Archives 2020
- January 23, 2021
- Shivani Majmudar
President Joe Biden's White House science team faces cascading crises as it takes command amid COVID-19, escalating climate change and crippling public doubts about science.
- December 20, 2020
- Caroline Elizabeth Catherman
New research has found a big flaw in one of the most widely accepted theories about earth’s climate, Milutin Milankovitch’s century-old theory of ice ages.
- December 18, 2020
- Shivani Majmudar
COVID-19 swept the world, with little regard for anyone who stood in its path. Within weeks, the virus killed thousands, isolated people in their homes
- December 18, 2020
- Shivani Majmudar
Amid this year’s global pandemic, the world is also fighting more frequent and severe hurricanes, larger wildfires and prolonged heat waves—indicative that climate change is
- December 18, 2020
- Grace Elizabeth Rodgers
In a race against climate change, Yuxin Zhou, 26, is among the next generation of climate scientists studying the Earth’s responses to rapidly rising temperatures,
- December 18, 2020
- Marisa Sloan
Despite the sci-fi name of this rare-earth element, neodymium is actually pretty common. The silvery metal is used in everything from cell phones and wind
- December 18, 2020
- Grace Elizabeth Rodgers
Melting freshwater icebergs raise critical questions about ocean circulation. However, to find answers to what’s happening on ocean surfaces, some scientists are searching ocean floors
- December 18, 2020
- Grace Elizabeth Rodgers
Researchers have long tracked the timing and retreat patterns of the North American Laurentide ice sheet, the greatest ice sheet to exist in the Ice
- December 17, 2020
- Marisa Sloan
Faced with a challenge as mammoth as climate change, scientists are turning to some very tiny organisms for insight — coccolithophores, the single-celled algae that
- November 19, 2020
- Grace Elizabeth Rodgers
At the first 2020 Presidential debate, President Donald Trump said that Green New Deal supporters “want to take out the cows” to reduce greenhouse gas
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