Ask A Glaciologist: This Is What To Do About Climate Change

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2024 20:41:43 +0000

Glaciologist Dr. Heïdi Sevestre shares her insights on climate change following a dangerous expedition to the Arctic led by free soloist Alex Honnold.

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How A Modest Investment Could Save A Glacier In Greenland

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2024 23:53:26 +0000

The Jakobshavn glacier in Greenland is melting fast. Is there a way to save it and should we even try? It’s a conundrum.

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High School Student Invents Biofuel Solution For Sugar Shortage

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2023 13:43:27 +0000

As a sugar shortage looms, a high school student in Zimbabwe discovers that biofuel could be made from common reeds instead of sugarcane.

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The Growing Impact of Attribution Science in Climate Science

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2023 03:15:01 +0000

Attribution science, which is about understanding the role of climate change versus natural weather patterns and climate variability, can help us better understand the connections between extreme weather and climate change, provide new insight into what specific emissions are driving the worst impacts, and help shape climate solutions. Two types of climate attribution science — […]

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NASA: 2022 Was 5th-Warmest Year On Record

Credit to Author: NASA| Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2023 03:01:25 +0000

2022 effectively tied for Earth’s 5th warmest year since 1880, and the last 9 consecutive years have been the warmest 9 on record. NASA looks back at how heat was expressed in different ways around the world in 2022. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Kathleen Gaeta Editor’s Note: This release was updated Thursday, Jan. 12 to […]

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High-Res Maps Of Entire Polar Regions Provide Clues For Climate Researchers

Credit to Author: Tim Tyler| Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2022 15:57:22 +0000

Four more years of high-resolution imagery data have been released to show the polar regions in stunning detail, thanks to a hard-working team of researchers at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities. The new images have been added to eight years of previous data, which introduce the most detailed polar region terrain maps ever created. Using […]

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One Earth Climate Model Shows How To Cut Global Emissions

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 04 May 2022 00:24:14 +0000

One Earth climate solutions electric vehicles solar powerHuman society will not look the same in 2050 as it does today. We all know that. What we don’t know yet is how much it will be destroyed and disrupted by an out-of-control climate catastrophe. Various scientists and policymakers have tried to determine and show the best path forward to limit the catastrophe, to […]

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Summer Heat Is Coming: Will New Policies Protect Workers?

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2022 01:25:42 +0000

Urban trees can suck carbon out of the air and help protect people from heat National Park Service, Public DomainAs I write this, it’s 83 degrees Fahrenheit in Washington, DC, and I can’t help but long for those years when I was a kid, when spring felt like spring and seasons were demarcated. Each year, summer-like temperatures arrive all too soon during spring, thanks to human-induced climate change. Research finds that even if we halt heat-trapping […]

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