The Hidden Cost of Plant-Based Meat
Although plant-based “beef” may reduce carbon dioxide emissions, it also threatens 1.5 million agricultural jobs. The use of plant-based beef substitutes has the potential to…
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The Amazon Rainforest Is in Bigger Danger Than We Thought
A new network analysis simulates the cascading impacts of rising droughts on South American ecosystems. In the Amazon rainforest, for every three trees that die…
Ancient Mars May Have Been Teeming With Life, Until It Drove Climate Change That Caused Its Demise
Early in its history, the red planet would have likely been habitable to methanogens – microbes that make a living in extreme habitats on Earth…
“Jaw-Dropping” New Clues to Future Ice Sheet Change From Ancient Ice Age Valleys
Deep valleys buried under the seafloor of the North Sea record how the ancient ice sheets that used to cover the UK and Europe expelled…
MIT Chemical Engineers Are Cracking the Carbon Removal Challenge
Verdox, founded by MIT chemical engineers and winner of an XPRIZE Carbon Removal milestone award, is working to move the needle on climate change. By…
New Method Converts Greenhouse Gas Into Fuel
The new method converts methane gas into liquid methanol. A team of researchers has successfully converted methane into methanol using light and scattered transition metals…
The Impact of Aerosols – New Study Corrects Previous Research
Cloud study clarifies the effects of aerosols. According to a recent study, aerosol particles in the atmosphere have a greater influence on cloud cover than…
Majority of Reindeer Grazing Land Is Threatened by Expansion of Human Activities
Reindeer herding has a long history in northern Norway, Sweden, and Finland. It has shaped the Fennoscandian mountain landscape and is also seen as means…
Bitcoin Is As Costly to Environment As Beef Production
Taken as a share of the market price, the environmental costs of mining the digital cryptocurrency Bitcoin are more comparable to the climate damages of…
Mediterranean Sea Blasted by Intense Marine Heatwave
Many parts of Europe saw record-breaking temperatures over the summer. However, it wasn’t just the continental mainland that was affected, because the Mediterranean Sea also…
Potentially Disastrous: 12 Key Ocean Species Are in Danger
Climate-induced changes threaten the future of coastal ecosystems. It may come as no surprise to those who grew up watching Finding Nemo that the North…
Endemic Area of Deadly Lassa Virus May Expand Dramatically in Coming Decades
A new analysis finds that deadly Lassa fever could soon become a much bigger public health problem in Africa due to climate change and other…
2022 Arctic Summer Sea Ice Minimum Extent Tied for 10th-Lowest on Record
Arctic sea ice reached its annual minimum extent on September 18, 2022, according to satellite observations. This year, the ice cover shrank to an area…
Not Just Desert Dust: Anthropogenic Air Pollution Impacts Health and Climate in the Middle East
Desert dust was assumed to be the primary contributor to elevated air pollution across the Middle East. Now, an international team of scientists including researchers…
Scientists Say Refreezing Earth’s Poles Is Feasible and Remarkably Cheap
Earth’s poles are warming several times faster than the global average. In fact, record-smashing heatwaves were reported earlier this year in both the Arctic and…
Feeling the Heat in the Extremes: Where To Expect Heat Waves in the United States in the Future
New climate research shows where to expect hot and humid heat waves in the United States in the coming decades. In the summer of 2022,…
Stanford Scientists Discover Crucial Missing Component of Sea-Level Rise
Scientists seeking to understand how melting ice in Antarctica will impact the planet’s oceans often use computational modeling. Their recent efforts have focused on ice-sheet…
Evolution and Diversity of Reptiles Driven by 60 Million Years of Climate Change
Reptiles had one heck of a coming-out party just over 250 million years ago during the end of the Permian period and the start of…
