Study: Not Much Time Left to Stop Critical Warming Threshold
We have until 2029, and not the mid-2030s, to lower our carbon emissions before reaching that critical, frightening threshold.
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We have until 2029, and not the mid-2030s, to lower our carbon emissions before reaching that critical, frightening threshold.
Air pollution is a contributing factor in millions of deaths per year
Open access notables Publishing in the Journal of Hydrometeorology, Rasmus Wuff proposes a new hydrometeorological metric to help track changes in precipitation as we change our climate, 'precipitation intensity duration index' or PID. As the title implies, The World’s Largest Point Rainfall Found Using the Precipitation Intensity Duration Index reveals a rather eye-popping statistic: in 2007 over the course of just 4 days, Réunion Island's Cratère Commerson was drenched with just shy of 5 meters of rainfall- 4.936 meters to be precise. This p...
As the planes fly overhead in Seattle’s South Park neighborhood, they are a constant reminder of the impact air pollution can cause to someone’s health.
Grist designed a model metropolis for an era of high temperatures, using the coolest technology available.