Volcanic eruptions from Iceland to Alaska may not only be messing with air travel. They could be helping slow global warming. A new study concluded that small volcanic eruptions from 2000 to 2013 may have ejected more of the atmosphere-cooling sulfur d…
Business leaders say climate change threatens economy
While the impact of climate change typically draws environmentalists and political types to the issue, it’s now the focus of a group of high-powered executives who say Americans should view it as a business risk. In a report called “Risky Business,” business leaders including billionaire Michael Bloomberg and former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and Goldman Sachs (GS) CEO Henry Paulson compare climate change to an interest-only loan, a risky form of borrowing that helped trigger the housing crisis…The report was prepared by economic research firm Rhodium Group, with the research led by Robert Kopp, a climate scientist at Rutgers University, and economist Solomon Hsiang of the University of California, Berkeley.
Powering the future: Will algae fuel your next car?
Professor Juergen Polle is packing up his laboratory on a sweltering morning in New York City, but the beakers and test tubes aren’t going on summer break. The professor of biology at Brooklyn College has run out of funds for his research, and is shutt…
