Articles about Climate change – Page 10 of 12

Backed by Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, Breakthrough Energy Ventures lists seven new investments

Breakthrough Energy Ventures, the $1 billion energy innovation fund spearheaded by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, has revealed seven more companies… Read More

Washington Gov. Inslee calls for stronger environmental leadership from state tech industry, as Silicon Valley goes green

SAN FRANCISCO — West Coast tech leaders made the case this week that artificial intelligence, blockchain, machine learning, and big… Read More

Final Delta 2 rocket launch puts NASA’s ICESat-2 satellite in orbit to monitor ice

NASA kicked off its ICESat-2 mission to monitor our planet’s ice sheets from space using a laser-scanning satellite this morning,… Read More

Ships set sail from Seattle on a NASA mission to trace sea creatures’ carbon trail

After seven years of preparation, two research vessels are heading out of Seattle to begin a 40-day voyage to track… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Nori is creating a blockchain marketplace open to all to reverse climate change

Seattle-based startup Nori is hoping to deliver what Al Gore, the Paris climate accord and others have not: a market-driven… Read More

Surprise! Climate experts hail Trump’s pick for top science aide, Kelvin Droegemeier

News Brief: Years after claiming that concerns over climate change were a “total, and very expensive, hoax,” President Donald Trump has… Read More

Antarctic ice loss contribution to global sea level

Warming warning: West Antarctic ice loss rate tripled in 25 years, study shows

An analysis of satellite data collected since 1992 suggests that ocean-driven melting has led to a tripling in the rate… Read More

What Americans want from space: More about Earth, less about moon and Mars

A newly released survey from Pew Research Center suggests that Americans still strongly support the space program, 60 years after… Read More

What caused 2014’s bird die-off on the Pacific coast? Scientists blame the Blob

Researchers have untangled the mystery behind a die-off that felled hundreds of thousands of tough seabirds known as Cassin’s auklets… Read More

Amazon shareholder meeting preview: Tech giant to face protests and proposals at annual event

Amazon shareholders will congregate in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood Wednesday morning for the tech giant’s annual meeting, listening to CEO Jeff… Read More

Al Gore predicts machine learning and other tech advances will usher in a ‘sustainability revolution’

One of the world’s most visible environmentalists is optimistic about the future of the planet because of technology. Former US… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Grapple with climate change via video games; Learn about blockchain in retail; and more

How can video games change the world for the better? That’s the question posed by Games For Our Future: Surviving… Read More

Scientists report successful start to undersea drones’ Antarctic ice shelf study

A scientific team supported by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is reporting the successful deployment of a trio of undersea drones… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Gov. Jay Inslee at Seattle’s GoGreen Conference; Mine for talent at the UW Startup Job Fair; and more

Battling climate change is one of the many points of disagreement between West Coast leaders and the Trump Administration. In… Read More

Do rockets blast away the ozone layer? It’s no biggie today … but watch the skies

Thanks to Blue Origin, SpaceX and other space ventures, the skies could well be filled with rockets in years to… Read More

How connected students are wielding the internet to fight for gun control and climate protection

Students nationwide are wielding the internet and social media as digital weapons to aggressively pursue action on gun control and… Read More

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau and Bill Nye talk science (and pipelines) with students

Canada’s highest-ranking science geek, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, shared a stage with Bill Nye the Science Guy at the University… Read More

Brouhaha builds over Bill Nye the Science Guy’s date for State of the Union Address

Bill Nye the Science Guy is going to the State of the Union Address, but as a guest of President… Read More

Seattle City Light installs first city-owned electric vehicle fast-charging stations

Seattle City Light opened two fast-charging stations for electric vehicles in the city’s Beacon Hill neighborhood Tuesday. The facilities allow… Read More

Biologists sniff out another method that microbes use to make methane

News brief: Every year, microbes produce hundreds of millions of tons of methane, a greenhouse gas that’s more potent than… Read More

As U.S. braces against brutal cold snap, President Trump calls for ‘good old global warming’

President Trump might want to brace against the cold chill of the internet. With much of the northern and eastern… Read More

Scientists get robots ready to study Antarctic ice shelves from below, with $2M boost from Paul Allen

Researchers from the University of Washington and Columbia University are getting ready for an unprecedented months-long campaign to study Antarctica’s… Read More

A $100K prize and a step closer to building the ‘Facebook’ of organic farming in Africa

At many points in his life, Cornelius Adewale could have chosen an easier, less risky path. Thankfully he didn’t. Adewale… Read More

Satellite readings track how climate change is thinning out mountain glaciers

Elevation readings captured by satellites confirm that glaciers in the western United States are fading away at a worrisome rate.… Read More

NASA’s carbon-monitoring OCO-2 satellite confirms that El Nino weather boosts CO2

Readings from NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 have confirmed that the El Niño weather pattern of 2015-2016 was behind the biggest… Read More

Climate Alliance is ‘on track’ for Paris pact with Washington Gov. Jay Inslee’s support

Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee joined with other governors today in New York to declare they’re “squarely on track” to… Read More

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen partners with NOAA to explore climate changes in deep ocean water

As we’re breaking records for high temperatures around the globe and watching forest fires blaze across the Northwest, you can… Read More

IPCC RCP6.0 projections for temperature rise

Analysis shows global warming will almost certainly break the ‘speed limit’ by 2100

A statistical analysis led by researchers at the University of Washington sees almost no chance that the world’s nations will… Read More

Study says climate change could increase North vs. South economic inequality

America’s economic inequality could widen if global temperatures rise due to climate change, but there’s a silver lining for the… Read More

Student climate change project wins President’s Environmental Youth Award — yes, that president

Students at Tesla STEM High School in Redmond, Wash., are being honored today with the President’s Environmental Youth Award (PEYA)… Read More