Recently, artificial intelligence (AI) has been cast as a problem in the urgent, international effort to tackle climate change. As…
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Earth’s ocean is incredibly vast. Some parts of it are so remote that the nearest human habitation is the International Space Station.…
Several major airlines have pledged to reach net-zero carbon emissions by midcentury to fight climate change. It’s an ambitious goal that will require an…
Across much of the world’s oceans, waves are getting bigger. In the Southern Ocean, where storm-driven swell can propagate halfway…
The massive carbon footprint left behind by emails has been widely discussed by the media, but most of the time these…
Each year around mid-summer, somewhere between December and mid-January, the skies of South Africa’s Gauteng province, including the city of…
Commercial aviation has become a cornerstone of our economy and society. It allows us to rapidly transport goods and people…
When politicians talk about reaching “net zero” emissions, they’re often counting on trees or technology that can pull carbon dioxide out of…
Fifty years ago, U.S. scientists launched a satellite that dramatically changed how we see the world. It captured images of Earth’s surface…
For hundreds of millions of years, Earth’s climate has warmed and cooled with natural fluctuations in the level of carbon…