Global Warming

How Niger’s military coup threatens efforts to root out extremist groups from Africa’s Sahel JUBA, South Sudan: Niger has become the third nation in the troubled Sahel region in as many years to suffer a military coup, causing concern among Western leaders and neighboring states over the repercussions for the…

A woman can be seen walking on a sunny day with an umbrella in a public place in this picture released on June 17, 2023. — Twitter/@AFPExtreme heat in Mexico claimed more than 100 lives in the month of June, according to the data released by Mexican health ministry, as…

Global warming continues to impact air quality around the world.   June 29, 2023 Read More

Ministers must create a hard-hitting taskforce to drive construction of a zero-carbon power network and step up the fight against global warming, a key report has urged. The Climate Change Committee report says the government needs to create a high-level infrastructure delivery group to take “swift action” to boost building…

Several times in recent weeks I've heard people suggest that Mother Nature has been speaking to us through that smoke endlessly drifting south from the still-raging Canadian wildfires. She's saying that she wants the coal, oil, and gas left in the ground, but I fear her message will have little more influence…

A Silent Fire: The Story of Inflammation, Diet, and Disease By Shilpa Ravella ’03  W.W. NORTON & CO., 2022, $30 The Transcendent Brain: Spirituality in the Age of Science By Alan Lightman, professor of the practice of the humanities   PANTHEON, 2023, $26 A Crisis Like No Other: Understanding and…

There are an estimated 24 million people who identify as LGBTQ in America—a likely undercount, as more and more people grow comfortable embracing themselves. And yet, despite that progress, Republicans like Minnesota state Senator Eric Lucero are working overtime to turn back the clock. “GLOBAL WARMING,” Lucero began in a…

Slabs of chicken meat grown from cells nurtured by scientists, rather than from birds raised and slaughtered by farmers, can now be sold in the United States. The U.S. Department of Agriculture greenlit two kinds of lab-grown chicken for the first time on Wednesday. The move makes the United States…

NEW YORK – Over the last few years, an ecosystem of climate pledges, groups and models has expanded on Wall Street in a bid to cut – or appear to cut – the financial industry’s role in global warming. But many of those efforts have had a limited impact on…

The greatest terrestrial carbon supplier to the atmosphere, carbon efflux from soils is nevertheless one of the Earth’s carbon budget’s least predictable fluxes. A dominant component of this flux is heterotrophic respiration- a process in which CO2 is released into the atmosphere- influenced by several environmental factors, notably soil temperature…