On January 22, a team of NASA scientists announced that they’ve solved the mystery of “missing energy” that was supposedly disappearing somewhere in the Earth’s atmosphere or out into space itself. The motivation for the NASA study came from the results of a 2010 article published in Science by Kevin Trenberth and John Fasullo of [...]

According to the Population Reference Bureau, as of the end of October, our planet has officially surpassed a population of 7 billion people. As the number of people inhabiting our planet gets bigger, the planet itself seems like it is getting smaller. What impact does this population explosion really have on the earth? Human population [...]

Climate change is leading to an all-out rush for natural resources in the Arctic, an area of huge strategic significance for the United States, China and Russia. Higher temperatures are already causing lower sea ice levels and the melting is expected to increase access to the region for natural gas developers, fishermen and tourists. The [...]