Floating solar panels on 1% of reservoirs ‘could double’ Africa’s hydropower capacity
Solar panels floating on the lakes formed by Africa’s hydropower dams could be a major new source of power, according to a new study.
If...
Case study – identifying myths and fallacies in Climate Science (Mis)Information Briefs
This short blog post and the linked PDF document is the result of a collaborative effort by Anne-Marie Blackburn, Dana Nuccitelli, Bärbel Winkler, Ken Rice...
Explainer: How China could offer ‘debt swaps’ to help developing nations tackle climate change
With the Covid-19 pandemic driving up government debt across many nations, there are growing calls for “debt swaps” to be used to help developing...
Skeptical Science New Research for Week #4, 2021
Diaspora: perception departs from reality
In this collection of articles are two papers currently captivating the attention of people following the science and emergence of...
Explainer: Bord na Móna ending its peat extraction
27 January 2021
If you’ve got a hawk-eye watch on climate news, you probably heard about Bord na Móna’s game-changing announcement earlier this month. But...
Guest post: The role of ‘atmospheric rivers’ in UK winter floods
The arrival of Storm Christoph last week has led to widespread flooding across northern regions of the UK, affecting thousands of homes. At the...
Study: Accounting for value of nature reinforces Paris climate targets
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections
Anew study in Nature Sustainability incorporates the damages that climate change does to healthy ecosystems into standard climate-economics models....
Warming Seas Are Accelerating Greenland’s Glacier Retreat
Greenland’s melting glaciers, which plunge into Arctic waters via steep-sided inlets, or fjords, are among the main contributors to global sea level rise in...
2021 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #4
A chronological listing of news articles linked to on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week: Sun, Jan 17, 2021 through Sat,...
Analysis: The climate papers most featured in the media in 2020
This article, guest authored by Robert Sweeney was originally published on the Carbon Brief website on Jan 13, 2021. The first part of the...
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He's given a whole new meaning to "poached eggs."
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The extremely rare cave-dwelling albino fish with no eyes, the Mexican blindcat, has previously only been known to exist in Mexico.
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