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Research team surveying the seafloor near Thwaites Glacier. Credit: Alex Mazur / British Antarctic Survey Ice sheet’s demise poses the biggest threat for sea-level rise…
July 8, 2021 Herding could help curb Arctic greening and shrubification caused by climate change. On the Yamal Peninsula in West Siberia, the nomadic Nenets…
A new study has shed new light on why large mammals died out at the end of the ice age, suggesting their extinction was caused…
Hunter-gatherers caused ecosystems to change 125,000 years ago. These are the findings of an interdisciplinary study by archaeologists from Leiden University in collaboration with other…
Plant cells Plant cells inside a leaf seen through a microscope. A group of proteins in plant cells plays a vastly more important role in…
Tornadoes are hard to capture in climate models. The deadly tornado outbreak that tore through communities from Arkansas to Illinois on the night of Dec.…
Cold era, lasting from early 15th to mid-19th centuries, triggered by unusually warm conditions. New research from the University of Massachusetts Amherst provides a novel…
A new study finds that plants are photosynthesizing more in response to more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, but nowhere near enough to remove all…
Researchers from the University of Adelaide have found that the way fish interact in groups is being upset by ocean acidification and global warming. “Fish…
August 9, 2021 Once the second-largest lake in Turkey, it now rarely spans an area much larger than a puddle. Lake Tuz was once the…
Salmon can colonize newly created streams, but face many other challenges from climate change. Credit: Freshwaters Illustrated Retreating glaciers in the Pacific mountains of western…
Two layers of ice in deep snow following the rain-on-snow events of November 2006. Credit: Photo courtesy of Florian Stammler Changes will happen decades earlier…
Lower humidity and higher temperatures are driving extreme weather that makes wildfires more frequent and intense, say experts. The world’s eight most extreme wildfire weather…
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Tarawa Atoll in the Republic of Kiribati – a remote Pacific nation threatened by rising seas. The…
Researchers release an Argo float into the Southern Ocean. Credit: Isa Rosso/SOCCOM A change in the Southern Ocean, the region absorbing the most human-induced warming…
Stalagmites in caves located southwest of the excavation site show a climatic cause for the collapse of the ancient Chinese Liangzhu culture. Credit: Haiwei Zhang…
Climate Change Will Destroy Environments, Create New Ones, and Undermine Efforts To Protect Sea Life
A healthy coral reef in 2012 in the Northern Mariana Islands. A year later, the reef was dead. The reef is a symbol of how…
An international group of researchers reconstructed the recent history of ocean warming at the gateway to the Arctic Ocean in a region called the Fram…
Using carbon tax revenue to fund free green electricity and public transport could significantly reduce individual households’ greenhouse gas emissions, a new study has found. …