Did Humans Accidentally Prevent the Next Ice Age? A New Study Makes the Case
The Barnes Ice Cap on Canada’s Baffin Island, photographed on July 12, 2026. Blue meltwater ponds and an…
E.P.A. Loosens Methane Rules for Oil Firms
The Trump administration is moving to weaken federal rules designed to force oil and gas companies to cut…
Humans Accidentally Canceled the Next Ice Age, Scientists Say
For billions of years, Earth has experienced periodic glacial cycles governed by its orbit around the Sun. No…
Arctic ice had been expanding for at least 1,000 years before reaching its greatest extent around 1960; researchers say greenhouse warming then reversed a natural slide toward another ice age
Reducing ice cap due to global warming. A new study suggests that the Arctic was already moving towards…
A New Ice Age Was Beginning. Then Humans Started Burning Fossil Fuels
“After the ice cap retreated, mosses eventually colonized this newly exposed land,” says Nicolás Young, a paleoclimatologist at…
Something Unexpected Is Happening to Antarctica’s Collapsing Ice Cliffs
Antarctica’s towering ice cliffs may be more resilient than scientists once feared. New satellite observations reveal surprising natural…
Britain-sized Doomsday Glacier is melting faster than feared
The high cliffs of Thwaites Glacier taken from the British Antarctic Survey Twin Otter aircraft (Rob Larter/British Antarctic…
12 Trillion Tons of Polar Ice Are Already Gone and What’s Left Is Melting Fast. But the Biggest Culprit Isn’t Surface Melting
A photo showing polar ice melting in Greenland. Image credits: Dave Meckler/Unsplash The world’s great ice sheets are…
New Research Strengthens the Link Between Warming and Extreme Weather
There is an increasing body of evidence connecting climate change and severe weather events. In 2004, a group…
Is Antarctica’s ice loss unavoidable and a crucial warning? Why extra snowfall can’t save the ice sheet and what it means for coastal areas
Is Antarctica’s ice loss a crucial warning? Why extra snowfall can’t save the ice sheet and what it…
178 Fossil Fuel Giants Have Already Locked In Centuries of Warming
The vast majority of planet-warming emissions come from just 178 oil, gas, and cement companies known as the…
Climate change worsened Ireland’s July drought conditions, new research suggests
CLIMATE CHANGE HAS made extreme July conditions eight times more likely, a new study from Maynooth University has…