The US government on Tuesday formally pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 26-28 percent over 2005 levels within the next decade, ahead of a major climate conference later this year. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories
NASA’s Aqua satellite captured an image of Typhoon Maysak as it strengthened into a super typhoon on March 31, reaching Category 5 hurricane status on the Saffir-Simpson Wind Scale. The TRMM and GPM satellites, both satellites are co-managed by NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency captured rainfall and cloud Read Full Article Here For…
By Greg Laden A new study by Sarah Moffitt, Tessa Hill, Peter Roopnarine, and James Kennett (Response of seafloor ecosystems to abrubt global climate change) gets a handle on the effects of relatively rapid warming and associated Oxygen loss in the sea on invertebrate communities. The study looked at a recent warming Read Full Article…
By Emil Jeyaratnam and James Whitmore Environment Photo credit: Burning fossil fuels is still the greatest source of greenhouse gases. London Permaculture/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA What are countries really bringing to the negotiating table when the world Read Full Article Here For more great articles: IFLScience
By Bill Chappell The new target was submitted to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Tuesday. Part of a plan for a new international treaty, it would give the U.S. 10 years to reach its goal. » E-Mail This Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Science
By Mary Beth Griggs It isn’t often that environmental scientists get good news. But a new study in Nature Climate Change found that for the past few years, the earth has been getting a little… Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Popular Science
The US has pledged to tackle climate change by cutting its carbon emissions 26-28% by 2025. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: BBC News – Science & Environment
An international research team, led by a Virginia Tech geoscientist, has revealed information about how continents were generated on Earth more than 2.5 billion years ago—and how those processes have continued within the last 70 million years to profoundly affect the planet’s life and climate. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Phys.org –…
For four years, the state of California has experienced a devastating drought. It’s not just a little dry—according to scientists, it’s the worst drought in over a millennium, fueled by global climate change. Cali is in such dire straits that Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. just signed two emergency measures Read Full Article Here For…
For four years, the state of California has experienced a devastating drought. It’s not just a little dry—according to scientists, it’s the worst drought in over a millennium, fueled by global climate change. Cali is in such dire straits that Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. just signed two emergency measures Read Full Article Here For…