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What a Difference 200,000 Years Makes
Homo Erectus WikipediaPeking Man, a group of Homo erectus discovered in the 1920's near Beijing (then Peking), China, has been back in the spotlight over the last few days. A new estimate from...
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Lasers Could Create Clouds, and Perhaps Rain, on Demand
Laser Cloud Seeding Let's fire up the Pink Floyd album Jean-Pierre Wolf/University of Geneva Weather control freaks may get their next rainmaking tool in the form of an infrared laser. Scientists have...
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Attention, Supervillains and Climate Engineers: The U.N. May Soon Forbid You...
Blocking Out the Sun Wikimedia CommonsOf all of C. Montgomery Burns's nefarious dealings on The Simpsons, perhaps none sticks in the public consciousness like the time he attempted to use a massive...
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11 Ways Science and Technology Are Waging War on Winter
Yuki-taro Snowbot Yuki-taro View Photo GalleryHere in New York City, we've just been hit with yet another round of snow, and it got us thinking: There must be somebody working on a way to get rid of...
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Who Killed The Deep Space Climate Observatory?
The Lost Satellite Why didn't the Deep Space Climate Observatory fly? And will a renewed government interest in climate science finally pull the satellite out of storage? Mat Dartford It all began so...
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Mongolia Will Build Enormous Block of Ice to Beat Summer Heat
Naled A sheet of naled ice in Mongolia. That black dot is a person. NswansonThis month, Mongolia will launch a project creating a huge manmade ice block to combat the sweltering summer in the capital...
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Predictions for 2012: Congress Keeps Fiddling While the Environment Declines
Congress In Session Whitehouse.gov When it comes to the physics of climate change, no one year is more important than any other. But for the politics of climate, 2012 will be a big one, less about...
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Climate Experts Weigh In on Our Record Heat Wave
2012 Heat Wave NASA In honor of World Meteorological Day, it makes sense to take a closer look at the highly unusual winter and spring we've had so far. Mother Jones has a roundup of these...
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The 2012 Heat Wave: "Almost Like Science Fiction"
2012 Heat Wave NASA Today is World Meteorological Day, and there's no better time to take a serious look at our meteorological surroundings than right now, here in North America. All across the...
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2013 Prediction: Climate Scientists Say It Again
Climate Scientists Say It Again Jesse Lenz Science and technology have utterly transformed human life in the past few generations, and forecasts of the future used to be measured in decades. But big...
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High School Students Devise More Accurate Climate Modeling Method
Fossilized leaves can tell us a lot about out climate history Frank Kovalchek via WikimediaA team of high school students have co-authored a scientific journal paper with their University of Arizona...
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How To Make Bricks Out Of Dirt
Climate Control Because compressed-earth blocks absorb and release heat more slowly than fired bricks, they can keep interiors cooler during the day and warmer at night. Kevin Hand Bricks are fairly...
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In Ancient Ice, Clues That Scientists Are Underestimating Future Sea Levels
Frozen in Time A cylinder of 130,000-year-old ice drilled from the Greenland ice sheet tells the story of an ancient warming period. Courtesy Neem Ice Core Drilling Project The skies do strange things...
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Why Did Global Warming Slow Down in the Nineties?
A global ban on ozone-destroying substances has kept the globe a little cooler. quattrostagioni/flickrGood news on the climate front, sort of: When we cut emissions of heat-trapping gases worldwide,...
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A Map Of Winds All Over The World
Global Winds, Imaged in the GEOS-5 Nature Run William Putman/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Aeolus, is that you? This is a map of winds on Earth, created from a mathematical model made by NASA....
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Climatologist: Nuclear Power Only Way To Curb Climate Disruption
Fossil fuel emissions bar chart We've added about 370 gigatons of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels to the atmosphere since the start of the industrial age. Keeping the total to 500 gigatons or...
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2013 Was Another Year Of Extreme Weather Across the U.S.
Heavy Weather: Many states and localities experienced extreme weather and climate conditions in 2013. NOAA's National Climatic Data Center Averaged nationally, 2013 was a comparatively calm weather...
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Good News: Life On Earth Will Not Boil Away As Soon As Previously Thought
Coronal Mass Ejection NASA Look around you. See the plants, the animals; most importantly, feel the earth beneath your toes. One day, the sun will brighten, and everything on the planet will burn. The...
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Salt Prices Skyrocket As Temperatures Plummet
Salt TruckKate Ter Haar/Flickr, CC BY 2.0Talk about a polar plunge. This week all 50 states experienced freezing temperatures on the same day. Preparations for the (possible) deep freeze of this winter...
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Data From Satellites Confirm: Glaciers Are Retreating
Unnamed Glacier 2004Karpilo, Ron. 2004 Unnamed Glacier: From the Glacier Photograph Collection. Boulder, Colorado USA: National Snow and Ice Data Center/World Data Center for GlaciologyGlaciers are...
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