Fossil fuel industry is worsening Western water scarcity, study finds
In the last few years, multiple studies have shown that global warming is intensifying drought and worsening water…
Climate warming drives thermal shocks and accelerated freshwater habitat fragmentation
Species distribution data We used the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species…
Scientists warn a catastrophic climate “extreme of extremes” is becoming more likely
In the opening scene of American writer Kim Stanley Robinson’s “The Ministry for the Future,” a heat wave…
Renewable Energy Industry Is Starting to Spend Big on Elections
The fossil fuel industry has long been a campaign finance powerhouse, using its clout to help put sympathetic…
Earth’s forests took 100,000 years to recover from the last climate shock — this one is moving 10 times faster
The fossil record preserves this same fragmented leaf litter. Comparing the shapes of thousands of epidermal cells with…
A Manhattan-Sized Ice Island Just Broke Off Greenland
Petermann Glacier has shed a rare, Manhattan-sized Arctic ice island that researchers had watched develop for years. Credit:…
How Africa Is Battling Climate Change and the Coming ‘Super’ El Niño
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief. The highlights this week: African countries respond to climate change-driven wildfires, drought,…
Bringing justice to informal adaptation to heat stress
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Particulate air pollution undermines plant water-use efficiency by inhibiting photosynthesis
Keenan, T. F. et al. Increase in forest water-use efficiency as atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations rise. Nature 499,…
Scientists found the sweet spot for dumping iron into the ocean
The planet’s oceans are an ally for fighting climate change. They absorb about a third of all human-generated…
Europe’s Heat Wave, Wildfires Fuel Economic, Energy Pain
It’s been far from an idyllic summer for Europe, where powerful wildfires have incinerated France and Spain, forcing…
Germany’s Gey village evacuated due to raging wildfire near Belgian border
More than 2,000 people evacuated their homes in western Germany on Friday, after a wildfire near the Belgian…