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…
Rising Temperatures Are Turning Antarctica Into a ‘Hotspot’ for This Toxic Pollutant
When it comes to hotspots of toxic heavy metal pollution, Antarctica probably doesn’t come to mind. This remote…
Global Warming Has Kicked Into Overdrive, Scientists Warn
It’s been a particularly apocalyptic summer. Relentless, record-shattering heatwaves, untamable wildfires, and deadly floods are just some of…
Stanford Scientists Solve a 252-Million-Year-Old Mass Extinction Mystery
Representative samples of the modern fauna (left three samples) and the Paleozoic fauna (right four samples). Credit: Sarah…
National Academies Report Backs Climate Change Attribution Science
The nation’s top scientific advisory body issued a report on Thursday backing a growing field of science that…
Can Europe Keep Its Medicines Cool in 40 °C+ Summers?
European summers are getting too hot for medicines. As heat waves routinely push past 40 °C across the…
F.C.C. Approves Test of Space Mirror to Light Night Sky Despite Outcry
The federal government has approved plans by a start-up company to test a satellite that would use a…
Trees May Not Slow Climate Change as Much as Scientists Thought
Ecologists and climate researchers have sometimes called it “natural geoengineering.” The idea is elegant in its simplicity: A forest…
Global Warming Could Ravage the Amazon’s Useful Plant Species, Study Finds
Over centuries, the Amazon’s hundreds of Indigenous societies have built up an abundance of knowledge about the rainforest’s…
Antarctica is missing 2 million sq km of sea ice, scientists say the impact may reach far beyond the frozen continent
Antarctica may feel far removed from everyday life, but new research suggests the icy continent could have a…
Without Climate Change, U.S. Heat Wave Called ‘Virtually Impossible’
Heat and humidity as severe, prolonged and far-reaching as this week’s would have been “virtually impossible” in the…
Climate Change: Degrees of denial: Paris blames US for climate change in heated exchange
Heatwave has left France counting more than 1,300 deaths in a few weeks (Picture credit: Reuters) TOI correspondant…