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How to Become a Backyard Meteorologist With a Few Simple Tools
[ad_1] Modern-day meteorologists rely on a vast network of advanced technologies to predict the weather, but that wasn’t always the case. Before satellites, computer…
Tag: Atmospheric science
Breaking News
UN climate boss settles for no cuts on emissions
[ad_1] SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt — Given an energy crisis in Europe and progress made in helping climate victims, the new climate chief for the…
Technology
UN climate boss settles for no cuts on emissions
[ad_1] SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt — Given an energy crisis in Europe and progress made in helping climate victims, the new climate chief for the…
Breaking News
Report: 90% of US counties hit with disaster in last decade
[ad_1] Ninety percent of the counties in the United States suffered a weather disaster between 2011 and 2021, according to a report published Wednesday.…
Finance
Climate activist blasts leaders holding onto fossil projects
[ad_1] SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt — Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate slammed world leaders Tuesday who persist in backing new fossil fuel projects despite science…
Finance
Saudi Arabia has ‘green vision’ at COP27, critics unmoved
[ad_1] SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt — Hydrogen cars and vehicles that capture their tailpipe pollutants. Computer mice made from recycled ocean waste plastic. Hundreds of…
Breaking News
UN climate talks near halftime with key issues unresolved
[ad_1] SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt — As the U.N. climate talks in Egypt near the half-way point, negotiators are working hard to draft deals on…
Breaking News
US to climate summit: American big steps won’t be repealed
[ad_1] SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt — U.S. President Joe Biden is coming to international climate talks in Egypt this week with a message that historic…
Finance
Equipment that’s designed to cut methane emission is failing
[ad_1] As Sharon Wilson pulled up to the BP site in Texas last June, production tanks towered above the windblown grass roughly 60 miles…
Breaking News
Climate Questions: Who is most vulnerable to climate change?
[ad_1] Most of the world’s population has been affected in some way by climate change — 85% of the world, in fact. But the…
US News
Climate Questions: Does what I do matter?
[ad_1] Can people’s individual actions make a difference in how much carbon dioxide is emitted on an international scale? International organizations like the United…
US News
Drought snarls Mississippi River transit in blow to farmers
[ad_1] ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER — Adam Thomas starts harvesting soybeans on his Illinois farm when the dew burns off in the morning. This…
Technology
International climate change bodies win humanity award
[ad_1] LISBON, Portugal — A prize worth 1 million euros ($970,000) is being awarded to two intergovernmental bodies for their work on climate change.…
Technology
Underground microbes may have swarmed ancient Mars
[ad_1] CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Ancient Mars may have had an environment capable of harboring an underground world teeming with microscopic organisms, French scientists…
Technology
Underground microbes may have swarmed ancient Mars
[ad_1] CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Ancient Mars may have had an environment capable of harboring an underground world teeming with microscopic organisms, French scientists…
US News
Ex-grad student held in Arizona professor’s fatal shooting
[ad_1] TUCSON, Ariz. — A former University of Arizona graduate student arrested in the fatal shooting of a hydrology professor was being held without…
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Police: Ex-grad student kills Arizona professor on campus
[ad_1] TUCSON, Ariz. — The University of Arizona has released the name of a professor who authorities said was fatally shot on campus by…
Breaking News
Climate change made summer drought 20 times more likely
[ad_1] Drought that stretched across three continents this summer — drying out large parts of Europe, the United States and China — was made…
World News
Baltic Sea pipeline leak damages marine life and climate
[ad_1] WASHINGTON — Methane escaping from the damaged Nord Stream pipelines that run between Russia and Europe is likely to result in the biggest…