Sugar ants’ preference for pee may reduce greenhouse gas emissions

News Release 6-Feb-2020 University of South Australia Sugar ants mining urine in sand on Kangaroo Island Credit UniSA / Sophie Petit An unlikely penchant for pee is putting a common…

Sanders And Warren Campaigns Paid Reparations For An Estimated 2,102 Tons Of Coal Worth Of Carbon In 2019

From The Daily Caller Andrew Kerr And Chris White Contributor February 05, 2020 8:07 PM ET Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren collectively spent $59,138 in carbon offsets in 2019…

Time Magazine: Climate Change Will Make Lethal Coronavirus Epidemics More Likely

Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to Time Magazine, Climate Change makes future Coronavirus epidemics more likely – though Climate probably wasn’t responsible for the current crisis. The Wuhan Coronavirus,…

Cooling the Past: Made Easy for Paul Barry

Reposted from Jennifer Marohasy’s Blog February 6, 2020 By jennifer It is not disputed that Blair Trewin under the supervision of David Jones (both working at the Australian Bureau of…

Big Trouble with Spiders

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen — 6 February 2020 How deeply have you considered the social life of spiders?  Are they social animals or solitary animals?  Do they work together? …

How ESA-NASA’s Solar Orbiter Beats the Heat

From NASA Feb. 4, 2020 When Solar Orbiter launches on its journey to the Sun, there’s one key piece of engineering making this ESA-NASA mission possible: the heat shield. Seeking…