Global Warming

At a time when misinformation seems to be ascendant, a decades-long effort aided by the scientific community is bearing fruit. Results published on 10 June show that the proportion of US secondary-school biology teachers who present creationism as a scientifically valid alternative to evolution fell from 32% in 2007 to…

Key in determining post-pandemic emissions is how governments choose to spend stimulus monies--whether they use it to prop up fossil fuel incumbents or bolster clean energy transitions already underway. Credit: angkhan The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns have led to a record crash in emissions. But it will be emission…

Image copyright EPA Image caption The spill now threatens a huge, pristine area of Arctic wilderness Diesel oil from a huge spill in Russia's Arctic north has polluted a large freshwater lake and there is a risk it could spread into the Arctic Ocean, a senior Russian official says. Emergency…

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Image copyright AFP Image caption The leaked diesel oil drifted some 12km (7.5 miles) from the site of the accident Russian prosecutors have ordered checks at "particularly dangerous installations" built on permafrost after a huge oil spill in the Arctic.An emergency was declared after 20,000 tonnes of diesel leaked into…

In mid-March, 33-year-old Daniel Thorson checked himself into a silent Buddhist meditation retreat in a remote part of Vermont. On May 23, two-and-a-half months later, he left the retreat and tweeted, "Did I miss anything?" After leaving the retreat, he stopped at a market, and that's when he realized things…

Small coastal waterbodies in the Arctic, especially ponds, are releasing carbon to the atmosphere. Credit: ArcticLagoons Arctic coastal watersheds are some of the most threatened regions on Earth, having undergone substantial climatic, physical and biological changes with the warming of the Earth, scientists have found. Now, researchers at the National…

One of the proposed ways to counter the effects of global warming is by using atmospheric aerosols to reflect heat away from the Earth, and a great deal of research is going into not just how this might work, but whether or not it is a good idea. A new…

MIT researchers find that extratropical storm tracks — the blue regions of storminess in the Earth's middle latitudes — would change significantly with solar geoengineering efforts. Credit: Massachusetts Institute of Technology How can the world combat the continued rise in global temperatures? How about shading the Earth from a portion…