Global Warming

The picture above depicts the Mississippi River flowing into the Gulf of Mexico. According to researchers at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, river sediments and ocean currents helped simple sea life in the Gulf survive a deep-ocean mass extinction 56 million years ago. Credit: U.S. Geological Survey Research…

published : 28 Jul 2022 at 18:45 'We are seeing a change in our climate, whether that's temperature, precipitation, sea level rise,' the RMS says. LONDON: Sea levels are increasing around Britain at a far faster rate than a century ago, while the country is warming slightly more than the…

Efforts to make flying greener mostly count carbon dioxide emissions only, but modelling shows this ignores 90 per cent of future flights’ contribution to climate change Environment 25 July 2022 By Adam Vaughan Planes queueing for take-off in Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport, China Jingying Zhao/Getty Images Future flights will endanger…

Emissions of greenhouse gases contribute significantly to global warming. Not only carbon dioxide (CO2) but also fluorine-containing gases -- including so-called per- or polyfluorinated hydrocarbons, or PFCs -- have a significant share in this development. Researchers at the Institute of Organic Chemistry of Heidelberg University led by Prof. Dr Michael…

The Northern Hemisphere is hot this week. Very hot. In London, temperatures climbed above 104 degrees Fahrenheit for the first time in recorded history. It was enough to melt the runway at a British air force base. In southwestern France, wildfires rampaged. In Portugal, the health ministry attributed 700 deaths to heat.…

President Joe Biden, 79, declared he has cancer on July 20 during a speech about global warming. The seemingly nonchalant comment came as the president spoke about the harmful emissions from oil refineries near his childhood home in Claymont, Del. “That’s why I and so damn many other people I…

Soaring temperatures across China, India, Pakistan, Japan, the US and Europe are endangering people’s health and countries’ energy grids Cooling buildings and warming the planet could become a vicious cycle, potentially blowing the world’s ‘energy budget’ needed to limit the global temperature rise to 2 degrees Read More

LA TESTE-DE-BUCH, France (AP) — A heat wave broiling Europe spilled northward Monday to Britain and fueled ferocious wildfires in Spain and France, which evacuated thousands of people and scrambled water-bombing planes and firefighters to battle flames spreading through tinder-dry forests. Two people were killed in the blazes in Spain…

A wide-ranging new Pew Research Center poll shows large age-related divides in Republicans' views on global warming. Driving the news: Nearly half of Republicans (or who "lean" Republican) age 18-29 say the federal government is doing too little on the topic. But as you can see above, this concern drops…

A schematic diagram indicating that warming causes a northward shift in the southern limit of the temperate seagrass Zostera marina. Credit: IOCAS Global warming has caused an increase of the average upper ocean temperature by 0.07°C per decade. These temperature increases affect marine species and ecosystems in many ways, including enhanced…