Thermal Reckoning
The most telling measure of today’s climate crisis is not the headline temperature spike or the spectacle of a heatwave, but a quieter, more consequential shift: the Earth is now consistently absorbing more energy than it releases.
The most telling measure of today’s climate crisis is not the headline temperature spike or the spectacle of a heatwave, but a quieter, more consequential shift: the Earth is now consistently absorbing more energy than it releases.
You feel parched, maybe after a thorough session at the gym or simply after overworking yourself inside your centralised office space or after running a kilometre trying to make it on time for your first class.
In recent weeks, headlines have captured public imagination with the tantalizing phrase: “Dinosaur eggs found on Mars.” NASA’s Curiosity rover, tirelessly exploring the slopes of Mount Sharp in Gale Crater, recently imaged a set of rounded, clustered rock formations that immediately drew attention.
Famed NASA astronaut Jim Lovell, who commanded the harrowing Apollo 13 mission that was forced to abandon a lunar landing attempt in 1970, has died aged 97.
After more than two weeks aboard the International Space Station (ISS), Indian astronaut Shubanshu Shukla is heading home, with science samples in tow and a suitcase full of memories.
"Air and water pollution must be stopped. Land must be made fertile again with the help of trees of mixed species, and the earth once again be clothed in a green mantle of trees. The balance of nature must be restored. Paradise must be regained.”
An astronomer on the James Webb Space Telescope team explains how to send a giant telescope to space, and why.
The only option available to combat this crisis is reducing global GHG emissions.
The Planetary Boundaries define, as it were, the boundaries of the ‘planetary playing field‘ for humanity if major human-induced environmental change on a global basis is to be avoided. Transgressing one or more PBs may be highly damaging or even catastrophic.
Carrying capacity itself is a well-known and widely accepted concept in ecology. It is a basic idea relating to sustainability. It often serves as a basis of sustainable development policies that attempts to balance the needs of today against the resources that will be needed in the future.
