We spend enormous amounts of energy on fighting off the heat in the summer, or throughout the whole year at lower latitudes—about one-tenth of the total worldwide electricity supply.
Propane — A Solution for More Sustainable Air Conditioning
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Tracking Marine Plastic Drift From Space
Every 60 seconds the equivalent of a lorry-load of plastic enters the global ocean.
Above-Average Hurricane Season Will Offer Little Relief From Brutal Texas Drought, State Climatologist Says
The same La Niña conditions that helped usher in an exceptionally hot and dry summer are also setting the stage for increased hurricane activity — but those storms won’t bring the kind of rain Texans have been hoping for.
NASA Studies Find Previously Unknown Loss of Antarctic Ice
New research on Antarctica, including the first map of iceberg calving, doubles the previous estimates of loss from ice shelves and details how the continent is changing.
Study Achieves Longest Continuous Tracking of Migrating Insects
Insects are the world’s smallest flying migrants, but they can maintain perfectly straight flight paths even in unfavorable wind conditions, according to a new study from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior (MPI-AB) and the University of Konstanz in Germany, and the University of Exeter in the UK.
Earth Had Its 6th-Hottest July and Year to Date on Record
Antarctic saw another month of record-low sea ice coverage
