A free, massively open online course (MOOC) on Understanding the Brain: The Neurobiology of Everyday Life will begin Monday, April 28, and it will include what may become the world’s largest... Read more
“Could potentially cut the cost of capturing carbon dioxide by as much as 1000 times.” Researchers in Japan have engineered a membrane with advanced features capable of removing... Read more
The strongest trade winds have driven more of the heat from global warming into the oceans; but when those winds slow, that heat will rapidly return to the atmosphere causing an abrupt rise... Read more
“In the past five years or so, geoengineering has moved from the realm of quackery to being the subject of scientific research” Hacking the Earth’s climate to counteract global warming – a s... Read more
The high cliffs of Eastern Siberia – which mainly consist of permafrost – continue to erode at an ever quickening pace. This is the conclusion which scientists of the Alfred Wegener Institut... Read more
A statement by the U.N.-convened group suggests that tinkering with the atmosphere could be necessary to meet climate goals Attempts to counter global warming by modifying Earth’s atmo... Read more
Further delay in the implementation of comprehensive international climate policies could substantially increase the short-term costs of climate change mitigation. Global economic growth wou... Read more
Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) can reverse the global warming trend and push temperatures back below the global target of 2°C above pre-industrial levels, even if current... Read more
Fossil fuel companies have been funding smear campaigns that raise doubts about climate change, writes John Sauven in the latest issue of Index on Censorship magazine. Environmental campaign... Read more
It may be the 21st century, but nearly half the world’s population still cooks and heats with open fires or primitive stoves that burn wood, animal dung, charcoal and other polluting solid f... Read more
Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) are to blame for global warming since the 1970s and not carbon dioxide, according to new research from the University of Waterloo published in the International Jo... Read more
Organisms may one day turn an electrical current into a rich source of organic compounds for biofuels. The reason we’re hooked on oil, and its climate warming derivatives, is the astonishing... Read more
Seeding the oceans with iron may not address carbon emissions Numerous geo-engineering schemes have been suggested as possible ways to reduce levels of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide in t... Read more
New study suggests that solar geoengineering can be tailored to reduce inequality or to manage specific risks like the loss of Arctic sea ice By tailoring geoengineering efforts by region an... Read more
Can an abundance of sea otters help reverse a principal cause of global warming? Hearty appetite allows kelp forests to thrive and absorb CO2 A new study by two UC Santa Cruz researchers sug... Read more
