NASA Launches Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2
Last week, NASA launched its first dedicated carbon dioxide observing spacecraft. Named The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2), the craft is a direct replacement for the original Orbiting Carbon...
View ArticleAustralia’s drying up because of our greenhouse gas emissions
The southwest of Australia is currently in the midst of a dramatic decline in rainfall. Since 2000, Perth has received less than a quarter of the average water flow into its reservoirs when compared...
View ArticleQuantum Mechanics Goes Down The Rabbit Hole
Quantum mechanics already hosts a number of strange quirks and baffling behaviours, wave-particle duality and Schrödinger cats to name just a couple. But the latest phenomenon to be observed is more...
View ArticleCryoSat Measures Bleak Future For Antarctic Ice
New research undertaken by ESA at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany, has shown the rate at which the ice sheets covering Greenland and Antarctica are melting to be 500 cubic kilometres of ice per...
View ArticleCarbon Weather
An article recently published in New Scientist has highlighted the growing success in linking extreme weather events to the human contribution on climate change. The methods used generally involve...
View ArticleOcean Temperatures Higher Than Expected
Temperature readings from the southern hemisphere suggest that previous measurements dating back to 1970 may have been inaccurate, leading to the full extent of global warming to be underestimated....
View ArticleClimate Change Will Make Lightning Strikes 50% More Frequent
As global warming continues, the frequency of lightning strikes over the United States will increase at a rate of 12±5% per degree Celsius. This is the result of research conducted at the University...
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