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People are using the viral '10-year challenge' as a stark warning about what's happening to our planet
The "10-year challenge" that really matters: how melting glaciers, rising seas, and warmer oceans have already changed our planet in the past decade.
What is happening to the water cycle?
The water cycle is intensifying as the climate warms, IPCC report warns — that means more intense storms and flooding
Is There Water on Dwarf Planet Ceres?
New evidence may suggest a crater is hoarding water.
What is happening in the energy industry?
The theme of this quarters energy industry update is "How Soon is Now?". What this really means is how quickly can we make all the change that's coming in th...
What the Heck Is Happening in the Developing World?
One of the most important energy graphs these days shows actual and projected energy consumption in the world, separated between developed and developing countries. A version based on data from the…
What is our planet’s “energy budget?”
Scientists like me have been measuring the Earth’s energy budget since the 1980s. You’ll be hearing more about it in the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report.
Climate change could change what we eat. It’s already happening in Africa.
If your livelihood depends on crops, which need water, and there isn’t any water ... what do you do?
How much water is needed to power our planet?
There is an inextricable tie between energy and water. You need energy to produce clean water and you need clean water to product energy. Using water as effi...
Could Sustainable Clean Energy Securitization Save the Planet?
The financial instrument that nearly collapsed the global economy is being re-engineered to create a new market with a lofty goal: to save the planet.
Let’s Build a Global Skyscraper Network to Save the Planet
A network of skyscrapers that communicate and trade their carbon emissions around the world could form the backbone of a climate change solution.
Greenthink: How profit can save the planet
The U.S. Green Building Council has shown over the years that seeking profit and sustainability can be one and the same.
Tips on how to save energy at home and help the planet
What can homeowners do to reduce their energy consumption?
This Martian asteroid might explain why planets are wet
Water covers around three-quarters of Earth, and it can be found on other worlds of the Solar System, including sub-surface deposits of ice on Mars. One of the great questions in planetary science today is attempting to understand how water came to exist on the surface of planets, including Earth. Water forms naturally during the …
Why You Should Move to Wales If You Want to Save the Planet
In rural Wales, a pioneering and collective housing eco-venture is underway.
What the heck is an ‘areal flood warning' anyway?
Why some creeks have no flood warnings
You've seen plenty of flash flood warnings on your phone or at the top of your TV screen over the last few days, but why are only a few creeks or rivers listed?
Wind River BrandVoice: How Intelligent Systems Can Help Save The Planet
At Wind River, we strongly believe that intelligent technology systems are an integral part of the urgent action to increase energy efficiency.
How close is the planet to reaching a climate tipping point?
Once we reach a climate tipping point there may be no turning back.
What is good for the planet is good for national security and economy
I'm old enough to remember when gasoline cost less than a dollar a gallon in the United States. This was before the first energy crisis in 197...
One-third of known planets may be enormous ocean worlds
Water is a key ingredient for life — and new research suggests we might find it all over the galaxy.<br>Scientists looked at the mass of super-Earths, a kind of planet common across the cosmos but not
