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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The most overhyped sustainable products and what shoppers should know
Many products marketed as sustainable come with environmental tradeoffs that consumers may not realize. d3sign/Getty Images Walk through…
Finding and saving the world’s biggest trees before they disappear
Found on the island of Taiwan, The Heaven Sword is the tallest tree in East Asia. Measured at…
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…
Breaking free from fossil fuels is urgent but hard – Colombia shows why
Colombia’s outgoing president Gustavo Petro, a former guerrilla and the country’s first leftist leader, came to power in…
Italy’s €23 Billion Plan to Support Renewable Energy Buildout Approved by EU
The European Commission announced that it has approved a €23 billion state aid program by Italy to support…
A global early warning system for predicting exposure of biodiversity to extreme heat
IPCC Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability (eds Hans-Otto Pörtner, H.-O. & Roberts, D. C.) (Cambridge Univ.…
Can AI help coastal cities prepare for rising seas and extreme events?
Our novel artificial intelligence model can predict extreme storm surges with high accuracy, including under future climate conditions.…