Articles about Climate change – Page 12 of 12

Another boost for biofuel: Waste wood helps power Alaska Airlines commercial jet

Alaska Airlines says it sent a Boeing 737 jet on the first commercial airline flight that was partially fueled by… Read More

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Week in Geek: What Donald Trump’s presidency means for the tech industry

Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election surprised the world this week, and the implications across the tech industry are vast.… Read More

How President Trump will change science policy, starting with climate issues

Donald Trump’s surprise victory in the presidential election opens the way for a profound reversal in environmental policies, even as… Read More

Has Leonardo DiCaprio signed up for Elon Musk’s trip to Mars? It’s just a joke, people!

For a time, the Internet was agog over Leonardo DiCaprio’s claim that he’s getting a ticket to Mars – presumably as… Read More

Stephen Hawking in "Into the Universe" on Discovery Channel

Stephen Hawking and 374 other scientists speak up for climate pact (and against Donald Trump)

An open letter from 375 scientists is voicing concern about GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s views on climate change – and… Read More

Libertarian Gary Johnson fills out the foursome for Science Debate’s policy quiz

Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson may not be on stage for this year’s televised presidential debates, but he is getting his say… Read More

Bad news for the polar bears: Arctic sea ice is shrinking in all habitats, UW team says

Scientists have long known that Arctic climate change is bad news for bears, but University of Washington researchers quantify just… Read More

‘Migrations in Motion’: Visualization shows where climate change will push species

A University of Washington professor’s research into climate-caused migrations has been transformed into a hypnotic map of the Americas that gets… Read More

From haven to hell: NASA climate models suggest Venus may have been habitable

Today Venus is a hellish planet with a crushingly dense atmosphere of carbon dioxide, but billions of years ago, it… Read More

Zillow says climate change could leave 2M U.S. homes underwater — literally

The U.S. housing market is finally recovering from the Great Recession — but now comes the tide of an equally insidious threat:… Read More

How climate change plus asteroid struck a ‘one-two punch’ for dinosaur extinction

Scientists generally agree that a catastrophic asteroid blast killed off the dinosaurs and most of Earth’s other species more than… Read More

Scientists trace starfish die-off to virus plus warmer seas, but mysteries remain

The mass die-off of starfish off the West Coast is becoming a little less mysterious: Scientists say the starfish, also… Read More

Elon Musk explains why a carbon tax is as necessary as garbage collection fees

Policymakers have been debating – and dismissing – the idea of putting a tax on carbon emissions for more than a decade,… Read More

OLYMPEX exposed: Inside the flying NASA lab that’s probing our rain clouds

JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. – I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now – from below, on the receiving end of an… Read More

NASA’s OLYMPEX rain-measuring campaign gets off to a good, soggy start

JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. — The weather forecast for the Olympic Peninsula is dark and rainy, and that’s putting the scientists behind NASA’s… Read More

Climate refugees? New study examines future impact of global warming on Pacific Northwest population

Forces of nature greater than the tech industry could be responsible for Seattle’s next population boom. That’s if you believe… Read More

LinuxCon: Zipcar’s Robin Chase believes open-source collaboration can solve the world’s biggest problems

Zipcar co-founder Robin Chase is worried about climate change. If countries don’t strictly follow climate-friendly initiatives, we could see the… Read More

Pacific Science Center helps visualize climate change since 1880 – in seconds

Understanding how climate change is reflected in global temperatures can make one’s head spin. So the Pacific Science Center is… Read More

‘Cool’ Pope Francis acknowledging science, pushing for action on climate change

Religion and science have always been strange bedfellows. Just ask Neil deGrasse Tyson. Pope Francis is now taking on climate… Read More