Sci-fi is full of lasers and spaceflight, holograms and super soldiers, all varying in their believability. But fiction doesn’t always mean far-fetched, and fantasy doesn’t have to be fantastical. Somewhere…
Continue readingBy Donna Lu Rock art at Leang Sakapao in Indonesia Linda Siagian Degradation of ancient rock art in Indonesia may be accelerating due to climate change. The Maros-Pangkep karst, a…
Continue readingSteven Koonin, a former undersecretary for science of the Department of Energy in the Obama administration, but more recently considered for an advisory post to Scott Pruitt when he was…
Continue readingThe US Environmental Protection Agency’s Climate Change Indicators website, which explains different facets of our ever-warming planet, had laid dormant since the end of 2016, right before Donald Trump became…
Continue readingFrost on Arabidopsis thaliana — new discovery may help us grow crops in fluctuating climate. Credit: John Innes Centre The first frost of autumn may be grim for gardeners but…
Continue readingBetween 1977 and 2014, 80 percent of ExxonMobil’s internal research supported the idea that human activity was a contributor to climate change. But during that same period, 80 percent of…
Continue readingElon Musk’s surprise announcement that Tesla would stop supporting bitcoin amid fears over the environmental impact of cryptocurrency has led to new interest in digital currencies that might prove more sustainable. In…
Continue readingClimate is emerging as one of the focal points in this week’s infrastructure negotiations. President Biden is meeting today with Republican lawmakers led by West Virginia Sen. Shelley Moore Capito,…
Continue readingTrees may seem sedentary, but movement is a big part of their lives. To reproduce, many trees rely on wind to move their pollen and seeds around, says Matthew Kling,…
Continue readingSmithsonian Voices National Museum of Natural History Why Plants are Seeding Climate Studies May 6th, 2021, 6:00AM / BY Abigail Eisenstadt Through research on living and preserved plants, botanists are…
Continue readingIf Paris Agreement targets are not met, the collapse of melting Antarctic ice shelves — like the Wilkins Ice Shelf in 2009 — could cause catastrophic global sea level rise…
Continue readingThe true measure of President Biden’s climate ambition may be the clean electricity standard he tucked into his massive $2.2 trillion infrastructure spending plan. Its goal is striking: 80% clean…
Continue readingCourtesy of Union Of Concerned Scientists By Juan Declet-Barreto, Climate Vulnerability Social Scientist, co-authored by Dr. Adi Martínez-Román with the University of Puerto Rico Resiliency Law Center. Islands and their people…
Continue readingWhen the website ArtStation announced plans to start offering NFTs, short for non-fungible tokens, the last thing it expected was backlash. But within hours of tweeting about its intentions, that’s…
Continue readingOriginally published on ILSR.org Can a utility company be carbon neutral by 2050 if it builds a gas plant now? Maybe if it shuts off the gas plant well before…
Continue readingBut – and this is a big one – ultimately your target is only ever as good as the plan to achieve it. And this is where we, as the…
Continue readingPredicting the weather can be a frustratingly imprecise science. The weather app on your phone is pretty good at forecasting if it’s likely to rain at some point during a…
Continue readingMountain Ringlet butterfly. Credit: Melissa Minter, University of York UK landowners and conservationists welcome wider-spread use of Gene Conservation Units (GCUs) to help protect some of the rarest plants and…
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