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climatology
2024-07-29 @ 19.40.51 ∈ In English
What will climate feel like in 60 years?
To find places that have a climate today most similar to the expected future climate in your city, the web app uses some fancy number crunching for thousands of cities, towns, and suburbs across the globe to answer the question: If I wanted to experience what my city’s climate is expected to be like in the future, where should I go? We suspect the answer will surprise you.
2024-04-26 @ 16.25.43 ∈ In English
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Carbon Offsets Don’t Work. Here’s Why
Individuals, companies and governments “offset” carbon emissions by paying to plant trees or fund solar panels in one place, so they can emit them elsewhere. Carbon credits are exchanged in the open market with the idea that carbon prices will go up – forcing companies to emit less. Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant looks at why carbon offsets may not solve the climate crisis.
2023-11-20 @ 16.33.07 ∈ In English
Opinion | I’m a Climate Scientist. I’m Not Screaming Into the Void Anymore.
Some politicians now actually campaign on climate change, instead of ignoring or lying about it. Congress passed federal climate legislation — something I’d long regarded as impossible — in 2022 as we turned in the first draft. And while the report stresses the urgency of limiting warming to prevent terrible risks, it has a new message, too: We can do this.
2023-06-16 @ 18.04.59 ∈ In English
We’ve pumped so much groundwater that we’ve nudged the Earth’s spin, says new study
By pumping water out of the ground and moving it elsewhere, humans have shifted such a large mass of water that the Earth tilted nearly 80 centimeters (31.5 inches) east between 1993 and 2010 alone, according to a new study published in Geophysical Research Letters.
2023-06-10 @ 19.37.00 ∈ In English
Hidden carbon: Fungi and their ‘necromass’ absorb one-third of the carbon emitted by burning fossil fuels every year
[New] research shows [mycorrhizal fungi] may quietly be playing a bigger role in storing carbon than we thought. [Researchers] estimate the world's plants are transferring a staggering 3.58 billion tonnes of carbon per year to this underground network.
