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New Framework can Help Perceive Impact of Greenhouse Effect on Climate Change

According to the Global Climate Change website of NASA, the temperature of the Earth has increased by 1.9 °F since 1880, and this trend is expected to continue further.

23 Jan 2020

Study Highlights Impact of Rising Global Temperatures on the Permafrost Region

Permafrost can be defined as the perpetually frozen subsoil that occurs in the northernmost regions of Earth. Since the last Ice Age, permafrost has been gathering and preserving animal and plant matter.

23 Jan 2020

New Research Finds Earth’s Oldest Asteroid Strike Linked to ‘Big Thaw’

Curtin University scientists have discovered Earth’s oldest asteroid strike occurred at Yarrabubba, in outback Western Australia, and coincided with the end of a global deep freeze known as a Snowball Earth.

23 Jan 2020

MIT Study Analyzes Outcomes of State-Level Renewable Energy and Carbon Pricing Policies

In the absence of federal adoption of climate change policy, states and municipalities in the United States have been taking action on their own.

23 Jan 2020

Mission to Space to Reveal the 'Truth' Behind Climate Change

Led by the UK, future space missions, known as Truths, will help reveal the true effects of climate change.

22 Jan 2020

Social Tipping Interventions can Help Meet Climate Agreement Targets

Reducing global warming to much less than 2 °C will, at the least, need a decarbonized world by 2050 and an equivalent universal transformation of the land use and energy systems of different communities in the world.

21 Jan 2020

Platypus on Brink of Extinction

Australia’s devastating drought is having a critical impact on the iconic platypus, a globally unique mammal, with increasing reports of rivers drying up and platypuses becoming stranded.

21 Jan 2020

Accelerating the Development of More Efficient Carbon Capture Technologies

A research team at the University of Alberta has come up with several methods that can save a great deal of time when producing highly efficient carbon capture technologies.

20 Jan 2020

Focusing on Decarbonization to Avoid Consequences of Climate Change

To avoid the most destructive consequences of climate change, the world's electric energy systems must stop producing carbon by 2050. It seems like an overwhelming technological, political, and economic challenge — but not to Nestor Sepulveda.

20 Jan 2020

Exodus Travels Commits to Fight Climate Change

Global adventure travel company, Exodus Travels has today announced they are one of the founding signatories of the ‘Tourism Declares a Climate Emergency’ pledge, in an effort to fight climate change and significantly reduce the growing environmental footprint of the tourism industry.

17 Jan 2020