Global Warming

Biswajeet Banerjee and Rishabh R. Jain  |  Associated Press RUDRAPRAYAG, India – Rescuers in northern India were working Monday to rescue more than three dozen power plant workers trapped in a tunnel after part of a Himalayan glacier broke off and sent a wall of water and debris rushing down…

Investigation of coral reefs in the Paracel Islands suggest the South China Sea began warming up in 1825, researchers say Uranium dating shows samples have a continuous climate record going back to 1520 Published: 9:30pm, 7 Feb, 2021 Updated: 9:30pm, 7 Feb, 2021 Read More

From the moment life arose on our planet, death trailed close behind. During the Permian mass extinction 250 million years ago, it almost caught up. They don’t call it the “Great Dying” for nothing —  95 percent of marine species and three-quarters of land species perished, as the largest volcanic…

Historical photographs (first three views) and satellite images show how Lake Palcacocha has grown as the glacier has receded. The lake is now about 34 times its volume in 1970. Credit: Stuart-Smith et al./Nature Geoscience As the planet warms, glaciers are retreating and causing changes in the world's mountain water…

Capitol Police officers want plans for how to deal with protests after the January 6 attack.  Several officers told CNN they received conflicting information during the attack.  Union officials are also preparing a vote of "no confidence" on the department's leadership.  Visit the Business section of Insider for more stories.…

Rostam has shared his new single 'These Kids We Knew' in full. The songwriter recently returned with 'Unfold You', which exemplified the rich vein of emotion in his work. New single 'These Kids We Knew' broadens this, sonically recalling aspects of Paul Simon, say, in its yearning classicism. A song…

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There are fossils, found in ancient marine sediments and made up of no more than a few magnetic nanoparticles, that can tell us a whole lot about the climate of the past, especially episodes of abrupt global warming. Now, researchers including doctoral student Courtney Wagner and associate professor Peter Lippert…

On Monday, Bloomberg reported that multinational oil company ExxonMobil has recently planned to increase its carbon dioxide emissions 17 percent by 2025 while doubling its earnings. According to internal documents obtained by Bloomberg reporters, the company’s seven-year, $217 billion investment plan would see it expand its core oil and gas…

Projected and planned levels of global oil, natural gas and coal production are way out of step with the kind of emissions cuts needed to hold global warming significantly in check, a new analysis shows.Why it matters: The "production gap" report from the UN's environment agency and other researchers provides…