Category Climate change

Viewing the earth and sky: here are two apps

These two apps are awesome. There’s Star Walk – 5 Stars Astronomy Guide which costs $2.99 (and worth every penny). Star Walk enables you to point your iPhone at the sky and see what stars, constellations, and satellites you are looking at…

Climate change in the Amazon

From those crazed environmental radicals at Scientic American. Agricultural expansion and climate change are altering the Amazon. The dry season is longer. Soil runoff is increasing. Trees are growing faster, absorbing more carbon (which is good.) But the Amazon is…

Climate change: NASA scientists have a plan

Drew Shindell of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York City and his team looked at hundreds of proposed measures to deal with climate change using a model developed by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). A new…