March 31, 2024
The next big climate deadline is for meat and dairy
March 31, 2024
The next big climate deadline is for meat and dairy
What is it with scientists and clocks? Yes, determining the duration of phenomena is important to research, not to forget seemingly unconnected realms like navigation — Britain ruled the waves for centuries, thanks to John Harrison’s clock, accurate time-keeping being the key to determining longitude. Clocks also serve science as metaphor — start with Albert […]
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Scientists from NOAA, NASA and 21 universities from three countries are deploying state-of-the-art instruments in multiple, coordinated research campaigns this month to investigate how air pollution sources have shifted over recent decades. Since the 1970s, U.S. scientists and environmental regulators made significant strides in reducing air pollution by cleaning up tailpipe and smokestack emissions. Yet levels of […]
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Why is sea level rising? So on global scales, sea level is rising really because of our warming climate. There’s two main factors causing sea level to change. The first is what we call thermal expansion. So as more heat gets trapped by the atmosphere, a lot of that heat gets absorbed by the ocean. […]
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SWOT satellite will bounce radar off water bodies to give scientists a new window into climate change and the global water cycle. From swirling ocean eddies that help shape the global climate to millions of lakes and rivers, scientists are about to get an unprecedented view of Earth’s water. The US$1.2-billion Surface Water and Ocean […]
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