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Scientists just found Arctic marine heat waves have increased since the 1980s, and a Barents Sea event lasted 480 days because melting sea ice and warming waters are rewriting the region’s climate clockThe Arctic Ocean is experiencing unprecedented marine heatwaves, lasting longer and becoming more intense due to climate change and melting...
Data centers are stewing in their own pollutionA new study reveals a significant portion of planned data centers face high climate risks, potentially becoming uninsurable due to extreme ...
Global warming likely to exceed 1.5C through 2030, WMO saysThe World Meteorological Organization reports an 86% chance of a year between 2026 and 2030 surpassing 2024's heat. This trend exacerbates ...
‘Zombie Worm’ awakens after 24,000 years: Scientists revive a frozen worm that can survive freezing, starvation and even reproduce without partner‘Zombie Worm’ revived by scientists: A 24,000-year-old microscopic worm, a bdelloid rotifer, has been revived from Siberian permafrost, ast...
Scientists thought this ancient ice sheet was stable until buried fossils revealed a lost forest beneath AntarcticaScientists discovered fossils revealing Antarctica was once a swampy temperate rainforest. This ancient forest existed around 90 million ye...
Millions are moving away from traditional air conditioning toward this electricity-free cooling methodA groundbreaking cooling system called Nescod is here. Developed by scientists, it cools without electricity. This innovation uses common m...
France unveils plan to ditch all fossil fuels by 2050France has unveiled a groundbreaking roadmap to end its reliance on fossil fuels. Coal use will cease by 2030, followed by oil in 2045 and ...
Cherry blossoms are proof of a planet going awryScientists attribute these changes to human-caused carbon dioxide emissions and urbanization. The early blooms serve as a visible sign of b...
Extreme weather could endanger over one-third of land animal habitats by 2085, study warnsA major scientific study warns that climate change could significantly impact global wildlife in the coming decades. Researchers found that...
Paris pledges would curb extreme heat but climate goals at riskThe concerns are rising that the agreement's goals may be missed, with officials in the UK and EU expressing doubts about current efforts t...
Summer of 2024 was world's hottest on record, EU climate change monitor saysThe world has experienced its warmest northern hemisphere summer on record, according to the European Union's climate change monitoring ser...
Earth to warm up to 2.9C even with current climate pledges: UNThe UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has warned that countries' greenhouse gas-cutting pledges are putting the Earth on track for catastroph...
Earth to warm 2.5-2.9C even with current climate pledges: UNBased just on existing policies and emissions-cutting efforts, the world would heat 3C, the United Nations said Monday. The 2015 Paris Agre...
'No end in sight' to rising greenhouse gases, says UN weather agencyThe World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reported that greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere reached a record high in 2022, wi...
UN: World 'nowhere near' hitting emissions targetsThe United Nations says current pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions put the planet on course to blow past the limit for global warming ...
'Now or never' to avoid climate catastrophe, warns UNHumanity has less than three years to halt the rise of planet-warming carbon emissions and less than a decade to slash them almost in half,...
Glasgow climate talks are down to the wire on money, ambition and fossil FuelsA draft agreement released Friday morning called for a doubling of money to help developing countries cope with climate impacts and said na...
View: Can geoegineering fix climate change?The trade-off between geoengineering and carbon removal depends on one’s time horizon. The sooner cooling is pursued, the greater the envir...
In planes and SUVs, world's richest 1% produced twice as much CO2 emissions as poorest half of humanityThe richest 10% accounted for 52% of emissions between 1990 and 2015.
Jupiter's Great Red Spot heats planet's upper atmosphereJupiter is over five times more distant from the Sun, and yet its upper atmosphere has temperatures, on average, comparable to those found ...