Seas to Continue Rising Even if Climate Goals Are Met
as a really slow process that you can't do much about ... but the next 30 years really matter," lead author Matthias Mengel, of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, told Reuters. Governments are not on track to meet the Paris pledges. Global emissions of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas emitted by burning fossil fuels, rose last year after a three-year plateau. And U.S. President Donald Trump, who doubts that human activities are the prime cause of warming, plans to quit the Paris deal and instead promote U.S. coal, oil and natural gas. Maldives Environment Minister
Some Like it Hot: Scientists Drill off Japan for Sizzling Life
on a drilling ship than on land. Scientists say that they are discovering vast amounts of carbon-based life in the little understood subterranean zone. Still, they reckon deep rocks are too disconnected from the surface to be exploited by humanity to soak up carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas emitted by human activities. And the temperature limits of life are unclear. "My guess is that 121°C is not the highest temperature at which life can grow and replicate," Derek Lovley, a U.S. scientist who helped identify Strain 121, the microbe that can reproduce
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