What’s the Largest Current on Earth? It Moves More Water Than Every River Combined—Many Times Over
Antarctic Circumpolar Current. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Earth’s mightiest current has no banks. The Antarctic Circumpolar Current, or ACC,…
CO2 in human blood is rising with the atmosphere
For most of human evolution, the air held about 300 parts per million of carbon dioxide. It has…
Study suggests life on Earth has around 1.8 billion years left — but the biosphere might evolve to survive…
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In 2025, Data Centers Used More Power Than Most Nations
The environmental footprint of data centers already rivals some of the world’s largest countries, according to a…
Scientists Discover Major Errors in Al Gore-Founded Climate Pollution Database
Researchers examining urban transportation emissions uncovered major discrepancies between two leading carbon-tracking systems, with some cities showing unexpectedly…
Earth’s Upper Atmosphere Is Cooling Fast and Scientists Finally Know Why
Earth’s surface is warming, but the upper atmosphere has been cooling for decades, and scientists now understand why.…
New Study Shows Risks of Amazon Deforestation. And Rewards of Protection.
If deforestation and global warming continue unchecked, the Amazon rainforest could begin a gradual transition to a degraded,…
Scientists Just Made Carbon Capture Much Cheaper and Easier
This image created using Gemini Pro, depicts an activated carbon fiber functionalized with amine groups (–NH2) at adjacent…
NASA discovers massive interstellar glaciers hiding in space
Imagine glaciers the size of entire star systems just floating in space. Actual frozen reservoirs stretching across hundreds…
Report Shows Earth’s Climate is Out of Balance, as Indicators Hit New Extremes
The world is in a state of climate emergency, the head of the United Nations declared Sunday, following…
Think planting trees will save the planet from global warming? Science says it’s not that simple |
Planting trees is often described as a simple way to deal with climate change. The idea is easy…
Baltimore explosion injures several people at bottling plant
Several people hurt in East Baltimore equipment explosion at Coca-Cola bottling plant Updated: 6:52 PM EDT Mar 8,…