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There's just one problem: that's not how climate change is likely to unfold. Instead, scientists worry about potential tipping points - triggers that, once reached, could lead to sudden and irrevocable changes in the climate, almost without warning. It's the same phenomenon of sudden collapse that can be...
The hard part will be putting this new knowledge into action. It's true that we have a sense of where some of the tipping points for climate change might lie - the loss of Arctic sea ice, or the release of methane from the melting permafrost of Siberia. But that...
Absolut has pledged $50,000 of profits from the sale of the new liquor to the Charles River Conservancy “as part of the brand’s ongoing commitment to the environment and to further support the quality of life around Boston,” according to...
The idea is to make climate-change predictions a bit more like the weather report, in both accuracy and accessibility. Right now scientists' understanding of global warming is the opposite of the 6 p.m. forecast. While climatologists have a better and better picture of what will happen to the entire...
Habib Ladjevardi, who founded ICMS in 1972, said that he still recalls one lesson from Barnes’ lectures, which he came to follow himself: visiting an employee in his or her own work environment, rather than calling an employee to one’s office.