Robin McKie

1 month ago | taipeitimes.com | Robin McKie

By Robin McKie / The Guardian The degradation of the arctic tundra has triggered a terrible chain reaction that can only lead to greater mayhem. The problems that now afflict attempts to establish a military presence in the far north of Canada and Greenland provide timely warnings about the miseries that lie ahead for the rest of the planet as global warming continues its remorseless spread.

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Robin McKie

The problems that now afflict attempts to establish a military presence in the far north of Canada and Greenland provide timely warnings about the miseries that lie ahead for the rest of the planet as global warming continues its remorseless spread. The Arctic has suffered especially early impacts because temperatures here are rising faster than in any other part of our planet. Crucially, this process threatens to trigger even greater climatic mayhem.

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Robin McKie

Several billion years ago, at the dawn of the solar system, a wet, salty world circled our sun. Then it collided, catastrophically, with another object and shattered into pieces. One of these lumps became the asteroid Bennu whose minerals, recently returned to Earth by the US robot space probe OSIRIS-REx, have now been found to contain rich levels of complex chemicals that are critical for the existence of life.

1 month ago | nationalobserver.com | Robin McKie

This story was originally published by The Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration Scientists are about to take part in a revolutionary mission aimed at creating detailed 3D maps of the world's remotest, densest and darkest tropical forests - from outer space. The feat will be achieved using a special radar scanner that has been fitted to a probe, named Biomass, that will be fired into the Earth's orbit later this month.

1 month ago | msn.com | Edward Helmore |Robin McKie

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