With the rapid intensification of natural disasters in recent years brought by the worsening climate change, scientists and experts are cramming to create technologies that could predict the onslaught of natural calamities to help people better prepare and limit the destruction they bring. There are now expectations that artificial intelligence (AI) will one day be ...
In 2020, Oxford-based philosopher Toby Ord published a book called The Precipice about the risk of human extinction. He put the chances of “existential catastrophe” for our species during the next century at one in six. It’s quite a specific number and an alarming one. The claim drew headlines at the time and has been ...
In recent years, the impact of human activities on the environment has become a growing concern. Many surfers, for instance, have witnessed the decline of native forests and their associated ecosystems. This firsthand observation has created a deep resonance within the surfing community. In response, a grassroots movement has occurred, where surfers are teaming up ...
Think about oil and gas companies and climate change and chances are you’ll think dark thoughts. It’s true that Exxon Mobil had remarkably detailed knowledge of global warming in the 1970s. Some seeded doubt by funding climate-denier organizations and scientists and invented greenwashing. The current energy crisis has handed them windfall profits. In fact, BP ...
The ‘hockey stick’ climate change graph has been controversial for a long time. There have been attempts to validate it, but several detractors are trying to prove its irrelevance. The climate “hockey stick” refers to a reconstruction of temperatures over the past 1,000 years. The data shows flattish temperatures over the last millennium, like the handle ...
Storm tracks — regions where storms travel from west to east across oceans and continents driven by the prevailing jet stream — determine weather and climate in middle-latitude places like Chicago and New York. This is directly impacted by climate change. “Changes in the position of storm tracks in response to anthropogenic climate change depend on how ...
With time, more and more nations are turning toward using green energy. This is not only limited to the U.S. and a few European nations alone. Even the so-called third-world countries are deploying measures to reduce and gradually phase out fossil fuels. Australia is also gearing up to eradicate polluting fossil fuel usage by 2050. ...
Many companies promote clean products that include upcycling and the zero waste motto but when a company has double standards that hint at a political liaison, the company is sure to draw scorn. A case in point is the BlackRock China tie-up as the American global investment company invests in retail industries in China that ...
Atmospheric aerosols scatter and absorb solar light, and influence the formation of clouds. However, these processes are not yet completely understood, which leads to significant uncertainties when estimating their role in climate change. In order to reliably estimate the effect of humans on climate change, we need to be able to separate the effects of ...
An analysis of sediment cores from the Bering Sea has revealed a recurring relationship between warmer climates and abrupt episodes of low-oxygen “dead zones” in the subarctic North Pacific Ocean over the past 1.2 million years. The new study, led by researchers at UC Santa Cruz, was published in Science Advances. The findings provide crucial information for ...
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