As the planet warms, many expected ecosystems to change faster and faster. Instead, a massive global study shows that species turnover has slowed by about one-third since the 1970s. Nature’s constant ...
With the world already experiencing ‘crop failures, intensified natural disasters and infectious disease outbreaks’, climate change is a growing threat to the UK’s ability to feed itself ...
He breaks down the science in simple terms. When the planet is cooler, soil and oceans absorb more carbon dioxide. As temperatures climb across millennia, the stored carbon is released back into the ...
An international team featuring faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York has drilled the longest ever sediment core from under an ice sheet, providing a record stretching back ...
Crossing Planetary Boundaries (PB)—a concept that defines nine potential ecological “tipping points”—could spell doom for ...
Forests are also bearing the brunt of global warming. Scientists recently examined satellite data ranging from 1985 to 2020 and made a striking discovery: that boreal forests, the largest terrestrial ...
Ten years after the Paris Agreement took effect, newly released climate datasets show the world warming at an accelerating ...
Earth’s climate system may be approaching a set of irreversible thresholds that, once crossed, could lock the planet into a dramatically warmer state for centuries. A major multi-author synthesis ...
A good buddy of mine tried to use the recent cold snap to make a claim that global warming is a liberal hoax. He got annoyed ...
Key climate tipping points may be closer than expected, raising the risk of accelerating warming, sea-level rise, and ...
The Trump administration has taken a major step in dismantling American climate policy, while global temperatures continue to rise and extreme weather events become more frequent, leading to a call ...
The Arctic is warming faster than the rest of the planet, with average temperatures increasing by about 4°C in the last four ...