Why you’re freezing in the office: AC thermostat is optimized for a 154 pounds, 40-year-old man
Women often complain the AC is turned way too high at work. Many are forced by necessity to come to ...
Tag: Climate
French Minister: US Congress Won’t Approve Climate Deal
The entire world is expecting the results of the Paris Climate Conference - will a global treaty finally be reach, ...
El Nino likely to develop this year – Australian scientists estimate 70% chances
The scientists from the Australian Meteorology Bureau estimate that there's a good chance that El Nino will form in the ...
Dinosaurs lived in low-oxygen world, amber shows
An international team of researchers led by Ralf Tappert, from the University of Innsbruck, reconstructed the composition of Earth's atmosphere ...
Martian water-ice clouds hold key to mysterious thermal rhythm
Typically on Earth, days usually have a temperature maximum somewhere after lunch, and a minimum during the night. But for ...
Pliocene data suggests current climate models are too conservative
A paleoclimate study has shown that a huge mass of warm water stretched out from Indonesia over to Africa and ...
Record Arctic ice loss – or why Spring isn’t coming
It's important to understand that our planet's climate consists of so much interconnected elements, that what happens someplace affects virtually ...
Hotter climate slashes labour capacity by 10%, study shows
Here's another consequence of global warming: our planet's increasingly hot, wet climate has cut the amount of work people can ...
The El Niño turns out to be more chaotic than previously thought
Why would the El Niño be important for the rest of us that don't live in the western part of ...
The Blue Marble: the most stunning, high-res photo of the Earth
A while ago NASA launched its next generation weather satellite, the Suomi NPP satellite, into low-orbit, on a mission to collect critical ...
Next generation NASA satellite set to improve weather forecast
This Friday morning NASA will upgrade its climate and weather observatory capabilities, when it's set to launch a new, high-end ...
Record High Greenhouse Emission Rates for 2010
A week before the UN Copenhagen climate summit, a disheartening new study conducted by scientists from University of Exeter in ...
Puffins in trouble as numbers dwindle
Where do birds go in the winter? That's a question many of us asked, as kids. Well puffins are currently ...
Prehistoric snake shows what the word “gigantic” was created for
And when I say that snake was big that’s how it was- really BIG. It had the length of a ...
Gore’s Challenge: 100% Carbon Neutral by 2018
Who isn't paying attention when Al Gore is talking? The impact he has on people from America and all around ...
Climate Change Threatens Drinking Water
As sea levels rise coastal communities could lose up to 50 percent more of their fresh water supplies than previously ...
Cave Records Provide Clues To Climate Change
Basic paleoclimatology and one a little more There have been many climatic shifts throughout the geologic period of our ...
