World leaders must look for ways to close that gap at the United Nations climate convention in Glasgow, UK, in November, and then implement their commitments. Clearly there is a long and difficult ...

The climate crisis is arguably the biggest challenge humanity has ever faced, and to limit warming to manageable levels, time is our biggest opponent. While the transition from fossil fuels to cleaner ...

二酸化炭素などの温室効果ガスの増加によって20世紀以降、かつてないほど急激に地球の気温が上昇しています。気温上昇に伴って気候が変化して異常気象が起こるなど地球環境の危機とも呼ぶべき地球温暖化に対して、成層圏に気体を散布することで太陽 ...

The eruption of Mt Pinatubo changed everything. As the top of the mountain disintegrated, a dense plume of ash and gas surged 35 kilometres into the air. The resulting cloud of sulphur-dioxide and ...

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and scientists from around the world have said it time and again: CO2 emissions need to be radically reduced in order to stop the world from ...

The American Geophysical Union (AGU), a professional organization for earth and space scientists, has published an ethical framework that it says can “aid new research considerations, funding ...

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For years researchers have been looking for viable solutions to our current climate crisis. As the years go by without any significant progress being made to counteract climate change, some ...

Desperate times call for desperate measures. In recent years and in the face of unprecedented changes in the climate system, some previously unknown and risky solutions have been proposed to put a ...

The Tennessee state House of Representatives passed a bill Monday designed to prevent geoengineering, the practice of intentionally modifying the atmosphere to counteract global warming. The bill, ...