Tag: climate change
New evidence that an extraterrestrial collision 12,800 years ago triggered an...
Christopher R. Moore, University of South Carolina
What kicked off the Earth’s rapid cooling 12,800 years ago?
In the space of just a couple of years,...
In fire-prone California, many residents can’t afford wildfire insurance
Gireesh Shrimali, Stanford University
California’s relatively quiet 2019 fire season ended in October. Just days after Pacific Gas & Electric cut power to half a...
More frequent and intense tropical storms mean less recovery time for...
Hans Paerl, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Tropical cyclones – storms that bring strong, rotating winds and rain, and which can intensify into...
Leave ’em laughing instead of crying: Climate humor can break down...
Maxwell Boykoff, University of Colorado Boulder
Climate change is not inherently funny. Typically, the messengers are serious scientists describing how rising greenhouse gas emissions are...
Rising seas threaten hundreds of Native American heritage sites along Florida’s...
Jayur Mehta, Florida State University and Tara Skipton, Florida State University
Native North Americans first arrived in Florida approximately 14,550 years ago. Evidence for these...
‘Always sticking to your convictions’ sounds like a good thing –...
Michael Patrick Lynch, University of Connecticut
There is nothing wrong with strong opinions. They are healthy in a democracy – an apathetic electorate is an...
Youth climate movement puts ethics at the center of the global...
Marion Hourdequin, Colorado College
Even if you’ve never heard of Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish environmentalist who crossed the Atlantic on a sailboat to attend...
5 charts show how your household drives up global greenhouse gas...
Morteza Taiebat, University of Michigan and Ming Xu, University of Michigan
As the public conversation about climate change gets increasingly serious, many Americans may be...
EXPLORING NATURE
Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...
Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma
