Archives 2016
- December 17, 2016
- jcantieri
“If you want to name things that could really bring down civilization, nuclear bombs are one, but I think CO2 has all the seeds of that,”
- December 16, 2016
- jcantieri
Without the little notches, plastic ketchup packets are almost impossible to open no matter how much you pull or tear. Cracks in the world’s ice
- December 14, 2016
- abigailfoerstner
Every autumn climate scientists from diverse disciplines gather at the Comer Climate Conference on a farm in rural Wisconsin. They focus on the latest research
- December 13, 2016
- lchandrasekaran
"Don’t get old if you can help it,” climatologist George Denton joked at the Comer Abrupt Climate Change Conference in Wisconsin this fall. But he
- November 29, 2016
- lchandrasekaran
Glaciers and forests show jagged retreats in Jill Pelto’s paintings while the sky above heats up. Pelto, a graduate student studying climate science at the
- November 29, 2016
- dprieur
It should come as no surprise to Chicagoans that 2015 was the hottest year on record. A snow-free, unseasonably warm holiday season surely gave Chicagoans
- November 29, 2016
- lchandrasekaran
Cosmic rays, hurling across the galaxy near light-speed, generate a time machine on Earth for us to measure the retreat of the glaciers and the
- November 29, 2016
- jcantieri
Physicist and engineer Klaus Lackner makes artificial trees – but not the kind that decorate living rooms and lobbies. His artificial trees can capture carbon
- November 22, 2016
- kcalagna
Sea level rise – a direct impact of a warming climate and melting ice – threatens island nations and coastal communities across the world.
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- November 3, 2016
- lchandrasekaran
"Green city planning to create green roofs, green parks and deployment of green assets in places where we are worried about heat effects is necessary,”
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