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University of Maine climate scientist Jacquelyn Gill examines a cone from a western pine at the Sawyer Environmental Research Center, Wednesday, May 4, 2022, in Orono, Maine. Gill says her work as a paleo-ecologist and climatologist has given her hope for the Earth's resilience despite global warming. Climate scientists who have been through a lot both personally and professionally say the key is often action. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

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How climate scientists keep hope alive as damage worsens
By SETH BORENSTEIN - AP Science Writer
Sun,05/08/22-9:02AM , 527 Reads
In the course of a single year, University of Maine climate scientist Jacquelyn Gill lost both her mother and her stepfather. She struggled with infertility, then during research in the Arctic, she developed embolisms in both lungs, was transferred to an intensive care unit in Siberia and nearly died.
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A webcam is photographed on Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009 in Muenster, Germany. A study published Wednesday, April 27, 2022 in the journal Nature says if you want to brainstorm during a meeting, it works better in person than over remote video conferencing. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

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Ideas on mute? Study: Remote meetings dampen brainstorming
By SETH BORENSTEIN - AP Science Writer
Wed,04/27/22-9:52AM , 351 Reads
Video meetings dampen brainstorming because we are so hyper-focused on the face in that box that we don't let our eyes and minds wander as much, a new study found.

Staring isn't good for creativity. While it's rude to stare at someone in real life, it's expected when on a video call, researchers said.
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A car is flipped over after a tornado tore through the area in Arabi, La., Tuesday, March 22, 2022, in a part of the city that had been heavily damaged by Hurricane Katrina 17 years earlier. A United Nations report released on Monday, April 25, 2022, says disasters are on the rise are just going to get worse. A new UN report says the number of disasters, from climate change to COVID-19, are going to jump to about 560 a year by 2030. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

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Weary of many disasters? UN says worse to come
By SETH BORENSTEIN - AP Science Writer
Mon,04/25/22-6:35PM , 474 Reads
A disaster-weary globe will be hit harder in the coming years by even more catastrophes colliding in an interconnected world, a United Nations report issued Monday says.
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This combination of July 1998 and April 2020 photos shows a difference in smog levels above the Los Angeles skyline, with California Highway 110 in the foreground. With climate change, plastic pollution and a potential sixth mass extinction, humanity has made some incredible messes in the world. But when people, political factions and nations have pulled together, they have also cleaned up some of those human-caused environmental problems. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, Marcio Jose Sanchez)

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Cleaner Earth: Healing ozone hole, less smog, more eagles
By SETH BORENSTEIN - AP Science Writer
Thu,04/21/22-12:38PM , 647 Reads
With climate change, plastic pollution and a potential sixth mass extinction, humanity has made some incredible messes in the world.
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