Compost programs turn garbage into ‘black gold’
City compost programs turn garbage into 'black gold' that boosts food security and social justice
Kristen DeAngelis, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Gwynne Mhuireach, University of...
Climate change brings multiple threats to crops
Crops could face double trouble from insects and a warming climate
Gregg Howe, Michigan State University and Nathan Havko, Michigan State University
For millennia, insects and...
Offshore drilling is still unsafe
A decade after the Deepwater Horizon explosion, offshore drilling is still unsafe
Donald Boesch, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
Ten years ago, on April...
Gold rush, mercury legacy
Small-scale mining for gold has produced long-lasting toxic pollution, from 1860s California to modern Peru
Jacqueline Gerson, Duke University; Austin Wadle, Duke University, and Jasmine...
Fish livers found to contain oil from Deepwater Horizon blowout
Scientists have found oil from the Deepwater Horizon blowout in fishes' livers and on the deep ocean floor
Over the decade since the Deepwater Horizon...
Plankton capture twice as much carbon as scientists thought
Tiny plankton drive processes in the ocean that capture twice as much carbon as scientists thought
Ken Buesseler, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
The ocean plays a...
Naturally occurring CO2 also a serious threat
Deep sea carbon reservoirs once superheated the Earth – could it happen again?
Lowell D. Stott, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters,...
Carbon dioxide has a huge impact on Earth’s climate
Climate explained: why carbon dioxide has such outsized influence on Earth's climate
Jason West, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Climate Explained is a...
Winter and February 2020 end as second warmest on record
Republished from article on Climate.gov
Author: Tom Di Liberto
March 16, 2020
February 2020 marked the warm end to one of the most unusually warm months and...
Multiple methods for removing CO2 from the the atmosphere will be...
David Goldberg, Columbia University
Concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are higher than at any time in human history, and nine of the warmest...
