Global Warming

Image copyright MARTIN OLLMAN Image caption The 2019-2020 fire season was particularly challenging for Australia Scientists have published the first assessment quantifying the role of climate change in the recent Australian bushfires.Global warming boosted the risk of the hot, dry weather that's likely to cause bushfires by at least 30%,…

Tropical rainforests such as the Amazon are among the most effective carbon sinks the Earth has gifted us with.Photo: GettyAs hopeless as solving the climate crisis can feel, solutions exist today. Realistic ones that wouldn’t be costly. In fact, they’d make us richer than if we continue to ignore the…

The wheels are pushed well to the corners to maximize space in the interior, which has plenty of the tech you'd expect in a concept EV. Joysticks are used to control it in place of a steering wheel and have buttons that let the driver access various functions. It's also…

(BERLIN) — Scientists say that half of the world’s sandy beaches could disappear by the end of the century if climate change continues unchecked. Researchers at the European Union’s Joint Research Center in Ispra, Italy, used satellite images to track the way beaches have changed over the past 30 years…

Washington (CNN)An Interior Department official pushed misleading information about climate change into the agency's reports, according to The New York Times, at a time when the Trump administration has rolled back environmental protection regulations and repeatedly downplayed the effects of the climate crisis. Citing emails and documents from the department,…

Methane is a gas that deserves more attention in the climate debate as it contributes to almost half of human-made global warming in the short-term. A new IIASA study shows that it is possible to significantly contribute to reduced global warming through the implementation of available technology that limits methane…

According to The Verge, the updated veggie meatballs will be made out of apples, oats, peas and potatoes. They'll be available both as an in-restaurant meal and a frozen package to make at home. IKEA hopes that the new taste will be more attractive to meat eaters, and help them…

An edge of Thwaites Glacier. Image: NASA / James Yungel / Edited by Stuart Rankin By Mark Kaufman2020-02-27 11:00:00 UTC Some 8,000 miles from the elegantly carpeted U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., lies an eerie, dark, underwater place — a place that threatens to redraw maps all over the globe. This…

So far in short-lived 2020, Antarctic scientists measured warm waters eating away at the planet's most threatening glacier, Earth experienced its warmest January in over 140 years of record-keeping, and the Australian Navy rescued 1,000 residents trapped by the nation's historic, climate-enhanced fires.  Sen. Bernie Sanders has an ambitious, though…

(SALEM, Ore.) — Republican lawmakers on Monday boycotted the Oregon Legislature, denying Democrats a quorum in an attempt to doom a contentious climate change bill. Senate Majority Leader Ginny Burdick, a Democrat from Portland, accused Republican senators of “a dereliction of duty.” “These Oregon Senate Republicans are denying their constituents…