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32 weird ways to fight climate change that just might work
From "MooLoos" to painting mountains, these silly scientific suggestions could actually help with climate change.
Drinking wastewater, building an island from scratch and creating an urban forest: 3 bold ways cities are already adapting to climate change
Climate change will fundamentally challenge the world's urban centers. Three cities — San Diego, Milan and Jakarta — offer lessons for how to adapt to a warming planet.
Simple trick could lower city temperatures 3.6 F, London study suggests
Painting city roofs white could lower the temperature in London dramatically on the hottest days, new research suggests.
Record-breaking fires engulf South America, bringing black rain, green rivers and toxic air to the continent
The Amazon fires, fueled by severe drought exacerbated by climate change, have created a toxic smoke cloud spanning about 4 million square miles — an area larger than the entire United States.
'Completely unexpected': New type of wood discovered by scientists dubbed 'midwood'
Tulip trees were long renowned for their carbon storage. Their unique wood may be responsible.
Greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than CO2 is rising in the atmosphere — and fast
Human activities now account for two-thirds of all methane venting to the atmosphere, and our efforts to staunch the flow are not yet bearing fruit.
Ancient viral genomes plucked from glaciers reveal how pathogens have adapted to Earth's shifting climate
Over the past 41,000 years, viral communities have varied significantly between cold and warm climatic periods, scientists found.
Large patch of the Atlantic Ocean near the equator has been cooling at record speeds — and scientists can't figure out why
Scientists are trying to decipher what drove the recent dramatic cooling of the tropical Atlantic, but so far few clues have emerged. "We are still scratching our heads as to what's actually happening," the researchers said.
Climate change may allow the Earth’s oldest, tiniest creatures to dominate — and that's seriously bad news
Creatures that existed billions of years before plants and animals poised to become dangerous climate change winners.
Earth is wobbling and days are getting longer — and humans are to blame
New studies, which utilized AI to monitor the effects of climate change on Earth's spin, have shown that our days are getting increasingly longer and that our planet will get more wobbly in the future. These changes could have major implications for humanity's future.
