Guest post by Honey Gusto, who asks, “Do I need to give up meat to preserve the Earth?” Who would have thought that by eating meat, you may actually be negatively impacting the environment. Or to put it bluntly, you are. Well believe it or not, this can actually be the case, and it’s a…
After centuries of clearing forest find out from Sir David Attenborough why we could soon have more forest than any of us have ever known. Watch the feature film What is Our Planet? A Netflix original documentary series and groundbreaking collaboration between WWF, Netflix and Silverback Films, Our Planet showcases the world’s natural wonders, iconic…
This data visualization depicts the last 25 years of Antarctic land ice elevation change. Areas in red indicate land ice loss. Watch the NASA visualization Areas in blue are regions that saw land ice elevation gains. The camera starts with a view of the Earth and then flies down to Antarctica, where it pauses to…
Scientists at the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Geophysical Institute used data from NASA’s Operation IceBridge to develop a more accurate model of how the Greenland Ice Sheet might respond to climate change in the future, finding that it could generate more sea level rise than previously thought. Watch a narrated NASA model visualization In the…
The Climate State channel was created in 2012, we uploaded over 900 videos to YouTube over the years, considerably increasing content for the platform in the climate science field, for a platform which is otherwise dominated by entertainment. Climate State is the largest not corporate climate focus channel on the platform, has the most subscribers,…
This post will be continuously updated. There are many questions surrounding carbon capture and storage, ranging from feasibility, to the question where to store captured carbon, and how reliable – safe these storage sites are over time. Costs James Hansen calculated the costs of carbon and capture and storage in June 2019:[2] The gap between…
During the unprecedented extreme record breaking June Europe heatwave of 2019, many countries experienced the highest temperature for this month, some even set all time new temperature records, e.g. in the southern village of Gallargues-le-Montueux in France the thermometer settled at 45.9C (114.6F).[1] Europe’s five hottest summers since 1500 have all been in the 21st…