Forest Restoration, Not Plantations, Will Curb Warming
Forest restoration efforts are a far more effective strategy for sequestering atmospheric carbon than monoculture plantations.
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Frequent Rainstorms Predicted with Climate Change
By Neha Jain @lifesciexplore If you live in California, you might recall the powerful winter rainstorm of 2014, dubbed the…
What Happens When Antarctica Melts?
By Kate Stone Between December 2001 and February 2002, the Antarctic continent underwent a season of intense melting. Aside from…
Global Warming: What’s Really Warming the Earth?
Dr. Joe Hanson explores the possible causes of global warming in this episode of It’s Okay To Be Smart. …
Climate Change Strikes Totten Glacier in Antarctica
Totten Glacier is losing ice, and the warm ocean water causing this has the potential to also push the glacier back to an unstable place.
Tracking Climate Change Through Hibernating Toads
By Neha Jain @lifesciexplore Have you ever wondered how animals are coping with warming temperatures? Our warming planet affects the…
Climate Change: Why Don’t We Worry More?
“If we could invent one risk that bypasses all of our psychological alarm systems, global climate change would be it,”…
Small Metal Stove Grate Makes Big Impact
An inexpensive metal stove grate insert for primitive cookstoves, created by a University of Iowa research team, may decrease global…
More Heat Waves Predicted in Next 20 Years
By Kate Stone Scientists have developed a new method to more accurately measure and predict heat waves, and the results…
Braving the Amazon to Study Climate Change
By Jonathan Trinastic (@jptrinastic) Scientists may not be known as the most courageous folk. They deserve such recognition, given their history…