For 2017, the Jeep Compass finds itself somewhere between the Cherokee and Grand Cherokee in terms of exterior styling, taking on the former’s shapeliness and the latter’s facial features. Compass shoppers have two four-cylinder engines to choose from: a 158-horsepower 2.0-liter base engine or an available 172-horsepower 2.4-liter engine. Acceleration is meager with both, and the standard engine is especially …

Fashion designer Sophie Theallet is urging her colleagues in couture to follow her example by refusing to “dress” the future first lady Melania Trump. Designer Sophie Theallet announced that she will not dress Melania and is asking designers to do the same to protest the corrosive ideals touted by her husband, President-elect Donald Trump.

As the Earth’s atmosphere warms, the cooling effects of volcanic eruptions may be thwarted, according to a new research from the University of British Columbia. When an eruption is powerful enough, volcanoes spew sulfur gasses high into the atmosphere, reaching a layer called the stratosphere, about 10 to 15 kilometres above the Earth’s surface. Here, gasses react with water to …

Dozens of the world’s nations most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change pledged to act to limit global temperature rise to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels and to transition to 100 per cent. The countries are also to eliminate high-carbon investments and harmful subsidies under the commitment, which is adopted at a high-level meeting of the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) …

A new report from the United Nations Development Program is sounding the alarm on the economic cost of climate inaction. The United Nations Development Programme issued today a report commissioned by the Climate Vulnerable Forum, independently developed together with climate science and policy institute, Climate Analytics, entitled Low Carbon Monitor at the UN Climate Change Conference at Marrakech (UNFCCC COP …

Extraordinary new aerial photos show a contemporary uncontacted tribal community estimated to be home to 100 people in the Amazon. The village is in the Yanomami indigenous territory in the north of Brazil, close to the Venezuelan border. About 22,000 Yanomami live on the Brazilian side of the border, and at least three groups of them have no contact with …

A new study concludes warm climate is more sensitive to changes in CO2, published this week in Science Advances and led by Tobias Friedrich from the International Pacific Research Center (IPRC) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, concludes that warm climates are more sensitive to changes in CO2 levels than cold climates.

Two moose were recently found frozen in battle and encased in ice near a remote village on Alaska’s unforgiving western coast. Brad Webster, a middle school social studies and science teacher in Unalakleet, captured images of the dead animals with their antlers poking through the ice. He had taken a friend who recently moved to the village for a walk …

The latest study by researchers from ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich suggests that excessive consumption of fatty foods could severely disrupt the development of the prefrontal cortex in the maturing brains of young people. This could potentially lead to cognitive defects in later adulthood in areas such as learning and memory, personality and impulse control. Junk food is …

A new survey found that more Canadian drivers are adopting the use of winter tires, breaking previous record numbers. The survey was conducted by Leger for the Tire and Rubber Association of Canada (TRAC).. Outside Quebec (where winter tires are obligatory), 61% of Canadian drivers now use winter tires.

Scientists discovered that the guano or feces of the migratory seabirds has a slight cooling effect in the Arctic during its warmer months. They found that there are higher levels of ammonia in the air in the Arctic sites that come from the feces of the birds. “We identified a fascinating, albeit somewhat comical, connection between Arctic seabirds, atmospheric particles, …