Sarah Kaplan
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This Canadian lake should mark the start of the Anthropocene, scientists say
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
How a dying glacier became a tourist attraction
Peru’s “Route of Climate Change” takes visitors to a melting glacier — and aims to teach them along the way. → Read More
Climate change caused catastrophic East Africa drought, scientists say
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
World is on brink of catastrophic warming, U.N. climate change report says
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
Drought may have doomed this ancient empire — a warning for today’s climate crisis
As the world confronts escalating climate disasters, archaeologists say ancient history can reveal what it takes to survive. → Read More
COP27 leaves world on dangerous warming path despite historic climate fund
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
World has nine years to avert catastrophic warming, study shows
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
At COP27, flood-battered Pakistan leads push to make polluting countries pay
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
World falls ‘pitifully short’ of meeting climate goals, U.N. report says
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 becomes first U.N. member to pay for ‘loss and damage’ from climate change
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
Europe just had its hottest summer on record
Amid record heat and extraordinarily dry conditions, Europe notched its hottest summer in recorded history, according to the Copernicus weather service. → Read More
As many as one in six U.S. tree species is threatened with extinction
Climate change is supercharging tree diseases as invasive species ravage American forests. → Read More
The world’s longest-lived trees couldn’t survive climate change
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
Climate disasters collide with Ukraine war to deepen hunger crisis
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
Ocean animals face a mass extinction from climate change, study finds
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 images show the Amazon rainforest is hurtling toward a ‘tipping point’
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
Russian climate delegate apologizes on Ukraine, saying many ’fail to find any justification for the attack'
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
Climate change has destabilized the Earth’s poles, putting the rest of the planet in peril
New research shows how rising temperatures have irreversibly altered both the Arctic and Antarctic. Ripple effects will be felt around the globe. → Read More
Crucial Antarctic ice shelf could fail within five years, scientists say
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
Is ‘hacking’ the ocean a climate change solution? U.S. experts endorse research on carbon removal strategies
Fertilizing seawater and electrifying waves are among potential strategies for storing carbon in the ocean, scientists say. → Read More