Global Warming

Flooding along the Mississippi River is the worst its been since 1927. More than 50 tornadoes touched down during the Memorial Day weekend. In Denver, it snowed more than three inches last week.  Climate scientists say this is only the beginning of what will…

The Department of Energy appears to have a surprising new nickname for natural gas: “freedom gas.” The unexpected new moniker made its debut in a press release issued Tuesday to announce the approval of additional liquified natural gas (LNG) exports from a t…

A leading politician in Germany has been accused of censorship after she argued for the regulation of political views on the internet. Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, popularly known as AKK, made the proposal in face of an escalating dispute with the country's Yo…

In the spring of 2013, the Rockefeller Foundation—the 100-year-old charitable organization started by Standard Oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller–launched an ambitious program to help cities around the world adapt to the physical, social, and economic challenges …

Deceiving Ourselves About Global Warming?

Many people believe that if we maintain our current level of human-made carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, and we dont increase these emissions in the future, a safe equilibrium of CO2 levels can be reached. However, this overlooks the fact that as long as more …

In the past several months, people around the world have watched in awe as school students, led by the Swedish teen-ager Greta Thunberg, have taken their concerns about the climate crisis to a new level, with a series of one-day strikes. The latest took place…

The annual return of the Asian monsoons is one of nature’s great cycles of renewal. Each summer, the onset of the wet season brings much-needed rain to millions of people across the continent. But scientists have noticed a puzzling trend in recent decades. S…

Methane is a worse greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide Gary Greenberg/Getty By Adam Vaughan Levels of a powerful greenhouse gas jumped again last year, continuing a surge in the past few years that researchers still cannot fully explain. Atmospheric concen…

What's Going On? Atmospheric CO2 measurements at the Mauna Loa observatory (where CO2 concentration has been measured since the 1950s) topped 415 ppm last week, and levels continue to rise steadily. The last time Earth's atmosphere had this much carbon, mast…