Solar Geoengineering—What Could Go Wrong?
A major effort to limit climate change could actually make the problem much worse. If that sounds maddeningly paradoxical, then welcome to the bizarre science-fiction world of solar geoengineering. There are two main pathways for deliberately altering Earth systems (i.e., geoengineering) in order to reduce the severity of global warming:Continue Reading
Was Comer’s Biden Impeachment Really Just a Shameless Money Grab?
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer’s latest potential book deal about the impeachment effort into President Joe Biden might actually put him in the crosshairs of an ethics investigation. In a letter sent Tuesday to the Office of Congressional Ethics, the watchdog group Congressional Integrity Project requested a probe intoContinue Reading
The ECHR’s First Climate Ruling: What Does it Mean?
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has today ruled that insufficient action to tackle climate change is a violation of human rights. In a historic judgement, the court ruled that Switzerland’s failure to do enough to cut its greenhouse gas emissions breached the rights to life and respect forContinue Reading
A knotty question of parent liability in the Crumbley school shooting case
The parents of a US school shooter have been found guilty of manslaughter. What message does their sentencing send?, The court cases against Jennifer and James Crumbley have hinged on a thorny question: As school shootings become increasingly common in the United States, can parents be held liable for theContinue Reading
My Father, Nour and I: Confronting intergenerational trauma
A refugee from Iraq looks into his family’s past and wonders if his childhood trauma will affect his young son., Witness A refugee from Iraq looks into his family’s past and wonders if his childhood trauma will affect his young son. When filmmaker Wiam Al-Zabari was a young boy, heContinue Reading
Measles outbreak declared as new cases confirmed
Image source, Getty Images Image caption, Measles rashes typically start on the head and spread down the body A measles outbreak has been declared after two new cases were recorded in south-east Wales. Public Health Wales said there had been four confirmed cases in total, all of whom were childrenContinue Reading
New Releases: April 9, 2024
Young Adult Every Time You Hear That Song by Jenna Voris They say to never meet your idols. But they never said anything about upending your life for a quest designed by one. Seventeen-year-old aspiring journalist Darren Purchase has been a lifelong fan of country music legend Decklee Cassel, who’sContinue Reading
Can You Name These LGBTQ+ Films And Series Just From One Image?
“I like Charlie Spring! In a romantic way not just a friend way!” View Entire Post ›, Read More from BuzzfeedContinue Reading
Readers discuss ancient plagues and a fern’s leaf revival
Under the weather New climate reconstructions show that periods of decreasing temperature and rainfall coincided with three plagues that struck the Roman Empire, Bruce Bower reported in “Did climate drive ancient plagues?” (SN: 2/24/24, p. 13). Bower reported that researchers are uncertain exactly how those climate shifts may have influencedContinue Reading
30 Years Later, Rwanda Genocide Shows Consequences of U.S. Refusal to Prevent Mass Killing
Rwanda is holding a week of commemorations to mark the 30th anniversary of the 1994 Rwanda genocide, a period of around 100 days in which up to 1 million Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed by Hutu militias while powerful countries, including the United States, stood by and refused toContinue Reading
Railroad agrees to $600 million settlement for fiery Ohio derailment, residents fear it’s not enough
Norfolk Southern has agreed to pay $600 million in a class-action lawsuit settlement related to a fiery train derailment in February 2023 in eastern Ohio, Read MoreContinue Reading
NFL and its players’ union approve 8 new position-specific helmets for quarterbacks and linemen
Eight new position-specific helmets for quarterbacks and linemen have been approved by the NFL and the NFL Players Association, Read MoreContinue Reading
Mitch McConnell Calls TikTok One Of ‘Beijing’s Favorite Tools Of Espionage’
The House last month passed a bill that would require ByteDance to sell the platform within six months or risk it being banned nationwide., Read MoreContinue Reading