Global Warming

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…

Researchers at the University of Oxford have confirmed that human activity and other external factors are responsible for the rise in global temperature. While this has been the consensus of the scientific community for a long time, uncertainty remained aroun…

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Most plans to tackle climate change revolve around cutting down on carbon dioxide, usually by reducing human emissions. But an unconventional new idea could actually slow the progress of global warming by putting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere—while…