March 2015
ESA’s Clean Space Initiative and the role of the LCA tool
...exist to validate and benchmark results against. World leaders from nearly 200 countries participated in last December’s UN climate change conference in Lima The Concurrent Design Facility at ESA now includes an environmental impact parameters in its...
15 March 2019
Major comet impact burned Earth 13,000 years ago
... that became common in Europe during this time. Although it is one of the most well known examples of abrupt climate change on Earth, its origin is still under debate. Many think it was caused by a decline in the strength of deep currents...
02 February 2022
Global warming trend shows no sign of abating
... the late 19th century average, the start of the industrial revolution. “Science leaves no room for doubt: climate change is the existential threat of our time,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. “Eight of the top 10 warmest years...
August 2016
Our changing world and the mounting risk of a calamitous solar storm
... was not being deployed to save the Earth from a massive solar storm, modulating solar radiation to reduce climate change and overheating of the atmosphere? It is more than a little thrilling to think of an invention that could literally save the...
February 2018
Our space future lies in innovation
... reminder about this with what happened in the Caribbean and United States in the autumn of 2017 - is our climate. Climate change is a reality and the real reason for what happened is down to a strong increase in temperature. Usually the southern...
January 2021
Time to change our relationship with space?
... were usually explorers from necessity, not choice; to find new resources, food, places to live and survive as climates changed or populations became threatened. Only in recent centuries has exploration taken the form of personal ventures rather than...
