Global Warming

Checking if the site connection is secure www.science.org needs to review the security of your connection before proceeding. Read More

Let's consider an example with an imaginary planet. In this solar system, the planet completes one orbit around its sun in 8.6 solar days, instead of 365 days, as the Earth does. (I'm using a shorter year because it magnifies the difference between solar and stellar days, so you can…

TSUKUBA, Japan, Sept 1, 2022 - (ACN Newswire) - A French-Japanese research collaboration has fabricated metal nanocomposite coatings that improve the insulating properties of window glasses. The new coating prevents a significant portion of near-infrared (NIR) and ultraviolet rays (UV) from passing through, while at the same time admitting visible…

A man carries usable belongings salvaged from his flood-hit home across a flooded area in Shikarpur district of Sindh province, of Pakistan, on Aug. 31.Fareed Khan/The Associated Press The UN weather agency is predicting that the phenomenon known as La Nina is poised to last through the end of this…

Before and after flooding in Gudpur, Pakistan, on Aug. 30, 2022. Satellite image ©2022 Maxar Technologies. Large parts of Pakistan's Sindh and Balochistan provinces are inundated by floodwaters, with normally dry land transformed into lakes when viewed from space. More than 1,000 people are dead, and 33 million affected after…

(RNS) — When I was young boy in the 1950s, cowboy movies were popular. It was easy to tell the good guys from the bad guys because, in the movies, the good guys wore white hats and rode white horses, and the bad guys wore black hats and rode dark…

Photos a) and b) show the observation equipment used in this study. They were taken from the ice and underwater, respectively. Photo c) shows the arrangement of the observation stations, taken from a helicopter looking downward. Here, the white, light blue, and dark blue areas are sea ice (or snow),…

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) has published research showing that snapping shrimp are sounding a warning about global warming. In a paper published in Frontiers in Marine Science, researchers found a direct correlation between the volume and frequency of the sounds made by two species of snapping shrimp and…

Sunrise in New Caledonia. — UnsplashAccording to a recent research study, most regions in the world will face "extreme heat" by the year 2100. The paper published in the journal Communications Earth and Environment  stated that the most vulnerable regions would be the tropics and subtropics. The Indian subcontinent, huge…

Scientists had long predicted that global warming would lead to more extreme weather - but what is concerning them now is the speed with which the records are tumbling A dried up lake in Wanstead Park, north east London (Image: PA) This week Britain is set for the second major…