Scientist confronting the rising global threat of mosquitoes
Growing up in Tahiti, Anna-Bella Failloux saw first-hand the threat posed by mosquitoes: nearly a third of adults…
Atlantic ‘cold blob’ could bring about big chill, rising seas: study
It’s the attack of the chiller blob. While climatologists fear skyrocketing temperatures, scientists are now warning that a…
Food Waste Becomes a Powerful Carbon Trap in Climate Breakthrough
Still life featuring protein beads loaded with potassium hydroxide. The porous material acts as a sponge for CO2.…
Fossils from Chinese Cave Fill Crucial Gap in History of Gigantopithecus blacki
Deep inside a limestone cave in southern China, paleontologists have uncovered an assemblage of thirteen fossilized teeth belonging…
Lawmakers push to stop Trump dismantling of ocean observatory project
SEATTLE (AP) — A group of Democratic senators and one Republican, as well as two Democratic House committees,…
Human-driven sea-level rise has quadrupled the frequency of coastal sea-level extremes since 1900
Nicholls, R. J. Adapting to sea-level rise. in Resilience: The Science of Adaptation to Climate Change (eds Zommers,…
Biscayne Bay Is Slowly Becoming the Ocean
In the shadow of Miami’s skyline, in water churned daily by boats and jet skis, juvenile great hammerhead…
America’s Solar Just Hit a Critical Milestone That Won’t Make Trump Happy
In yet another blow to the Trump administration’s energy agenda, solar overtook coal power generation in the U.S.…
West Antarctic winter ice fails to form in Bellingshausen Sea in area ‘size of France’
Scientists say a region on the west side of Antarctica is missing a large chunk of winter sea…
The Climate Change Culprits Not Addressed by Global Policy
Record-high global temperatures aren’t driven only by well-known greenhouse gas culprits. These other emissions, unlike carbon dioxide, don’t…
Melting icebergs are dropping rocks onto the Arctic seafloor, and those stones are turning into deep-sea homes for marine life as climate change quietly redraws where life can live
Climate change usually means trouble, but a new discovery is flipping the script for some marine life. Melting…
Trump administration ordered to restore national park signage on climate change, slavery
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore signs related to topics such as climate change,…