The High Cost Of Inaction: New York’s Need For Climate And Energy Reform

Cold winter temperatures and high natural gas prices are generating utility bills that are too hot to handle for New Yorkers. “I looked at my gas bill, and it’s going up — it seems like by the hundreds,” said Cheektowaga resident Ruth…

Governments vet crucial UN climate science report – FRANCE 24 English

Issued on: 13/03/2023 – 11:54 Paris (AFP) – Diplomats from nearly 200 nations and top climate scientists began a week-long huddle in Switzerland on Monday to distil nearly a decade of published science into a 20-odd-page warning about the existential…

Finding life on Mars requires more powerful tools

An international team of scientists says that finding conclusive evidence of life on Mars will require better tools than those on the current rovers.

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Climate change is causing droughts everywhere – Yahoo News

A sunken boat reemerges in September 2022 in Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Nevada, after unprecedented drought. (David McNew/Getty Images) Much of the Northern Hemisphere is struggling with drought or the threat of drought, as Europe experiences an unusually warm,…

Fragile ice sheets could raise sea level by metres, study finds – FRANCE 24 English

Parts of Earth’s ice sheets that could lift global oceans by metres will likely crumble with another half degree Celsius of warming, and are fragile in ways not previously understood, according to new research. Advertising Read more The risk, which…

Leonardo da Vinci studied gravity, too

A new look at the notes of Leonardo da Vinci show that he studied and understood much about gravity centuries ahead of his time.

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A submarine robot gives close up of Doomsday glacier, finds more trouble beneath it

It is one of the glaciers on the continent that exhibits the quickest and most unstable changes

Antarctica Doomsday Glacier: ‘We should all be very concerned’ – Al Jazeera English

Melting of the Florida-sized glacier is of grave concern, with the potential for significant global sea level rise. Scientists studying Antarctica’s vast Thwaites Glacier – nicknamed the “Doomsday Glacier” – say warm water is seeping into its weak spots, threatening…

Warming oceans are carving vast trenches into Thwaites glacier – The Washington Post

Rapidly warming oceans are cutting into the underside of the Earth’s widest glacier, startling new data and images show, leaving the ice more prone to fracturing and ultimately heightening the risk for major sea level rise. Using an underwater robot…

Climate change may explain mysterious collapse of Hittite Empire, study finds – The Times of Israel

PARIS — Three years of extreme drought may have brought about the collapse of the mighty Hittite Empire around 1200 BCE, researchers have said, linking the plight of the fallen civilization to the modern world’s climate crisis. The Hittites dominated…