Global Warming

Researchers have announced that the concentration of carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere is now at levels not seen for at least 2.5 million years. We can all now claim part of the dubious honour of living in a time no other humans have ever experienced.…

In the Chinese science fiction film The Wandering Earth, recently released on Netflix, humanity attempts to change the Earths orbit using enormous thrusters in order to escape the expanding sun and prevent a collision with Jupiter. The scenario may one day c…

These iconic animals aren’t dying out Minden Pictures/Alamy By Michael Le Page Who has said koalas are “functionally extinct”?The Australian Koala Foundation, which lobbies for the animals protection, has put out a press release stating that it believes ko…

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has declared that skyscrapers made of glass and steel “have no place in our city or our Earth anymore.” He argued that their energy inefficient design contributes to global warming and insisted that his administration would restr…

Melbourne, Australia - Non-renewable fossil fuels still account for about  85 percent of Australia's electricity generation. But with 2019 bringing the hottest summer on record and increasing extreme weather events, many voters are calling for change as the c…

Students protesting for greater action on climate change in March.Credit: DAN PELED/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock For the fourth time in little more than a decade, an Australian election features a fierce battle over climate-change policy. Analysts say the result wil…

There is more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than there has been for 800,000 years — since before our species evolved. On Saturday (May 11), the levels of the greenhouse gas reached 415 parts per million (ppm), as measured by the National Oceanic and Atmos…

Were officially living on a planet with an atmosphere no previous human being has ever experienced. Youll probably be able to say the same thing tomorrow. Carbon dioxide levels recorded at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii reached 415 parts per million on …

Luckily, Ikea’s innovation lab Space10 is publishing a cookbook called Future Food Today to help. Packed with about two dozen recipes that rely on what the lab calls “future foods”–like microalgae and mealworms–the cookbook is desig…

Comparison of global climatologies confirms warming of the global ocean