Global Warming

A displaced family wades through a flooded area after heavy rainfall, in Jaffarabad, Pakistan. Photo / AP Climate change likely worsened rainfall by up to 50 per cent late last month in two southern Pakistan provinces. But global warming wasn't the biggest cause of the country's catastrophic flooding that has…

SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer Sep. 15, 2022Updated: Sep. 20, 2022 1:42 a.m. Now Playing: Pakistani naval personnel on Thursday assisted in supplying vital aid to residents affected by flooding in Sindh province. The military were seen loading rubber boats with supplies in Dadu and sailing them to areas where people had…

The Biden administration said Wednesday it has approved ambitious plans by 34 states and Puerto Rico to create a national electric vehicle charging network as the U.S. begins in earnest its transition away from gas-powered transportation. The plans’ approval means $900 million can begin to flow to the states, which are tasked…

As heat waves, wildfires, floods, water shortages, and droughts ravage the country, Republicans have been forced to abandon climate denial. I recently noted that Republicans had switched from denial to delay—the idea that global warming is happening, it’s just not an urgent problem right now—a stance in which they are…

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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…