Three pairs of scientists began walking purposefully on one end of a curving Kruzof Island beach on a cloudy, cool and damp Monday, then stopped to take measurements. The three teams, spaced equally apart up the roughly 500 feet from the incoming tide to the grassy skirt in front of the thick forest, repeated […]
The Paris-based agency slammed rich governments for promising to “build back better” but refusing to “put their money where their mouth is.” The International Energy Agency warned Tuesday that global carbon dioxide emissions are on track to soar to record levels in 2023—and continue rising thereafter—as governments fail to make adequate investments in green energy and […]
On Nov. 11, 2014, a global network of telescopes picked up signals from 300 million light years away that were created by a tidal disruption flare — an explosion of electromagnetic energy that occurs when a black hole rips apart a passing star. Since this discovery, astronomers have trained other telescopes on this very rare […]