Substituting chicken for beef could reduce greenhouse gas emissions from people’s diets by up to 48% and improve their health at the same time, according to a new study of the eating habits of Americans. Photo courtesy Tulane University PR Oct. 26 (UPI) — Substituting chicken for beef or […] Click here to view original […]

The Blue Marble photo, captured by the crew of Apollo 17 on Dec. 7, 1972. Humans are not doing enough to tackle the climate crisis, leading the world into a dangerously risky and unfamiliar territory, scientists warn in a new study. Of the 35 signs useful to track changes […] Click here to view original

Chloe Dean, a grad student in the MIT–Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution joint program, is working to help harness the power of the ocean to safely sequester carbon. October 24, 2023 At WHOI’s Environmental Systems Lab, Chloe Dean can access seawater and use large flow-through tanks for experiments that need […] Click here to view original

Climate change-driven disasters have caused damages equivalent to $391 million a day for 20 years, according to projections published in the journal Nature Communications. Researchers determined that between 2000 and 2019, climate disasters such as droughts and heatwaves did about $143 billion of damage annually. They attributed 63 percent […] Click here to view original

Smoke rolls out of the University of Iowa Power Plant on Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022. The expected high was 7 degrees and the expected low was negative 12 degrees. Following the release of the 2023 Iowa Climate Statement and record-breaking temperatures that largely impacted Iowa’s air quality, climate experts […] Click here to view original

In this photo taken on Oct. 10, 2023, a man looks at a forest fire as it approaches houses in Ogan Ilir, South Sumatra in Indonesia. Damages from the global climate crisis have racked up costs amounting to $391 million per day over the past two decades, a report […] Click here to view original