CO2 Conversion On Overdrive, Scientists Create Synthetic Scrubber 20 Times Better Than Plants
Nov 18, 2016 06:23 am UTC| Nature
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is one of the most common gasses in the earths atmosphere, courtesy of emissions from decaying organic substance and the mountains of wastes that both humans and animals often produce. With the rise in...
Second State Of Liquid Water Discovered By Physicists Via Temperature Variance
Nov 16, 2016 10:34 am UTC| Science Nature
Liquid water is one of the most common compounds on the planet, with over 70 percent of the Earths surface covered with it. As a result, it has been tampered with, experimented on, and subjected to all kinds of tests in...
Hurt by sea: how storm surges and sea-level rise make coastal life risky
Nov 15, 2016 04:58 am UTC| Nature
Australia is a huge continent, but a coastal nation. About 80% of Australians live within 50km of the coast, and a sea-level rise of 1.1 metres (a high-end scenario for 2100) would put about A$63 billion (in 2008 dollars)...
Recycling Greenhouse Gases, New Method For Reducing Climate Change Impact
Nov 15, 2016 04:38 am UTC| Nature
Greenhouse gasses like carbon dioxide and methane are what causes the heat from the sun to get trapped within the earths atmosphere, thus causing global warming. Now, theres a new scientific method called a super-dry...
World set for hottest year on record: World Meteorological Organization
Nov 14, 2016 12:41 pm UTC| Nature
2016 is set to be the worlds hottest year on record. According to the World Meteorological Organizations preliminary statement on the global climate for 2016, global temperatures for January to September were 0.88C above...
Fossil fuel emissions have stalled: Global Carbon Budget 2016
Nov 14, 2016 08:57 am UTC| Nature
For the third year in a row, global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels and industry have barely grown, while the global economy has continued to grow strongly. This level of decoupling of carbon emissions from...
Get ready for the biggest 'supermoon' in nearly six decades
Nov 13, 2016 16:19 pm UTC| Nature
The biggest supermoon since 1948 will grace the sky on November 14. But what makes it so super? Well, not much more than the fact that itll be a bit bigger than normal, but thats absolutely no reason not to go outside and...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects