Read some reports of our changing climate today, and you might be convinced that we’re about to enter a mini Ice Age, with decades of plummeting temperatures ahead. Here’s why that’s a lot of hot air. More »
Jim Hansen has been head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies for 31 years. In this time, he’s been arrested twice. Why? How? More »
Despite being the coldest national capital in the world, Mongolia’s Ulan Bator is about to undertake a unique climatological experiment — employing artificial glaciers to cool and water the city during its warmer months. More »
You’re looking at Pine Island Glacier. It pushes more ice to the sea than any other glacier in the world. And that gigantic 18-mile-long canyon? That’s the birth point of a new gargantuan iceberg, larger than New York City. More »
While most of us get cosier by the minute with the latest iGadgets, perfected work and play stations, and 1500 thread count sheets, nomads of many stripes are out in the world, roaming. More »
Researchers at Cal Berkeley say that we – we being humans – have probably triggered the sixth mass extinction in our planet’s history (the first man-made mass extinction!). Thanks to the last 500 years of over-fishing, overhunting, habitation destruction and fossil-fuel-induced global warming, we could have the blood of over 75 per cent of Earth’s current living species on our hands. More »
