Posts
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Almost Home, with Another 7 Million Years of Climate History
Science at sea isn’t easy, but the benefits are huge, writes Sidney Hemming in her final post from a two-month expedition that collected millions of years of climate history in the deep-sea sediment from off southern Africa.
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Create a Climate Game—and You Could Win $10,000
Through the Games for Change Climate Challenge, you can be a climate game-changer.
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‘Popping Rocks’ and Robots
It turns out that studying lava flows at the bottom of the ocean uses many of the same methods as studying lava flows on other planets, writes Lamont’s Elise Rumpf.
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Filling a Climate Gap and Helping Rwandan Farmers
Agriculture makes up a major portion of Rwanda’s economy, and employs eight in 10 Rwandans. Of course, farmers are hugely dependent on the climate, and a new project hopes to ensure they get timely information so they can plan for both good times and bad.
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The Damaging Effects of Black Carbon
Air pollution, both outdoors and indoors, causes millions of premature deaths each year. The deaths are mainly caused by the inhalation of particulate matter, especially black carbon. But black carbon not only has impacts on human health, it also affects visibility, harms ecosystems, reduces agricultural productivity and exacerbates global warming.
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The Presidency and Sustainability
The president’s accomplishments are particularly noteworthy given the toxic political environment he must operate within. Flint, Michigan’s water crisis provides an example of how partisan politics is dominating federal environmental policy.
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Scientists Say Many Plants Don’t Respond to Warming as Thought
From Tundra to New York Exurbs and Tropics, New Data Lowers Estimates of Carbon Release
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Global Warming Pushes Wines Into Uncharted Terroir
Heat Has Decoupled French Grapes from Old Weather Patterns
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Finding Microfossils off Southern Africa
Expedition 361’s newest sediment cores brought up spectacular foraminifera—translucent, glassy and “very pretty” throughout the ocean sediment.
