Earth’s energy imbalance has doubled – here’s why that matters
Heatwaves across Europe and south Asia have dominated the news recently. But these events are really a surface…
World will cross 1.5°C warming limit by 2030 if emissions continue at current rate – report
The world is edging dangerously close to the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C warming threshold, with human-induced warming reaching 1.37°C…
Scientists Have Detected Something Deeply Alarming at the Bottom of the Ocean
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One-in-100-year coastal floods now happening twice a year in Wellington – study
Sea level rise caused by climate change is set to expose areas like Wellington to more frequent coastal…
‘Feels like harassment’: Montreal café owner says years of language inspections taking a toll
Inside SoLIT Café in downtown Montreal, orange-grove-inspired decor hangs from the ceiling above customers sipping coffee, chatting with…
Good news for renewables: southern Australia’s offshore winds will stay strong even as the climate changes
If you’ve ever stood on a Victorian beach and felt the wind from the Southern Ocean, you’ll know…
Amplified Arctic iceberg traffic reshapes benthic biodiversity
Iceberg imaging and sampling During expedition PS126 of RV Polarstern, the opportunity arose to visit a large iceberg…
One-in-100-year coastal floods now happening twice a year in Wellington – study
Sea level rise caused by climate change is set to expose areas like Wellington to more frequent coastal…
Earth’s Earliest Animals May Have Thrived Too Easily to Evolve
Fossils from some of the oldest-known animals on Earth, dating from 574 million years ago (Ediacaran period), suggest…
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Cleaner air is making marine clouds about 2.8% less reflective per decade over the North Atlantic and Northeast Pacific, and scientists say that “clean-air paradox” is letting more sunlight hit the water and helping oceans warm faster than forecasts expected
Cleaner air has brought enormous public health benefits, but a new climate study points to a strange side…
Life after death: From burned trees to bleached corals, how dead organisms live on as the building blocks of new life
People’s knee-jerk reaction to seeing death in nature is often not positive. The burn scar left by wildfire…