Tag: climate change

Mr. Powell, Drop The Sledgehammer And Start Innovating

The US Federal Reserve System is living in the past and undoing the future. Chairman Jerome Powell and his colleagues have wielded interest rates...

Why ‘Carbon Emissions’ Are Now ‘Climate Pollution’

California activists fought to frame climate change as an air quality problem. Now it’s federal law.

Randall Munroe Is Back to Answer Your Impossible Questions

I was first just reading about how MRIs have got really big magnets in them, and thinking: I know that the magnetic field extends...

Donnel Baird Raises Over $100 Million For BlocPower By Discovering The Right Problem To Solve

Donnel Baird created BlocPower to solve a huge problem that’s central to the global effort to address climate change. It is such a big...

California Skincare Brand Goes Ocean Positive

SeaTrees member exploring kelp forests. SeaTrees Malibu-based skincare brand Osea is working with SeaTrees, a local non-profit specializing...

Wildfire Smoke Is Terrible for You. But What Does It Do to Cows?

Other animals on the farm, too, may be vulnerable to wildfire smoke. Horses have massive lungs—the animals are born to run and suck in...

Spotting Objects From Space Is Easy. This Challenge Is Harder

This spring, when the teams submitted their results to IARPA, evaluator teams graded how well each one did. In June, the teams learned who...

How Ants Inspired a New Way to Measure Snow With Space Lasers

Ants, as a group, are creatures of habit. While an individual’s path isn’t certain, biologists who have spent a lot of time watching the...

Japanese car giant Honda targets EV expansion, earmarks billions for R&D

With several major economies looking to cut the number of diesel and gasoline vehicles on their roads, Honda and other carmakers are attempting to...

Astronomers Tally the Growing Carbon Footprint of Space Science

For generations, astronomers have spent lonely evenings at remote mountaintop observatories peering at stars and planets as they whirl overhead. Today’s astronomy, however, is...

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