Climate scientist James Hansen announced this week that he would be retiring from his role at NASA to focus more on climate activism. His decision couldn’t...
In the book Pale Blue Dot*, Carl Sagan, the astronomer and author, described Earth as “a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam“. Earth is vulnerable...
A team of scientists has revealed that increasing temperatures in the northern hemisphere have led to significant changes in the growth of vegetation in the region....
Arctic sea ice cover shrunk to its lowest ever point in August last year, but a team of researchers have found that the remaining ice also...
A NASA-backed study has said that degradation of area twice the size of California in the Amazon rainforest could be because of climate change. A so-called...
Sea levels have risen by over 11mm since 1992 because of increased ice melt in both Greenland and Antarctica, according to a comprehensive study by a...
The scale of Hurricane Sandy is unprecedented, with much of America’s east coast affected in some capacity. But is its devastation a sign of things to...
In the wake of the environmental audit committee’s Protecting the Arctic report, which called for more safety measures and higher safety standards to prevent oil spills,...
Readers of Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (H2G2 to the aficionados) will know the significance of 42. When the super computer Deep Thought is...
The future of solar energy may lie in alien territory, with developers in the technology turning to space-based regions in search of the ultimate power hub....