Global Warming

It is not unusual to come across headlines about pollution or global warming and find that they reach different conclusions depending upon the data source. Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis used a harmonized approach, incorporating data from multiple satellites and ground monitors with computer modeling to compile a…

Calculated trends in geophysical PM2.5 values from 1998–2018. Warm colors indicate positive trends, cool colors indicate negative trends and the opacity of the colors indicates the statistical significance of the trends. Credit: Martin Lab It is not unusual to come across headlines about pollution or global warming and find that…

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Credit: CC0 Public Domain Many countries are failing to comply with the non-binding commitments of the Paris Agreement, making it increasingly clear that we have to reconsider how to ensure collective action to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees C above preindustrial levels. A new IIASA-led study supports…

The novelist William Golding suggested to James Lovelock that he name his now-famous hypothesis after the Greek goddess of the Earth, Gaia. It was a good fit: Lovelock believed that the living and inanimate parts of the Earth formed a single, interacting, and self-regulating system. Lovelock’s work grew, in part,…

Pierre Dutrieux preparing a Seaglider for deployment in front of the Dotson Ice Shelf, West Antarctica, during a summer 2018 research expedition. Credit: Pierre Dutrieux Antarctica is rapidly shedding ice, a loss that contributes to rising seas. Research demonstrates that human-induced global climate change and warming ocean temperatures are the…

Melting ice in the Arctic Ocean is a bellwether for climate change, an apt illustration of environmental changes in a warming world. Credit: Zhangxian Ouyang New research by University of Delaware doctoral student Zhangxian Ouyang and oceanographer Wei-Jun Cai, and an international team of researchers, demonstrates that rapid warming and…

SPRUCE study site for studying effects of warming temperatures on peatland. Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory Warming temperatures in cold-climate peatlands may over time trigger decomposition of old, deeply buried peat and increase emissions of climate-harming methane and carbon dioxide into the air, according to a study led by a…

by William D'Angelo , posted on 13 June 2020 / 1,411 Views Developer Red Thread Games has announced story-driven action adventure game Dustborn for the Xbox Series X, PlayStation 5 and PC via Steam. It will launch in 2021. View the announcement trailer below: Here is an overview of the game: There…

Back when feminism was mainstreaming, and it seemed like the conversation was finally going to turn toward how do we start to think about women as human beings, rather than as mothers/sexual objects/… Read More