Source: Scientific American

Articles from this source (16)

Gas Stoves Leak More Methane Than Previously Thought | Scientific American

  2024-03-02 (or before) in Scientific American

  Tagged under: Methane

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Why Are Alaska's Rivers Turning Orange?

  2023-12-21 (or before) by in Scientific American

Streams in Alaska are turning orange with iron and sulfuric acid. Scientists are trying to figure out why

  Tagged under: Rivers | Alaska

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Don't Fall for Big Oil's Carbon Capture Deceptions

  2023-12-05 (or before) by in Scientific American

Carbon capture technology is a PR fig leaf designed to help Big Oil delay the phaseout of fossil fuels

  Tagged under: Fossil Fuels | Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Carbon Capture and Storage | Disinformation and Misinformation

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Dams Worldwide Are at Risk of Catastrophic Failure

  2023-09-17 (or before) by in Scientific American

Here’s why disasters like Libya’s dam collapses happen and how to prevent them

  Tagged under: Libya | Collapse

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We Can’t Solve Our Climate Problems without Removing Their Main Cause: Fossil-Fuel Emissions

  2023-02-09 (or before) by in Scientific American

“Realists” argue that climate plans need to accommodate oil and gas, but that only perpetuates the climate crisis

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Why Scientists Got the Fast Pace of Arctic Warming Wrong

  2022-11-18 (or before) by in Scientific American

Concerns about accusations of hype may have biased them toward conservative underestimates

  Tagged under: Arctic

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Bold New Jersey Shore Flood Rules Could Be Blueprint for Entire U.S. Coast

  2022-08-24 (or before) by in Scientific American

Coastal flood zones where development is restricted will be based on future climate change projections, not past floods

  Tagged under: Climate Change

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Subverting Climate Science in the Classroom

  2022-07-05 (or before) by in Scientific American

Oil and gas representatives influence the standards for courses and textbooks, from kindergarten to 12th grade

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U.S. Project Reaches Major Milestone toward Practical Fusion Power

  2022-02-26 (or before) by in Scientific American

In a world first, the National Ignition Facility has generated a “burning plasma,” a fusion reaction on the cusp of being self-sustaining

  Tagged under: Nuclear Power | Nuclear Fusion

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These Bacteria Steal from Iron and Could Be Secretly Helping to Curb Climate Change

  2021-09-28 (or before) by in Scientific American

Photoferrotrophs have been around for billions of years on Earth, and new research suggests that they have played an outsize roll in the natural capture of carbon dioxide.

  Tagged under: Climate Change

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Climate Anxiety Is an Overwhelmingly White Phenomenon

  2021-07-25 (or before) by in Scientific American

Is it really just code for white people wishing to hold onto their way of life or to get “back to normal?”

  Tagged under: Climate Anxiety and Grief

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Safe Limit for Global Warming Is Lowered Dramatically by Experts

  2021-06-23 (or before) by in Scientific American

Carbon taxes and nuclear power will be necessary to cut CO2 emissions quickly enough to avert disastrous climate change, they say

  Tagged under: Nuclear Power | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Geoengineering

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An Urgent Call for a New Relationship with Nature

  2021-03-04 (or before) by in Scientific American

“Forests and Livelihoods: Sustaining People and the Planet” is the theme of this year’s World Wildlife Day

  Tagged under: Wildlife | Trees

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Methane Leaks Erase Some of the Climate Benefits of Natural Gas

  2021-02-11 (or before) by in Scientific American

The switch from coal to gas has driven down CO 2 emissions, but leaks negate much of those gains in the short term

  Tagged under: Methane | Coal

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What Climate Change Does to the Human Body

  2020-09-01 (or before) by in Scientific American

An ENT physician sees the effects in her patients all the time

  Tagged under: Climate Change

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GDP Is the Wrong Tool for Measuring What Matters

  2020-07-29 (or before) by in Scientific American

It’s time to replace gross domestic product with real metrics of well-being and sustainability

  Tagged under: GDP | Economic Growth | Sustainability

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