Tag: climate change
The urgency of curbing pollution from ships, explained
James J. Winebrake, Rochester Institute of Technology and James J Corbett, University of Delaware
The International Maritime Organization, a United Nations agency that regulates global...
Buried, altered, silenced: 4 ways government climate information has changed since...
Morgan Currie, Stanford University and Britt S. Paris, University of California, Los Angeles
After Donald Trump won the presidential election, hundreds of volunteers around the...
Garbage in, garbage out: Incinerating trash is not an effective way...
Ana Baptista, The New School
U.S. cities have been burning municipal solid waste since the 1880s. For the first century, it was a way to...
As the Trump administration retreats on climate change, US cities are...
Katherine Levine Einstein, Boston University; David Glick, Boston University, and Maxwell Palmer, Boston University
Despite almost universal scientific consensus that climate change poses a growing...
As Arctic sea ice shrinks, new research shows how much energy...
Anthony Pagano, University of California, Santa Cruz
Polar bears live in a remote and inhospitable environment far from most human settlements. For most biologists, opportunities...
Is warming in the Arctic behind this year’s crazy winter weather?
Jennifer Francis, Rutgers University
Damage from extreme weather events during 2017 racked up the biggest-ever bills for the U.S. Most of these events involved conditions...
Many small island nations can adapt to climate change with global...
Martina Grecequet, University of Minnesota; Ian Noble, University of Notre Dame, and Jessica Hellmann, University of Minnesota
Island nations are on the front lines of...
Why were California’s wine country fires so destructive?
Jon Keeley, US Geological Survey
As of late October more than a dozen wildfires north of San Francisco had killed more than 40 people, burned...
EXPLORING NATURE
Geothermal energy has huge potential to generate clean power – including...
Moones Alamooti, University of North Dakota
As energy use rises and the planet warms, you might have dreamed of...
