The US Can Halve Its Emissions by 2030—if It Wants To
The economics are clear: Renewables are cheap enough for the country to rapidly decarbonize. Less evident is the political will to pull it off.
The economics are clear: Renewables are cheap enough for the country to rapidly decarbonize. Less evident is the political will to pull it off.
Photons wander through snow like ants through a nest. That inspired a clever new NASA technique for measuring the fluffy stuff from orbit.
Scientists have discovered “proto-peat” forming in the Arctic as the Earth naturally sequesters carbon, but it could take centuries to mature.
NASA’s EMIT mission will better analyze the grime from dust-spewing regions, a critically understudied factor in climate change.
The technique uses plants as fuel and sequesters the emitted CO2, removing it from the atmosphere. But scaling up would use gobs of water and land.
The “urban heat island effect” creates extra-hot temperatures that kill. But cities can prescribe powerful treatments, like green spaces and reflective roofs.
Humans are polluting the seas with sound, while warming waters change how noise propagates. What does that mean for whales and other animals?
Researchers can detect volcanic activity by watching how light moves through the same kinds of fibers that bring you internet.
A microsporidian pathogen is annihilating tawny crazy ants, an invasive menace of the highest order.