South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg appeared on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah on Monday night in his first appearance as a Democratic presidential candidate. “It has been quite a ride for you,” Noah remarked. “It’s been a whirlwind.” Noah noted that only a few months ago, few people in the country knew Buttigieg’s name….
Two Antarctic weather stations recorded unprecedentedly high temperatures in March — offering grim evidence of accelerating climate change. A potential Antarctica record high of 63.5 degrees Fahrenheit was recorded on March 24 at the Esperanza Base, just south of the southern tip of Argentina—a temperature exceeding any figure yet observed on the Antarctic landmass or…
The economics of wind power are looking good, according to a 350-page report issued Thursday by the U.S. Department of Energy, which states that the nation’s swiftly expanding wind industry could help America significantly reduce its carbon emissions, support more than 600,000 jobs, and provide 35 percent of the United States’ electricity needs, all by…
The Obama administration unveiled a plan on Tuesday that would open up a large swath of federal waters off the coast of the eastern United States to oil and gas drilling. Under the plan, drilling in the Atlantic could span from Virginia to Georgia. “This is a balanced proposal that would make available nearly 80…
2014 was the Earth’s warmest year since records began in 1880, according to reports from federal scientists published Friday. The finding reached by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA offers more confirmation of the planet’s warming trend as a result of greenhouse gas emissions. NOAA stated that 2014’s combined global land and ocean…
Pope Francis will take on global warming in 2015, with a lengthy speech on human ecology and climate change to the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics, an address to the United Nations general assembly, and a summit of the world’s main religions, according to the Observer. The Sunday paper reports: The reason for such frenetic activity,…
NASA has released a video of a computer model showing carbon dioxide traveling in the atmosphere across the globe. “Plumes of carbon dioxide in the simulation swirl and shift as winds disperse the greenhouse gas away from its sources,” NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center writes. “The simulation also illustrates differences in carbon dioxide levels in…
After months of secret negotiations, a surprise joint announcement by U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jingping revealed the world’s two largest contributors to global warming have made a non-binding agreement to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions over the next fifteen years and stated their hope that such pledges will spur other nations…
Science continues to take on an increasingly important role at the University of Notre Dame. The university — which views itself as a world class institution — is investing heavily in scientific research. But not all of the research at Notre Dame requires millions of dollars in backing. We spoke to Matthew Eng and Sean…
Insects account for some of the most successful species on earth, and the success of humans has undoubtedly had a large impact on the structure and diversity of insect populations. Trends such as urbanization, agriculture, and climate change have even altered the insects that we typically come in contact with in our backyards, and houses….
