Harvard awards $1.3M to fund climate change solutions – Harvard Gazette

Harvard faculty and students are advancing solutions to climate change and its wide-ranging impacts through new scientific, technological, legal, behavioral, public health, policy, and artistic innovations. Ten research teams will share $1.3 million in the eighth round of the Climate…

How fast can we stop Earth from warming? – Daily Montanan – Daily Montanan

Global warming doesn’t stop on a dime. If people everywhere stopped burning fossil fuels tomorrow, stored heat would still continue to warm the atmosphere. Picture how a radiator heats a home. Water is heated by a boiler, and the hot…

Why are east and west on the sun reversed?

East and west on the sun are opposite from what you might expect. On the sun, east is to the left and west is to the right. Learn why here.

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8 Great Climate Change Books for Kids – EARTH.ORG

Climate change is the biggest existential threat we face today and a burden that future generations will have to carry. As younger generations are already experiencing increasingly worsening effects of global warming, with some reports projecting that children will experience…

Young adult Catholics discuss need to promote climate change efforts – Crux Now

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Catholic leadership should not neglect climate change in favor of social issues including abortion, a Georgetown University panel concluded April 27 in an online discussion about how to apply Pope Francis’s 2015 encyclical “Laudato Si’, on Care…

Opinion | Climate change is affecting Harrisonburg | Opinion | breezejmu.org – The Breeze

It’s difficult to deny that the climate is changing around the world — and causing significant damage. Despite worldwide efforts to combat it, wildfires still rage through forests and towns, glaciers continue to melt and sea levels continue to rise. With…

Photos of April’s deep sky: Galaxies, supernovas and more

Get to know April’s deep sky with these amazing photos taken by members of the EarthSky community. Did you take a great photo? Share it with us!

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Ask the Expert: Earth Day and the impact of climate change – MSUToday

“Ask the Expert” articles provide information and insights from MSU scientists, researchers and scholars about national and global issues, complex research and general-interest subjects based on their areas of academic expertise and study. They may feature historical information, background, research…

This Eminent Scientist Says Climate Activists Need to Get Real – The New York Times

The “really” in the title of Vaclav Smil’s newest book, “How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We’re Going,” is doing some heavy lifting. Implicit in the renowned energy scientist’s usage is the…

Sun activity: Giant X-flare, then quiet

Sun activity for the week of April 18 to 24, 2022. We had a record-breaking X-flare this week. Then things got quiet.

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