As part of the Earth System Observatory, each satellite will be designed uniquely to work together and create a 3D, holistic view of Earth, from bedrock to atmosphere. As India prepares to tackle the upcoming Cyclone Yaas, disaster management has emerged as a critical part of the global agenda as climate change leads to increased …
Solar geoengineering — putting aerosols into the atmosphere to reflect sunlight and reduce global warming — is not a fix-all for climate change but it could be one of several tools to manage climate risks. A growing body of research has explored the ability of solar geoengineering to reduce physical climate changes. But much less …
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Mainly known as the pollution linked to cattle breeding (and thus to the meat we eat), methane represents the second source of global warming. Photo: AFP Taking action now to scale back our methane emissions could not only be a game-changer in the fight against global warming, but is also something completely within our reach, …
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Mining Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies could leave adverse impacts on the environment, some fear. Tesla CEO Elon Musk said, “We are concerned about rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels for Bitcoin mining and transactions, especially coal, which has the worst emissions of any fuel.” Tesla CEO Elon Musk, in what can only be called a …
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In caves on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, ancient peoples marked the walls with red and mulberry hand stencils, and painted images of large native mammals or imaginary human-animal creatures. These are the oldest cave art sites yet known — or at least the oldest attributed to our species. One painting of a Sulawesi warty pig …
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