Scientists Have Detected Something Deeply Alarming at the Bottom of the Ocean
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‘An equal and habitable world is possible’: academics set out sweeping vision for planetary survival | Environment
Humanity can raise living standards, reduce inequality and keep global heating within a 2C rise, according to a…
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…
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…
Watch Duty Is Adding Flood Alerts to Its Wildfire App
Watch Duty, the wildfire alert app, is introducing flood alerts to its popular disaster-awareness service. This is the…
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…
Heat Is Killing Wildlife Across the Animal Kingdom. A New Forecasting Tool May Help.
At the end of May, eight endangered Asiatic lions died at a national park in India. Officials feared…
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…
Record winter temperatures in Antarctic raise fears over speed of climate breakdown | Polar regions
Temperatures in the Antarctic climbed above 15C this month, shattering the previous winter heat record for the usually…
Coastal floods are linked to climate change and sea level rise
Extreme floods that once swamped coastal communities only rarely are becoming far more common as climate change caused…
Mysterious ‘cold blob’ in the Atlantic is a sign of the Gulf Stream weakening — and that’s bad news for the US East Coast
A mysterious “cold blob” in the Atlantic Ocean is a sign that key ocean currents are weakening, a…
Greater international co-operation is needed to achieve the UN’s global forest goals
While many people tacitly appreciate the intrinsic and aesthetic value forests and trees provide, governments and policymakers have…