These States Are Basically Begging You to Get a Heat Pump
[ad_1] Death is coming for the old-school gas furnace—and its killer is the humble heat pump. They’re already outselling gas furnaces in the US, and now a coalition of states…
The Extreme Sport of Ice Climbing Is at Risk of Extinction
[ad_1] Ice climbers and ecosystems will be forced to adapt as winter patterns change—and Arnold believes the sport will survive. People who engage in outdoor activities are adaptive, he says.…
The World’s Essential Aquifers Are in Deep Trouble
[ad_1] The water that pours out of your tap, or that’s unnecessarily packaged in a single-use bottle, or that helped grow the produce in your fridge—all of it may well…
A New Way to See Your Climate Anxiety
[ad_1] A recent global study, which surveyed 10,000 young people from 10 countries, showed that nearly 60 percent of them were extremely worried about the future state of the planet.…
The Last-Ditch Effort to Stop the Mountain Valley Pipeline
[ad_1] With the Supreme Court green-lighting the MVP, it seems to Larkin and others that there’s only one thing left to do. That is, throw their bodies upon the gears, in…
Trawling Boats Are Hauling Up Ancient Carbon From the Ocean Depths
[ad_1] The fillet of flounder sitting on your plate comes with a severe environmental cost. To catch it, a ship running on fossil fuels spewed greenhouse gases as it dragged…
The Surprising Things That Helped Make 2023 the Hottest Year Ever
[ad_1] In this graph, the orange line shows the global sea surface temperature throughout 2023. The other squiggles are previous years, with the uppermost dashed black line being the average…
Why Humans Are Putting a Bunch of ‘Coal’ and ‘Oil’ Back in the Ground
[ad_1] In addition to burying solid carbon or sprinkling it on fields, researchers are also turning waste biomass into liquid carbon—oil, essentially, that they pump back into the ground instead…
How Your Body Adapts to Extreme Cold
[ad_1] Metabolic details matter to predict health in the modern world, Ocobock says. The same genetic programming that arose to protect someone in the Arctic—like high BMI and faster metabolism—could…
Critical Infrastructure Is Sinking Along the US East Coast
[ad_1] Below is New York’s JFK Airport—notice the red hotspots of high subsidence against the teal of more mild elevation change. The airport’s average subsidence rate is 1.7 millimeters a…