Large tropical volcanos have caused some of the world’s most destructive natural disasters in history, with volcanic eruptions spewing out massive quantities of harmful gases and other debris that can wipe out everything in their path. But what about wider impacts on global climate? These large volcanic eruptions are known to temporarily cool the planet ...
Talks of climate change and shifting weather patterns have largely been focused on the negative in recent times, such as the wildfires of the Amazon or Australia, record carbon dioxide emissions, rapid melting of glaciers, and so on. However, not everything is all doom and gloom. There are some positive developments with regard to climate ...
China’s growth will play a crucial role in determining the trajectory of how the world deals with climate change. After all, the country is responsible for about 25 percent of global climate pollution and burns almost half of the world’s coal supply each year. Unfortunately, things might even get worse. “In 15 years, about 250 ...
Fridays for Future, a movement founded by Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg, held a week-long strike between September 20 and 27, 2019. Millions of youth activists participated in strikes that were held at multiple locations across the world. The climate strikes In March this year, large-scale demonstrations against climate change were held with the participation of ...
Airplane contrails, the white streaks one sees in the skies, have often been accused by conspiracy theorists of being a government project to manipulate the weather. Though this has been debunked by scientists, the fact that contrails affect the climate is well-known. Now, a new study warns that the heating effect of the contrails will ...
In recent years, wreckage parts of a 1946 crashed aircraft of the U.S. Air Force were recovered at the Gauli Glacier. Model calculations by ETH Zurich researchers now show that the fuselage of the aircraft will probably only emerge from the ice in 8 to 16 years. In November 1946, a U.S. Air Force aircraft ...
A report published in the International Journal of Climatology predicts Brisbane, Australia, will become a “difficult place to live” in the next three decades due to soaring temperatures. The extreme heat is also expected to lead to more deaths. Hot Brisbane According to the report, the number of hot days and nights will double in ...
An ice sheet in Greenland is the second largest in the world. With an area of 660,000 square miles, the sheet covers about 80 percent of the island and is over 1.2 miles thick. Though we have known for some time that the ice sheet in Greenland has been melting, new research suggests that the ...
About 252 million years ago, a rise in global temperatures resulted in a massive mass extinction in Earth’s history called the Permian mass extinction. Almost 96 percent of marine animals and 70 percent of land animals perished. All this happened in just a few thousand years. Scientists warn that a similar fate might await us ...
The extinction of woolly mammoths has been a hotly debated topic among scientists, with theories of asteroid collisions, diseases, and human hunting coming up as probable causes. A newly discovered crater in Greenland now gives credence to the idea that the mammoth extinction may have been brought about as a result of an asteroid collision. ...
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