One massive flood hits one small town… and the computer industry quakes.
NPR explains why the aftermath of Hurricane Helene in Western North Carolina is ringing alarm bells across the global tech industry. Because nearly every semiconductor […]
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Climate change affects the Earth’s rotation more than the Moon does.
PhysOrg shares research from ETH Zurich that demonstrates something that should be obvious to anyone who’s played pool. But as the warming Earth makes the […]
Science Art: The Furnaces of the World…., 1912
This is a Popular Mechanics illustration from 102 years ago that sounds like it could have been written today. Warnings about industrial pollution increasing air […]
Algae bloom data, set to music.
NPR has a piece on a USF anthro prof’s idea to make her sort of depressing research more palatable in a way of which this […]
Dry canal costs billions.
Forbes covers a climate-change story about global trade and supply chains (something the pandemic taught the world about), focused on that thin isthmus between the […]
A lot fewer emperor penguins next year. “Catastrophic breeding failure.”
The British Antarctic Survey reports on one consequence of thinning sea ice after one of the warmest winters on record. Out of five known breeding […]
Texas expects record-setting power usage this week.
Reuters reports on a hot, hot summer that is pulling more electricity from the Texas state grid than ever before: AccuWeather forecast high temperatures in […]
SONG: In the Years Before A/C
SONG: “In the Years Before A/C”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: National Park Service, 1 May 2023, “National Park archeologists find remains of an underwater hospital and […]
Volcanic bacteria can eat CO2. Lots of it, and fast.
The Guardian introduces us to a new group of cyanobacteria that live in volcanic hot springs in Italy and America’s Rocky Mountains and that feast […]
Baseball hitters are getting more home runs, thanks to climate change.
Science reports on some unexpected consequences of a slightly warmer planet. In the statistics-heavy game of baseball, hitters have been averaging more home runs than […]
Despite their public stance, Exxon’s internal science team had a clear view on climate change.
Ars Technica looks at the way Exxon executives decided to bury their own company’s very accurate findings on petroleum and climate: Exxon’s scientific climate work […]
Greenland is melting faster than we thought, and the sea is rising in response.
Science News reveals the discovery of ice flows off Greenland’s melting that had been hidden until now. Researchers say the amount of sea-level rise due […]
Mammal ancestors survived a mass extinction – but got killed off by drought.
Live Science considers the fate of the shovel lizard Lystrosaurus, a plant-eating creature from 251 million years ago who survived the Permian-Triassic mass extinction, but […]
Gas flares don’t burn off as much methane as they should – to the tune of 3 million cars’ worth of pollution.
Science News looks gas flares, the open flames used to burn off leaking natural gas and to convert methane to CO2 directly at oil fields. […]
SONG: False Social Reality
SONG: “False Social Reality”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Nature Communications 23 Aug 2022, “Americans experience a false social reality by underestimating popular climate policy support by […]