'Mercury Bomb': A gift from climate change
What effects will the mercury bomb have on humans?
1w ago
124 years on, gender gap in Nobel Prize still persists
Clearly, the choice of who gets the Nobel Prize is heavily biased towards males.
1m ago
Is there a force called gravity?
Thanks to Einstein, we live in a universe of curved spaces and altered time.
3m ago
Are we coasting on the 'highway to climate hell'?
Earth could become an “uninhabitable hell” similar to Venus in just a few centuries, or even sooner.
4m ago
What will happen when the 'Doomsday Glacier' disintegrates?
As climate change drives global temperatures ever higher, glaciers and ice sheets will inevitably melt.
5m ago
Solar storm and aurora: A dazzling display of colourful lights
What causes an aurora? The root cause of an aurora is a solar storm, a dramatic blast of electromagnetic radiation from the Sun.
6m ago
Why is Bangladesh in the grip of a sizzling heatwave?
We should prepare ourselves for future heatwaves and help the most vulnerable people enduring the ongoing blistering heat.
7m ago
As I watched the tiny Moon devour the blazing Sun
This cosmic event delivered on the hype leading up to it with clockwork precision.
7m ago
May 26, 2019
Fusion: A safer nuclear option
It is obvious that global efforts to combat climate change—that were agreed upon at the 21st Conference of Parties in Paris—have already gone off the rails.
May 8, 2019
Cyclone Fani and global climate change
The temperature of the Earth changes over geologic time. During periods of glaciation, it was about five degrees Celsius cooler and in the interglacial period about five degrees warmer.
March 23, 2019
Who will pull us out of the climate change conundrum?
Every year since 1995, our leaders or their representatives met at the so-called Conference of Parties, debating climate change, global warming in particular.
February 10, 2019
Welcome to the age of climate change
Our planet is under tremendous stress. During the last week of January, major cities in the US Midwest and Northeast were colder than some regions in Antarctica.
January 1, 2019
COP24: All noise, no signals
Climate change has become a political football in the last 20 years. The “un”-stable American genius once mocked climate change as a Chinese hoax.
December 15, 2018
Killing the planet
Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, we have pumped nearly 2,000 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Moreover, in April of this year, the average concentration of carbon dioxide reached a dubious milestone—410 parts per million—according to data recorded at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. Carbon dioxide hasn't been this high in millions of years.
November 29, 2018
Discoveries that can clean up carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concedes that limiting the rise in global temperature under two degrees Celsius before the end of this century is impossible without reducing emission of carbon dioxide to zero by 2050.
November 11, 2018
Is the difference between 1.5 and 2 degrees Celsius a big deal?
Today, we are witnessing a lively, sometimes acrimonious, debate over global warming. Science, economics and politics are all mixed up in this debate.
October 26, 2018
Global warming is impacting how Earth spins on its axis
Anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions might be affecting more than just the climate. For the first time, scientists at NASA presented evidence that the orientation of the Earth's spin axis is changing because of global warming.
October 14, 2018
Harnessing the solar energy absorbed by the oceans
The world's oceans constitute a vast natural reservoir for receiving and storing solar energy. They take in solar energy in proportion to their surface area, nearly three times that of land. As the sun warms the oceans, it creates a significant temperature difference between the surface water and the deeper water to which sunlight doesn't penetrate.
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