Lomborg: Energy Price Spikes Are Causing Pain But Little Climate Gain

For three decades, climate campaigners have fought to make fossil fuels so expensive that people would be forced to abandon them. Their dream is becoming reality: Energy prices are spiraling out of control and will soon get even worse. Yet…

Greenland Ice Cores Show Temps Were Much Warmer 4,000 Years Ago

Jørgen Peder Steffensen is an ice core research professor at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen. His team has reconstructed the last 10,000 years of Greenland’s climate history using ice core data. It bears the fingerprints of…

Shedding the Pounds Boosts a Man’s Fertility as Sperm Also Becomes Fitter, Says Study

Shedding the pounds boosts a man’s fertility as sperm also become fitter and are more likely to reach the egg, according to new research. Losing weight increases both he number and quality of sperm, researchers reveal. In the U.K, around one in ten men are infertile—defined as unsuccessfully attempting pregnancy for a year or longer. […]

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Can binary-star planets support life?

A new study examines whether binary-star planets – planets orbiting 2 sun – can harbor life.

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Trump Policies Sent U.S. Tumbling in a Climate Ranking – The New York Times

For four years under President Donald J. Trump, the United States all but stopped trying to combat climate change at the federal level. Mr. Trump is no longer in office, but his presidency left the country far behind in a…

Warmer Nights Caused by Climate Change Take a Toll on Sleep – InsideClimate News

Trouble sleeping? Climate change may be to blame and, according to researchers, it’s only going to get worse. A study released last week by a team of climatologists found that by the end of this century, sleeplessness related to global…

Global Warming has Devastating Effects on Sleep, Study Finds – Sleepopolis

Side view o man sleeping on floor near open fridge at night Trying to sleep during a heatwave or just in a hot room, can be uncomfortable and insomnia-inducing. But a new study reveals that people around the world are…

One Overlooked Consequence of Global Warming: Insomnia – Mother Jones – Mother Jones

Getty Images This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Rising temperatures driven by the climate crisis are cutting the sleep of people across the world, the largest study to date has found. Good…

Global Warming Could Mean Less Sleep for Billions – WebMD

By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, May 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Anyone who’s tried to sleep on a hot summer night knows how hard it is to nod off when the mercury is rising. So it’s no surprise that…

Morel Mushrooms Have Finally Been Reliably Cultivated Indoors For the First Time

Spring is fully waking up the woodlands of the Northern Hemisphere, which means under apple, elm, and sycamore trees—one might find themselves a tasty treat. Black morel mushrooms, in the world of edible fungus, are highly prized and are for North Americans what the boletus is for the Europeans. However, before long one might be […]

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