Investigating end of last Ice Age to understand today’s rapid global warming
By Annika Schmidt Medill Reports TIERRA DEL FUEGO, Chile — Glacial geologist Brenda Hall clambered up the side of a truck-sized, rain-slicked boulder in clothes soaked from a day hiking over forested ridges in the Patagonian wilderness. Despite heavy, steady raindrops clouding her glasses, Hall used a hammer and chisel to chip into the surface […]
Doomsday Clock holds global disaster at 90 seconds to midnight
By Annika Schmidt Medill Reports The iconic Doomsday Clock remains at 90 seconds to midnight, a metaphorical warning for how close humanity is to global catastrophe, experts with the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists revealed on Jan. 23. Climate change, nuclear weapons and disruptive technologies, such as genetic engineering and artificial intelligence, are among the […]
