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Carbon removal plans fall billions of tons short of climate goals
2+ hour, 42+ min ago (1089+ words) The single most important thing the world can do about climate change is stop pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as fast as possible." But even in the most optimistic scenarios some emissions " from agriculture, aviation or cement " are going…...
Scientists discover a hidden tipping point in Antarctica's ice
1+ hour, 52+ min ago (841+ words) Climate scientists who project future sea level rise generally assume that ice sheets respond to warming in a gradual and somewhat predictable way. As temperatures increase, the ice retreats at a pace that can be estimated with climate models. However,…...
Hidden ocean warming discovered deep beneath the Atlantic
2+ hour, 25+ min ago (916+ words) Surface temperature readings from the equatorial Atlantic tend to run flat. The record there has been stable enough that researchers had little reason to look deeper for surprises. A sediment core from the seafloor changed that. Chemical signals locked in…...
Scientists found a new way to measure a healthy forest " just listen to it
5+ hour, 52+ min ago (875+ words) Costa Rica's forests are a celebrated conservation comeback. Decades of payments to landowners helped reverse some of the worst deforestation in the Americas, and satellite data confirmed the trees returned. Tree cover tells you the canopy is back. It says…...
Ocean microbes may hold the key to better climate predictions
7+ hour, 13+ min ago (697+ words) It is estimated that there are trillions of microbes constantly active in the depths below the surface of the ocean, and everything they do on a daily basis affects the climate on Earth. These tiny organisms perform two essential functions…...
Extreme weather could knock out wind and solar power for weeks, study warns
5+ hour, 20+ min ago (967+ words) Wind and solar farms keep the lights on as long as the weather cooperates. When calm skies and still air settle in for days, though, the result is a wind and solar shortfall that hits both sources at once. A…...
When frozen ground starts to thaw, carbon takes a new route " a model shows why spring is the danger window
5+ hour, 30+ min ago (892+ words) In the mountains of western China, researchers have spent years measuring carbon draining off frozen hillslopes during times of thaw. The pattern seemed simple enough. Higher flow meant more carbon, lower flow meant less " except in the spring, when the…...
AI search tools may be stripping the internet of its humanity
7+ hour, 38+ min ago (928+ words) There's something that happens when you ask a question on the internet and get a clean, confident answer back in seconds." It feels like progress. You got what you needed without wading through a dozen blog posts, forum threads, and…...
Wildfire killed a million Joshua trees, but something important survived
11+ hour, 31+ min ago (812+ words) When the Dome Fire swept through California's Mojave Desert in 2020, it burned through 43, 000 acres and reduced roughly one million Eastern Joshua trees to blackened skeletons." The visible destruction was total. Scientists heading in to study the aftermath assumed the underground…...
NASA's Moon base starts taking shape with rovers, landers, and drones
8+ hour, 18+ min ago (897+ words) A permanent Moon base has been described in NASA planning documents for years " rover concepts, habitat designs, and power systems mapped out in detail. Turning those documents into contracts is a different matter. NASA signed several of them this week....