Scientist Veerabhadran Ramanathan longed for the American dream while growing up in southern India in the 1960s: specifically, a Chevrolet Impala, a muscle car he learned about from his tire salesman father.. Ramanathan made it to the United States in his 20s, but never bought his gas guzzler, mostly because his scientific knowledge of global … Read more
“Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn a commission or revenue on some items through these links.” The Paris Climate Agreements in 2015 set an ambitious (and necessary) goal of keeping global temperatures at 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures. But a study says that we may have exceeded that limit several years ago. Scientists at … Read more
Elon Musk he spends a lot of time talking about Mars, but every now and then he swings back to the planet that actually needs saving, not colonization. A few weeks ago, he jumped on X with a proposal that sounded part climate engineering, part sci-fi storyboard. He suggested that a vast constellation of AI-driven … Read more