by Sarah DeWeerdt | Feb 12, 2019
When it comes to climate change, scientists tend to talk numbers: a 3 °C increase in average temperature, for example. But such predictions are abstract and remote from everyday life, making it difficult for regular people to grasp the real-world consequences of... 
by Sarah DeWeerdt | Feb 5, 2019
People are less happy on days when the air is more polluted, according to an analysis of 210 million posts on the Chinese social media site Sina Weibo. Researchers have suspected that air pollution takes a psychological toll generally, and that dirty air due to... 
by Sarah DeWeerdt | Jan 29, 2019
Human activities are pumping excess carbon dioxide into the air; plants remove carbon dioxide from the air through photosynthesis and use it to fuel their growth. That neat equation has spurred hopes that a so-called “fertilization effect” of increased atmospheric... 
by Sarah DeWeerdt | Jan 22, 2019
In the United States, climate change has become a partisan issue: Democrats and liberals are likely to accept that human-caused climate change is occurring, while Republicans and conservatives are apt to doubt or deny this. But the reasons for this divide might not be... 
by Sarah DeWeerdt | Jan 15, 2019
Nearly 8,000 offshore oil and gas rigs are currently in operation around the world. These installations represent massive infrastructure with a finite lifespan. In the next five years, more than 600 rigs are expected to wrap up operations. An additional 2,000 will be... 
