Unprecedented glacier melting will leave US peaks ice-free for the first time, new study finds
ADVERTISEMENT Mountain glaciers are a key feature of various United States national parks, such as Yosemite National Park…
Former US landfill turned into 7 MW solar farm, cutting costs, emissions
Turning waste into watts, Baltimore County, Maryland, in the US, has unveiled a large-scale ground-mounted solar farm on…
North American ice sheets drove most of the sea-level rise after the last ice age
When the planet was heating up at the end of the last Ice Age, ice-melt flooded out by…
Mountain glaciers recouple to atmospheric warming over the twenty-first century
Weather station data We obtain hourly on- and near-glacier air temperature (Ta) data for 169 individual glaciers over…
Record-breaking Amazon fires triggered as much CO₂ as an entire country last year
Published on 10/10/2025 – 7:00 GMT+2 ADVERTISEMENT The Amazon rainforest has undergone its “most devastating” forest fire season…
a16z-backed climate tech startup Crux acquires AI firm Daedaline
About six months after raising $50 million, climate technology startup Crux is acquiring an AI-powered due diligence platform…
The Ocean Is a Carbon Toilet. Marine Heat Waves Are Clogging It.
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. The planet would be a whole…
Earth is getting darker and it’s changing the planet’s climate balance
For nearly twenty years, satellites have quietly gauged the flow of sunlight and heat through the Earth’s atmosphere.…
‘A new way to look … in the past’
Most people are familiar with the notion that “tree rings” — the concentric bands visible on a cross-section…
Scientists wake up microbes trapped in Arctic permafrost for 40,000 years
Far beneath the icy Alaskan tundra, life lay dormant for tens of thousands of years. In ice-laden soil…
Synchronization of global peak river discharge since the 1980s
Merz, B. et al. Causes, impacts and patterns of disastrous river floods. Nat. Rev. Earth Environ. 2, 592–609…
‘Used to be quite a rare phenomenon’
The seas that surround the U.K. have hit their warmest temperatures on record, forcing changes to some aquatic…