Unwelcome melt: The results are in for a 20-year study of Antarctica and Greenland ice melt, and though you shouldn't grab your swim trunks yet, the results show that ice sheets have been melting at an accelerated pace for the past 20 years. "What is surprising," Eric Rignot from Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, told the BBC, is that ice melt will soon be the single biggest driver of sea level rise.
But don't take these dripping glaciers as a reason to sit on your hands: A new report says that climatologists aren't factoring in soot in the climate debate---and that merely reducing the output from cooking fires and industry could cut global warming by 0.5C. Food for thought (oy) the next time you barbecue.
Lessons from a tree: Engineers have crafted a self-repairing plastic based on the natural self-repairing traits of rubber trees---a discovery that could ...
