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Scientists say Crawford Lake holds the best evidence for humanity’s overwhelming impact on the Earth -- and should be the 'golden spike' for a new geologic epoch. → Read More
Peru’s “Route of Climate Change” takes visitors to a melting glacier — and aims to teach them along the way. → Read More
A new analysis of the region's worst drought in 40 years said the crisis would not have happened in a cooler world. → Read More
In a new IPCC climate change report, scientists said the world is likely to pass a dangerous temperature threshold within the next 10 years. → Read More
As the world confronts escalating climate disasters, archaeologists say ancient history can reveal what it takes to survive. → Read More
The final decision of the U.N. Climate Conference in Egypt made little progress on emissions-cutting measures that could avert worse disasters to come. → Read More
As nations meet at COP27 in Egypt, studies show the world on track exhaust its carbon budget in nine years -- and new gas projects could accelerate that trend. → Read More
Developing nations have long sought compensation for climate harms. Now, the cost of global warming may be growing too great for rich countries to ignore. → Read More
An analysis by United Nations scientists shows current emissions-cutting commitments put the world on track for a devastating 2.4 degrees of temperature rise. → Read More
Denmark announced at the U.N. General Assembly that it will direct $13 million to vulnerable countries that have suffered “loss and damage” from climate change. → Read More
Amid record heat and extraordinarily dry conditions, Europe notched its hottest summer in recorded history, according to the Copernicus weather service. → Read More
Climate change is supercharging tree diseases as invasive species ravage American forests. → Read More
A bristlecone pine tree on the trail to Telescope Peak, in the Panamint Mountain Range of the Death Valley National Park, Calif. (Sundry Photography/iStockphoto/Getty Images) The world’s longest-lived trees couldn’t survive climate change The trees had stood for more than 1,000 years. Their sturdy roots clung to the crumbling mountainside. Their gnarled limbs reached toward the desert sky. The… → Read More
With temperatures spiking to 110 degrees once more, Jeetram Yadav sat in the shade on his farm outside New Delhi and cupped a handful of this season’s disappointing wheat between his calloused palms. The grains were brown and the size of cumin seeds, shriveled by heat. “I can speak for my village: Everybody has had the same fate,” said Yadav, a 70-year-old who grows wheat and rice on his… → Read More
Rising temperatures and dwindling oxygen levels are decimating marine species. But humanity can avert mass die-offs by curbing fossil fuel use and other planet-warming activities. → Read More
Satellite observations show the Amazon rainforest is nearing a tipping point where it could shift into a grassland, which could fuel climate change and imperil biodiversity, according to a study published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change. → Read More
The comments by Oleg Anisimov, a scientist at the state hydrological institute, mark a rare public rebuke of the Russian invasion by a government official. → Read More
New research shows how rising temperatures have irreversibly altered both the Arctic and Antarctic. Ripple effects will be felt around the globe. → Read More
But new data show that the warming ocean is eroding the eastern ice shelf from below. Satellite images taken as recently as last month and presented Monday at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union show several large, diagonal cracks extending across the floating ice wedge. These weak spots are like cracks in a windshield, said Oregon State University glaciologist Erin Pettit. One… → Read More
Fertilizing seawater and electrifying waves are among potential strategies for storing carbon in the ocean, scientists say. → Read More