Climate Change

Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden received significant pushback from progressive groups and more liberal candidates after reports that his campaign is crafting a plan that would take a "middle ground" approach to combatting…

Cambridge University has proposed setting up a research center tasked with coming up with scalable technological fixes for climate change. The proposed Center for Climate Repair is being co-ordinated by David King, an emeritus professor in physical chemistry…

The fetid waste of penguins and elephant seals helps spread nutrients across surprisingly large areas of Antarctica. This fertilizer traveled nearly as far as a kilometer (0.6 miles) past the edges of their active outposts, floating on the chilled Antarctic w…

A recently documented stand of bald cypress trees in North Carolina, including one tree at least 2,624 years old, are the oldest known living trees in eastern North America and the oldest known wetland tree species in the world.David Stahle, Distinguished Pro…

This week the UN released a horrifying reportby hundreds of authors around the worldwarning that a million species of plants and animals face extinction in the next few decades. Thats one in four species on this planet that could soon disappear. Virtually eve…

America: Land of the free, home of the brave, and kingdom of deniers. It shouldnt come as a surprise, but a new poll has found that climate denial is thriving in the United States. In fact, the only countries that deny climate change harder than America are I…

With summertime around the corner, many of us will be preparing for our family trips to our nations beloved national parks. You may wanna pack your face mask, though, because a new report shows just how widespread air pollution is in these seemingly pristine …

YouTube is where preschoolers go for their Baby Shark fix. Its where beauty bloggers rejoice as they unbox their new favorite lipstick. As it turns out, the websitemy 3-year-old nieces one and only true lovealso contributes to climate change in a fairly signi…

A Quebec high school French exam question that asked students about adapting to climate change has drawn a torrent of online criticism, as teens used memes and videos to denounce what they see as government inaction on climate issues. The question on last we…

Air conditioners require lots of energy to run, meaning they result in lots of greenhouse gas emissions. But maybe they dont have to?In a recently published Nature paper, researchers with the Institute for Micro Process Engineering in Germany have dreamt up a…