House Plants Don’t Really Clean Indoor Air
There are many reasons why you’d want to have house plants in your home or office. One benefit that often pops in people’s minds is that plants can help clean the indoor air. But is this true? An...
View ArticleThe Antarctic Ice Sheet Could Melt Faster Than Predicted
Rising sea levels are one of the most disastrous potential consequences of global warming. Since these sea levels are largely dependent on the Antarctic ice sheet, it is important to predict how...
View ArticleBeyond Beef: Study finds Sweets, Alcohol and Eating Out Lead to Higher Carbon...
Greenhouse gas emissions are known as major contributors to global warming, by staying in the atmosphere for a long time and producing a warming effect by trapping heat. All collective systems and...
View ArticleResearchers Use Cloud Seeding to Make it Rain
As huge water sources like the Colorado River or Arizona’s Lake Mead begin to dry, many American states are facing water shortages that will only worsen with time. In response, researchers are turning...
View ArticleInternationally Banned Ozone-Destroying Pollutant Emissions in China have...
Thirty-five years ago, scientists reported a massive opening in the ozone layer above Antarctica. That breakdown of the ozone layer, life’s protective shield from the Sun’s harmful ultraviolet light,...
View ArticleLightning Oxidation May Remove Harmful Air Pollutants
Globally, ambient air pollution is linked to 4.2 million deaths every year. Recent research published in Science has shown that lightning may play an important role in removing harmful pollutants from...
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Reversing Climate Change with Geoengineering
by Sanjana Kulkarnifigures by Jovana Andrejevic The average global temperature is increasing faster now than at any time in the last 2 million years. This has fueled record-breaking droughts, heat...
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Finding Life in Space: Why are we so special?
by Wei Lifigures by Catherine Ding The universe is massive, with an estimated 70 quintillion planets—that is 70 followed by an additional 18 zeros. In the Milky Way alone, where we reside, there are...
View ArticlePangaea 2.0 may drive mammals to extinction
Three hundred million years ago, our world looked very different than it does today. Instead of seven continents, we had one: Pangaea, a supercontinent surrounded by a global ocean. Due to a process...
View ArticleScientists solve a mountainous mystery
Dolomite is a common mineral in old rock formations like the Dolomite Mountains in Italy, the White Cliffs of Dover in England, and the escarpment associated with Niagara Falls in North America....
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