global warming
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Climate Explained: What Was The Medieval Warm Period?
CC BY-ND Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it to climate.change@stuff.co.nz What was the Medieval warm period? What caused it, and did carbon dioxide…
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Geoengineering Might Not Save Us From a Cloud Apocalypse
There’s a whole slew of reasons to not rely on blocking the sun to cool the planet. But a new paper puts up perhaps the best one yet: It might not work if we continue to let carbon emissions skyrocket.
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How Global Heating is Simplifying the World’s Ecosystems
Global warming is one of the biggest threats to biodiversity worldwide. As temperatures increase, many species are forced to move to new habitats, like fish fleeing warming waters. While the fish have to adapt to new conditions elsewhere, it’s the effect that their departure has on other species that unpicks the delicate relationships that comprise…
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This App Reveals How Much Your Mobile Usage Adds To Your Carbon Thumbprint
The Carbon Thumbprint app converts the time you spend using your mobile data network into grams of carbon dioxide, using AR to illustrate how many kilograms you’re putting out into the atmosphere.