Melting permafrost is doubling greenhouse warming from the tundra.
Nature reports on a vicious cycle that’s making things uncomfortable in the Arctic – a release of gases from melting permafrost that’s literally collapsing, freeing […]
Month: May 2019
Science Art: Rufus Porter’s “Travelling Balloon,” later renamed the “aeroport,” from Mechanics magazine, Nov. 8, 1834
This airship is a kind of ancestor of the blimp or dirigible, designed by 19th-century American artist and inventor Rufus Porter, who’s perhaps best remembered […]
There are a lot of viruses in the Arctic ice – and they can show us where carbon is sinking.
Science News has a novel way to map out potential climate change – by tracking where new viruses are showing up in the ocean: Water […]