Enlarge / The output of a modern climate model allows us to detect trends despite the chaotic nature of the underlying system. (credit: NOAA ) Complex behavior is all around us. Think of something like the economy. It has lots of components, each with its own set of rules and all of them interacting in […]
Enlarge (credit: Hans Meleman | Getty Images) It’s an oppressively hot morning in the barnyard, even in the shade of the long open-air structure where the cows come to feed. On a typical farm, they would gather around a trough, but here at UC Davis they chow from special blue bins, which detect when and […]
Enlarge / So many airplanes are in line on the runway waiting for take off. These Air Force planes are part of Operation stop service to transport in Covid-19 situation. (credit: Naruecha Jenthaisong | Getty Images) Fastening the seat belt buckle and knowing your flight is on its way to its destination: Nice. Getting stuck […]
Turning on the new “Wildfire” layer. [credit: Google ] Google-maps is getting a few new features to help people better understand our burning planet. The first is a new “fire” layer in the main map view, which will let you view the exact boundaries of a wildfire just as easily as you can look up […]
Enlarge / John Stossel speaking with attendees at the 2018 Young Americans for Liberty New York City Spring Summit at the Teaneck Marriott at Glenpointe in Teaneck, New Jersey. (credit: Gage Skidmore / Flickr (CC BY-SA 2. 0) ) Former Fox Business host John Stossel is suing Facebook, alleging that the social media company and […]
Celebs need to be smarter about things like this! We know there are a million logistical issues to traveling while famous, but taking a private jet back and forth to a climate change event is not a great look! Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are feeling the heat right now (pun intended!) as social media users […]
Enlarge / Coal plants at the end of the line? (credit: Ryan Pyle / Getty Images) Chinese President Xi Jinping used his speech to the United Nations General Assembly to announce a major new step towards controlling global emissions. After reiterating his own country’s climate pledges, Xi said that China would start making it easier […]
Enlarge / Signage for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) is displayed inside the company’s headquarters in Hsinchu, Taiwan. (credit: Ashley Pon/Bloomberg ) The dirty secret of the computing and networking world is that most of its pollution comes not from the electricity used to run the devices, but from the energy and materials used to […]
Enlarge (credit: Kyle Monoon | Mercury News | Getty) California is famous for its beach weather, but it’s also growing increasingly infamous for its “fire weather, ” which is when high temperatures, strong winds, and low humidity combine to prime the landscape to burn. It’s no accident that you’ve been hearing so much about wildfires […]
Enlarge / Some of the massive volcanic deposits that are part of the Siberian Traps. (credit: MIT ) The end-Permian mass extinction was a big deal. It was the largest bulk extinction event ever and occurred 252 million years ago. A whopping 90 percent of all marine species and around 70 percent of their terrestrial […]