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Gas Leaks — Emissions pinned on natural sources are probably our fault instead. Scott K. Johnson - Feb 20, 2020 6:14 pm UTC It’s called the “bomb curve”—a drastic spike in the amount of radioactive (but harmless) carbon-14 in the atmosphere, ushered in by the nuclear age. Scientists can sometimes…

In a new paper, climate scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution propose that massive amounts of melting sea ice in the Arctic drained into the North Atlantic and disrupted climate-steering currents, thus playing an important role in causing past abrupt climate change after the…

Flames from a flaring pit near a well in the Bakken Oil Field. The primary component of natural gas is methane, which is odorless when it comes directly out of the gas well. Orjan F. Ellingvag / Corbis / Getty Images The oil and gas industry may be contributing even…

Main Blog > 8 Hilarious Historical Feuds Peary, left, and CookIf you had to name the first person to reach the North Pole, you would probably say Robert Peary. But we may never know for sure, as Peary was in a race against Frederick A. Cook. Both men set out…

On Feb. 18, 2020, an article positing that 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg had enraged U.S. President Donald Trump with his purchase of Greenland was published to “The Borowitz Report” section of The New Yorker: Bloomberg Enrages Trump by Buying Greenland In an apparently successful attempt to get under…

AbstractAtmospheric methane (CH4) is a potent greenhouse gas, and its mole fraction has more than doubled since the preindustrial era1. Fossil fuel extraction and use are among the largest anthropogenic sources of CH4 emissions, but the precise magnitude of these contributions is a subject of debate2,3. Carbon-14 in CH4 (14CH4)…

The earth's population is not spread out equally over its surface, as you probably know. The population density of Greenland, for example, is just 0.1/sq. mi—that is, one person living on every ten square miles of rock and ice. But it's a lot easier to find company in Manila, which…

You’ve saved money to go to that great photo spot, marked your calendar, put in for vacation time, and are already thinking about the photos you want to make. The trouble is, you’ve never been there. Your time will be limited. You want to be able to use it to…

Due to reduced sea ice, polar bears in Baffin Bay are getting thinner, having fewer babies, and spending more time on land than they did in the 1990s, new research shows. The new study in Ecological Applications includes satellite tracking and visual monitoring of polar bears in the 1990s compared with…

Manchester United's latest signing Odion Ighalo has been forced to train away from the club's other players amid fears he may have the coronavirus. The BBC report that the former Chinese Super League striker has been omitted from United's winter training cam…