Scientists investigating melting glaciers have discovered evidence of a previously unknown vicious circle, whereby melted glacial water alters the chemistry on the surface of the ocean and drives further glacial melting, in turn accelerating the rise of seal levels.
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According to the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), the oil and gas industries alone release 75 million metric tons of methane each year. In response, the organization is planning to launch MethaneSAT to identify major sources of methane emissions and identify opportunities for reduction.
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Launched in 2015 and yesterday whittled down to 10 finalists, the Carbon XPrize has now progressed to its final stage. As these teams prepare for this final phase, New Atlas chatted with XPrize's Dr Marcius Extavour about the possibilities that their solutions may bring.
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When you have water seeping into a doomsday facility built to shore up food supplies for the future, well, that's hardly ideal. But such breaches should be a thing of the past, with authorities overseeing the Svalbard Global Seed Vault planning a multi-million dollar overhaul of the structure.
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Scientists have found a surprising global warming culprit – sandwiches. In the first study of its kind, the researchers carried out an in-depth audit of various sandwiches and found that they could be responsible for as much annual carbon as 8.6 million cars in Britain alone.
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Australia's Great Barrier Reef is in a bit of trouble. The Australian government has announced a AU$60 million plan to preserve the world's largest living structure, but environmental experts are wondering whether it is simply a way of avoiding a larger, more complex issue.
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With the once controversial idea of battling climate change through geoenginnering slowly gaining popularity, new research from the University of Exeter offers evidence that this untested approach could result in climate chaos.
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A new study is suggesting a flaw in the way past ocean temperatures have been estimated. It claims oceans may have been much cooler over the past 100 million years than predicted, meaning the current rate of ocean warming is more dramatic than previously anticipated.
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Scientists surveying the state of the world's periglacial zones report that the days for such regions may be numbered. The team now expects climate change to severely diminish these cold regions by halfway through the century, no matter what course of action we take in the meantime.
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We might be on track to topple a climate record that’s held strong for about 56 million years. A new study has found evidence that intense volcanic eruptions were to blame for the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), pumping mind-boggling amounts of carbon into the atmosphere and oceans.
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