Global Warming

Climate change in the Arctic is shrinking the region's cap of sea ice.Credit: Arterra/Universal Images Group/Getty Gases that deplete the ozone layer could be responsible for up to half of the effects of climate change observed in the Arctic from 1955 to 200…

People on OKCupid are swiping right on climate actionor something? Ive never used a dating app. But I do know the company has filters so you can get rid of climate deniers when youre searching for someone, whether its The One or a one-night stand. In a viral…

January 17, 2020 2 min read This story originally appeared on PC MagMicrosoft is tackling global warming by pledging to remove more carbon out of the air than it generates by 2030. The ambitious plan to go "carbon negative" will entail Microsoft moving th…

A shocking new study notes that the amount of heat that has been put into the planet's oceans from human activity over the past 70 years is the equivalent of more than 3 billion atomic bombs. The research, published in journal Advances in Atmospheric Science…

These days, it feels like the climate apocalypse is not a distant reality, but something playing out before us in real time, with fires raging in Australia and oceans warming at rates equivalent to five atomic bombs dropping every second. We need major policy…

There is no doubt that it is very, very cold in Alberta right now. In fact, Environment Canada expanded extreme cold warnings across the entire province on Monday afternoon. Frigid Arctic air has swept across most of Western Canada, delivering bone-chilling…

Like a long-distance food delivery app with no apparent highway, fungi that associate with shallow-rooted shrubs in the tundra are accessing deep stores of nitrogen being released by thawing permafrost. The findings by Northern Arizona University researchers,…

Cardiff University scientists have shed new light on the Earth's climate behaviour during the last known period of global warming over 14 million years ago.During this period, known as the middle Miocene Climate Optimum, global temperatures were as much as 3 …

Image copyrightStevia Hellas CooperativeImage caption The Stevia Hellas Cooperative says its sale are rising by 12% per year Seven years ago, a group of Greek farmers stopped growing tobacco and switched to a trendy alternative to sugar - stevia. They mad…

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