Editor’s note: Marshall Brain – futurist, inventor, NCSU professor, writer and creator of “How Stuff Works” – is a contributor to WRAL TechWire. He’s also author of “The Doomsday Book: The Science ...
As efforts to restore tree cover accelerate to help avoid runaway climate change, a new study highlights how restoring tree cover can, in some locations, heat up the Earth rather than cool it by ...
Dear EarthTalk: How feasible is so-called Direct Air Capture as a tool in mitigating runaway climate change? – James Hawthorne, Tampa, FL The United Nations has emphasized limiting global temperature ...
How could climate change worsen over the next 1,000 years and what steps can be taken to mitigate its impact? This is what a recent study published in Environmental Research Letters hopes to address ...
The world’s foremost climate science body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is set to release a new report on our changing climate, and it is important to understand what it is ...
Warning of the risks of “runaway” global warming, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday called on global leaders to rein in climate change faster. Warning of the risks of “runaway” global ...
UNITED NATIONS — Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Monday that the world is facing “a direct existential threat” and must rapidly shift from dependence on fossil fuels by 2020 to prevent ...