Robin McKie’s article “Glaciergate was a blunder, but it’s the sceptics who dissemble” (Comment, last week) brings clarity and balance to the debate about climate change science. Yes, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Himalayan glacier projection was wrong, but that doesn’t undermine the rigorous seven-year IPCC process that led to the last assessment report [...]
There’s a mystery in the skies of Earth: Something is producing bright flashes of gamma radiation in the upper atmosphere of our own planet. A new NASA-NSF mission called Firefly is going to investigate.
Living on a planet comes with certain advantages. Gravity, for instance. The only reason hot air rises on Earth is that colder, denser air will always fall to displace it upwards. On the International Space Station everyone has to sleep next to a fa…
Saving the air we breath will be a great accomplishment by using solar fuel, or solar panels. Having a free fuel be be another great thing for the future. We can finally start to clean up our planet.
Climate change experts argue for international geoengineering effortInternationally coordinated research and field-testing on ‘geoengineering’ the planet’s atmosphere to limit risk of climate change should begin soon along with building international g…
For the past 50 years, scientists have scoured the skies for radio signals from beyond our planet, hoping for some sign of extraterrestrial life. But one physicist says there’s no reason alien life couldn’t already be lurking among us — or maybe even in us.
Extraterrestrial life – Earth – Radio – UFO – Royal Society
The Kuiper Belt region is filled with objects believed to be left over from the solar system’s formation. The discovery links solar system formation to planet-forming debris disk around other stars.
Latest figures show the world’s glaciers are continuing to melt so fast that many will disappear by the middle of this centuryGlaciers across the globe are continuing to melt so fast that many will disappear by the middle of this century, the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) said today.The announcement of the latest annual results [...]
The United States is doing little to defend the planet against potentially devastating asteroids and is not doing the basic searches that Congress has ordered, according to a report released Friday.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is doing little to defend the planet against potentially devastating asteroids and is not doing the basic searches that Congress has ordered, according to a report released on Friday.