News
June 30, 2016
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and elsewhere have identified the "first fingerprints of healing" of the Antarctic ozone layer, published today in the journal Science.
June 14, 2016
Western US wildfires in an increasingly warming climate
June 08, 2016
A mysterious crater in Siberia has grown 15 times its original size since a huge explosion and bright lights were reported in the Area. In 2013, a huge crater opened in a remote area in Siberia, Russia. Since it mysteriously appeared three years ago, the crater has increased in size more than 15 times. Researchers remain baffled unable to explain its origin. The infamous Taimyr crater is located 300 miles from similar new-formed giant holes. The region has been dubbed as the ‘End of the World’ by residents.
May 19, 2016
The arsonists of Fort McMurray have a name
Fossil fuel corporations are causing the climate change fuelling mega-fires – and they should be footing the bill for the devastation.
As the fire that ravaged Fort McMurray finally moves past the city, and the province tallies the heartbreaking damage, a search will begin to discover the source of the destruction.
May 11, 2016
Norway Increases Oil Wealth Spending to Ward Off Recession. Norway’s government boosted the amount of oil money it will spend this year to a record, dipping deeper into its sovereign wealth fund to ward off a recession. The government will use 205.6 billion kroner ($25 billion) of its oil wealth, up from the 195.2 billion kroner it estimated in October, according to the budget released in Oslo Wednesday. The spending will have a stimulus effect of 1.1 percentage point, which is the most since 2009 and up from 0.7 percentage point in the initial budget.
May 11, 2016
Drillers forfeit millions of acres amid slump in oil prices. After plunking down more than $2.5 billion for drilling rights in U.S. Arctic waters, Royal Dutch Shell Plc, ConocoPhillips and other companies have quietly relinquished claims they once hoped would net the next big oil discovery.
May 07, 2016
Five reef islands have disappeared from the Pacific’s Solomon Islands and six more have been severely damaged due to rising sea levels and coastal erosion, according to new research. Studying the relationship between sea level rise and wave exposure in the “global sea-level rise hotspot,” a team of Australian researchers found rising waters are taking a significant toll on the islands.
May 04, 2016
Destructive Wildfire near Canada's Oil Sands May Have Been Fueled by Global Warming. An unusually intense May wildfire roared into Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, on Tuesday, forcing the largest wildfire evacuation in province history. The flames rode the back of hot, windy weather that will continue through Wednesday and could pick up again this weekend.
April 20, 2016
Approximately seven million people live and work in areas of the Central and Eastern U.S. that are at risk of damage from “induced seismicity” - essentially, manmade earthquakes.
April 18, 2016
Directed energy for planetary defense is now a viable option and is superior in many ways to other proposed technologies, being able to defend the Earth against all known threats. The paper “Directed Energy Missions for Planetary Defense” presents basic ideas behind a directed energy planetary defense system that utilizes laser ablation of an asteroid to impart a deflecting force on the target. A conceptual philosophy called DE-STAR, which stands for Directed Energy System for Targeting of Asteroids and exploRation, is an orbiting stand-off system, which has been described in other papers.