention this week played against the backdrop of compound crises: Covid-19 and climate change, economic instability and racial injustice. Our country is dying, literally, for change, and the current president cannot deliver. So it’s up to the Democratic Party and its nominees, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris,…