15 November 2021
Earth's lower atmosphere is rising due to climate change, new study says
... ever before. “These results provide independent confirmation, in addition to all the other evidence of climate change, that greenhouse gases are altering our atmosphere”, Randell says. What's more, the rate of the rise seems to be increasing. After...
March 2016
Saving Earth from an Expanding Sun
... entirely of carbon dioxide. That kind of death spiral will happen to Earth - either if we fill the atmosphere with greenhouse gases or if we just wait one or two hundred million years as the inner edge of our Sun’s habitable zone moves...
February 2022
Building space-qualified detector chips
... which protect us all from damaging UV radiation and the abundance of other greenhouse gases, such as methane. While it is possible to measure the concentrations of these gases from sensors stationed on Earth, such an approach suffers from several...
June 2022
Sunshades in space could help alleviate Earth’s climate crisis
... is warming rapidly and anthropogenic climate change is driving higher concentrations of greenhouse gases in Earth’s atmosphere. Left unchecked, the cumulative greenhouse gas burden on Earth’s atmosphere could accelerate in the coming decades and...
December 2014
Terraforming Mars: from CFCs to Total Recall
... freons that have been implicated in the destruction of stratospheric ozone on Earth, but which are also good greenhouse gases. This mechanism, though, would require innumerable and continuing numbers of interplanetary flights because the CFCs break...
March 2015
JAXA’s challenge to climate change
... mainly in industrialized countries in the Northern hemisphere and absent in the Southern hemisphere or over oceans. GOSAT The Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite (GOSAT) was launched in 2009 as the world’s first satellite to monitor CO2 and methane...
