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2024, Hottest Year Ever, Sees World Breach 1.5C Global Warming Target
Scientists sounded the alarm long before last year ended that 2024 would become the hottest year on record and almost certainly the first to surpass the 1.5C limit.
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AI Weather Models Show Promise in Hurricane Prediction
Early returns suggest AI is capable of eerily accurate forecast tracks even as models still need to improve their skill with other metrics.
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Making Sense Of Weird Weather Everywhere
Wildfires in Canada that burned continuously for over a year. Floods that brought Dubai to a standstill. Deadly heat blanketing the streets of New Delhi.
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Humans Have Crossed 7 Of 8 "Planetary Boundaries". What It Means
A team of scientists first introduced the concept "planetary boundaries" almost 15 years ago to identify major Earth systems that were at risk of instability because of human activity.
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What Happens After Warming Hits 1.5C? A Guide to Climate Overshoot
The diplomats and world leaders now gathered in Egypt for the annual United Nations climate summit are tasked, in some sense, with holding the global average temperature below 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming.
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Planet's Breakneck Warming Likely to Pass 1.5 Degrees, UN Scientists Warn
The international goal to limit global heating to 1.5 Degrees Celsius (2.7 Degrees Fahrenheit) is officially on life support.
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How Fast Will The Earth Heat? Results Are Startling
An initiative called Probable Futures hopes its interactive maps showing how fast the Earth could heat will lead citizens and countries to ask questions about how climate change is transforming their world.
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How Burying CO2 Under The Sea Can Help The Climate Change Fight
A Cold War-era joke has an American economist asking a Soviet peer how the communist economy is progressing. "In a word: good," the Russian responds. "In two words: not good."
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This Is the Future of Business-Class Seats
While the vast majority of fliers are feeling the squeeze with tighter and tighter economy seats and downright frightening customer-service disasters, we might well be witnessing the dawn of a new golden age of travel in the business-class section.
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America Is Not The Greatest Country On Earth. It's No. 28
Every study ranking nations by health or living standards invariably offers Scandinavian social democracies a chance to show their quiet dominance. A new analysis published this week-perhaps the most comprehensive ever-is no different.
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A Tiny Power Plant You Could Swallow to Fight Cancer
So a group of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are at work on a tiny battery made of our own chemicals they could put in a pill you'd swallow - a micro power plant that could deliver controlled-release therapies to fight disease with previously impossible precision and safety.
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Forget Tornadoes - Rain Bombs Are Coming For Your Town
Evidence shows that the sky is coming down on our heads-the watery part of it, anyway, in larger and larger cascades. In part, it's our own fault.
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2024, Hottest Year Ever, Sees World Breach 1.5C Global Warming Target
Scientists sounded the alarm long before last year ended that 2024 would become the hottest year on record and almost certainly the first to surpass the 1.5C limit.
-
AI Weather Models Show Promise in Hurricane Prediction
Early returns suggest AI is capable of eerily accurate forecast tracks even as models still need to improve their skill with other metrics.
-
Making Sense Of Weird Weather Everywhere
Wildfires in Canada that burned continuously for over a year. Floods that brought Dubai to a standstill. Deadly heat blanketing the streets of New Delhi.
-
Humans Have Crossed 7 Of 8 "Planetary Boundaries". What It Means
A team of scientists first introduced the concept "planetary boundaries" almost 15 years ago to identify major Earth systems that were at risk of instability because of human activity.
-
What Happens After Warming Hits 1.5C? A Guide to Climate Overshoot
The diplomats and world leaders now gathered in Egypt for the annual United Nations climate summit are tasked, in some sense, with holding the global average temperature below 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming.
-
Planet's Breakneck Warming Likely to Pass 1.5 Degrees, UN Scientists Warn
The international goal to limit global heating to 1.5 Degrees Celsius (2.7 Degrees Fahrenheit) is officially on life support.
-
How Fast Will The Earth Heat? Results Are Startling
An initiative called Probable Futures hopes its interactive maps showing how fast the Earth could heat will lead citizens and countries to ask questions about how climate change is transforming their world.
-
How Burying CO2 Under The Sea Can Help The Climate Change Fight
A Cold War-era joke has an American economist asking a Soviet peer how the communist economy is progressing. "In a word: good," the Russian responds. "In two words: not good."
-
This Is the Future of Business-Class Seats
While the vast majority of fliers are feeling the squeeze with tighter and tighter economy seats and downright frightening customer-service disasters, we might well be witnessing the dawn of a new golden age of travel in the business-class section.
-
America Is Not The Greatest Country On Earth. It's No. 28
Every study ranking nations by health or living standards invariably offers Scandinavian social democracies a chance to show their quiet dominance. A new analysis published this week-perhaps the most comprehensive ever-is no different.
-
A Tiny Power Plant You Could Swallow to Fight Cancer
So a group of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are at work on a tiny battery made of our own chemicals they could put in a pill you'd swallow - a micro power plant that could deliver controlled-release therapies to fight disease with previously impossible precision and safety.
-
Forget Tornadoes - Rain Bombs Are Coming For Your Town
Evidence shows that the sky is coming down on our heads-the watery part of it, anyway, in larger and larger cascades. In part, it's our own fault.
