Melting Ice Makes The Arctic A Much Worse Heat-Magnet Than Scientists Feared
CREDIT: SHUTTERSTOCK Arctic ice provides more than just homes for fish and mammals — it also slows global warming. Dwindling sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is creating large areas of relatively dark...
View ArticleSolar Power For CAlifornia
CREDIT: AP PHOTO/BOB LEVERONE The Obama administration on Wednesday announced that it has given final approval to two sizable solar projects on public lands near the Nevada-California border, which...
View ArticleWhere Does Your Food Come From?
California, supplier of nearly half of all US fruits, veggies, and nuts, is on track to experience thedriest year in the past half millennium. Farms use about 80 percent of the state’s “developed...
View ArticleResearchers Find Four New Artificial Gases That Are Harming The Ozone Layer...
A new report in the journal Nature Geoscience has identified traces of four man-made gases in the atmosphere that are capable of destroying the ozone layer and exacerbating climate change. According to...
View ArticleParis Taken Over By Smog
The Eiffel Tower, is barely seen through the smog from Paris, Friday, March 14, 2014. Air pollution that has turned Paris skies a murky yellow is giving a break to millions of French travelers for all...
View ArticleHow Oceans Could Power The Future
In February, a natural gas power plant along the Central California coast closed after operating for more than 50 years, thus ending an era that saw the surrounding community of Morro Bay grow up...
View ArticleWhy Listening To Scientists Could’ve Minimized The Tragic Impact Of The...
A flag, put up by volunteers helping search the area, stands in the ruins of a home left at the end of a deadly mudslide from the now-barren hillside seen about a mile behind, Tuesday, March 25, 2014,...
View ArticleArctic Sea Ice Cover Was Fifth Lowest On Record This Year
Just as much of the Northeast is beginning to emerge from one of the longest deep freezes in recent memory, in the Arctic, sea ice has finally reached its maximum extent for the year. The National Snow...
View ArticleCarbon Dioxide Levels Just Hit Their Highest Point In 800,000 Years
The concentration of carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas that drives climate change, hit 402 parts per million this week — the highest level recorded in at least 800,000 years. The recordings came from...
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