The planet is heating up more quickly than ever before. For decades, greenhouse gas emissions caused by human activity have been building up in the atmosphere and trapping ever-higher levels of heat. The resulting asymmetry between incoming solar energy and energy radiated back out into space — known as “Earth’s ... [continued]
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Four leading climate scientists are warning that geoengineering is a fool's game with potentially catastrophic consequences.
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The Trump administration is dismantling the Ocean Observatories Initiative — a $386 million network of 900 deep-sea sensors built to run for 30 years. Congress is calling it illegal. Scientists are calling it catastrophic. Here’s what OOI actually does, why it matters across fisheries, weather, and climate, and the fastest ways to take action right now.
Update June 18: NSF pauses OOI dismantling after Senate passes bipartisan bill. Here's what happened, what's next, and why the fight isn't over.
The Trump administration is dismantling the Ocean Observatories Initiative — a $386 million network of 900 deep-sea sensors built to run for 30 years. Congress is calling it illegal. Scientists are calling it catastrophic. Here’s what OOI actually does,…
The latest report from the WMO shows how the Earth is overheating and why. CleanTechnica readers already know the answers.
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It’s no secret our planet is heating up. And here’s the evidence: we’ve just experienced the 11 hottest years on record, with 2025 being the second or third warmest in global history. The annual State of the Climate report, published today by the World Meteorological Organization, suggests we’re still too reliant ... [continued]
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A red stain in Antarctica turns out to be a pressure signal, exposing active water movement beneath one of Earth’s coldest glaciers.
Scientists from the Nature Conservancy have published a study in the journal Environmental Research — Health that finds nearly a third of people alive today are unable to work outdoors safely in the higher temperatures prevalent in much of the world. Rising temperatures, driven by the continued burning of fossil ... [continued]
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Sometimes a visually compelling metaphor is all you need to get an otherwise complicated idea across. In the summer of 2001, a Tulane physics professor named John P. Perdew came up with a banger. He wanted to convey the hierarchy of computational complexity inherent in the behavior of electrons in materials. He called it “Jacob’s Ladder.” He was appropriating an idea from the Book of…
For over 75 years, the United States has been a global leader in climate change research. In the 1950s, scientists at the University of California showed that carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere were increasing and established the first long-term CO2 monitoring system, while Norman Phillips at the Institute for Advanced Studies developed the first computer model of the global climate.…
Continuing the theme of complete idiocy and mass human harm, the Donald Trump administration is on the verge of making climate change denialism US national policy. Why? Because we are apparently a petrolstate being run by a mixture of Homer Simpson and Mr. Burns. Steve Hanley will write a much ... [continued]
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