By: Tom Hale/IFL Science Scientists have found another patch of plastics, human trash, and chemical sludge deep within in a remote pocket of the Pacific Ocean. Much like the more northerly “Great Pacific garbage patch” found between Hawaii and mainland US, it’s definitely not good news. The new patch was recently confirmed by a project led…
France’s Effort To Steal America’s Climate Scientists Is Working
By: Robin Andrews/IFL Science Back in February, before his successful election as the President of the French Republican, Emmanuel Macron had a message for Americans beleaguered federal scientists: come to France. Eventually, details emerged of a program, mischievously entitled “Make Our Planet Great Again,” that set aside $69 million and four-year-long research grants for climate scientists that took…
Climate Change Authority No Longer Has Any Climate Scientists On It
By: James Felton/IFL Science A climate change authority in Australia has a grand total of zero climate scientists, after their final climate scientist left the board. Professor David Karoly left the Climate Change Authority (CCA) after finishing his five-year term. He is the only scientist to have stuck out his term there, the Guardian reports. Other climate scientists, including Professor Clive…
What Did Stephen Hawking Mean When He Said Trump Could Turn Earth Into Venus?
By: Robin Andrews/IFL Science Stephen Hawking is clearly not a fan of President Trump. Over the last few weeks and months, he’s been particularly aggrieved by the White House’s decision to leave the Paris climate change agreement. Previously, he’s referred to this as the “most serious and wrong decision this world has seen” on climate change. Now, speaking to BBC…
We Only Have Three Years To Prevent Climate Catastrophe, But There Is Hope
By: Josh Davis/IFL Science If global carbon emissions don’t start to decline within the next three years, the planet will be on track for dangerous levels of climate change and the goals set for the Paris climate agreement will be unattainable. In a letter published in Nature, experts including the former UN climate chief Christiana Figueres, have set out…
Sweden Commits To Becoming Carbon Neutral By 2045
By: Josh Davis/IFL Science Sweden has announced even more ambitious targets to cut their carbon emissions. The country now aims to become carbon neutral by 2045, five years earlier than what they pledged when they signed up to the Paris climate agreement in 2015. Passed by a massive majority in the Swedish parliament, with 254…
Flat-Earther’s “Experiment” Goes Viral, Just Not In The Way He’d Hoped
By: James Felton/IFLScience A flat-Earth conspiracy theorist and YouTuber has taken a spirit level onto a plane to “prove” that Earth is flat once and for all. His “experiment” has since gone viral, just not in the way that he’d hoped. YouTube conspiracy theorist D. Marble took a flight from North Carolina to Seattle in order…
NASA Has Detected Hundreds of Unexpected Flashes Reflecting Off Our Planet
By: Bec Crew/Science Alert Hundreds of large flashes have been filmed reflecting off our planet, and they’ve helped NASA solve a mystery that stumped the likes of Carl Sagan more than two decades ago. These flashes are so large, you can see them from space, and they were originally thought to be caused by sunlight reflecting…
Earth Observatory Blog: Scientists March On Earth Day
By: Sabrina SMITH/Earth Observatory In honor of Earth Day, I’m calling attention to the reality of climate change around the world. We know that the planet’s climate is warming from many data sources. Ice cores, corals, ocean sediments, and tree rings tell the story of Earth’s climate over the past 800,000 years. Orbital satellites, sea…