Live Science spoke with climate change researcher Jong-Seong Kug about how a super El Niño could cause lasting damage to our world.
Climate change, combined with development in high-risk areas, is making urban wildfires more likely. The post Urban firestorm devastates Spokane as dense smoke envelops the Northwest appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
A listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, July 26, 2026 thru Sat, August 1, 2026. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Change Impacts (7 articles) State of the climate: Rapidly developing El Niño raises chance of record-warm 2026 Chances of a record setting 2026 El Niño rapidly increase, taking us closer to an important warming threshold. Carbon Brief, Zeke Hausfather, Jul 24, 2026. Why is Germany building roads for yesterday's climate? As the Autobahn buckles under heat waves, Germany is still paving roads for a past climate. Engineers know how to fix that — so what's the holdup? DW, Tim Schauenberg, Jul 28, 2026. Summer of Heat, Fires and Storms Is...
Donate by midnight to double your contribution. The post Last chance: Help me cover hurricanes appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
The European Space Agency's two-satellite HydroGNSS Scout mission has completed commissioning and is now in full scientific operations.Following extensive testing and validation of the satellites, instruments and ground segment, HydroGNSS data are now freely available to users worldwide, opening new opportunities to advance our understanding of water availability and the impacts of climate change on Earth's water cycle.
Permafrost in the Arctic stores large quantities of organic carbon. When the frozen ground thaws or coastal sections erode, this carbon can enter the sea, where microorganisms can break it down and convert it into climate-damaging greenhouse gases. The extent to which this carbon actually enters the atmosphere, however, and how much remains in the ocean has hardly been quantified to date. Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute and MARUM – Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen have now been able to answer this question for the first time for the permafrost coast of Qikiqtaruk (Herschel Island) in Canada. With the help of sediment cores, they discovered that considerable amounts of terrestrial carbon are stored in the seabed. It also became apparent that...
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Volume 131, Issue 8, August 2026.
Two newly discovered bird carvings reveal early humans' keen eye for artistry in the ice age world 40,000 years ago.
Dolphin is the fifth Category 5 of 2026, putting 2026 ahead of the pace from the all-time record of 1997, when 12 Cat 5s occurred globally. The post Historic Super Typhoon Dolphin hits Category 5 strength in the Northwest Pacific appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Protection and restoration of marine environments are essential for food security and climate change mitigation. Yet historical and archaeological research have shown that conservation and management often rely on arbitrary ecological baselines in ...
Too hot? Head to the Concordia research station in Antarctica, where "astronauts of ice" just experienced near-record-breaking cold.
It’s one of the reasons global sea levels are rising. The post Climate change causes the ocean’s waters to expand appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Skeptical Science is partnering with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. You can submit claims you think need checking via the tipline . Do solar plants require backup from fossil fuels? Solar plants require backup, but it doesn’t have to be from fossil fuels. A combination of renewables, energy storage, and long-distance transmission can reliably power the majority of the U.S. without relying on coal, oil, or natural gas, as one 2017 research paper describes. Renewables like wind can generate under cloudy conditions, while surplus solar from brighter weather can be stored in utility-scale batteries for rainy days. Additionally, transmission from neighboring regions can assist solar capacity drops. The Department of Energy...
Image: These images by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission, captured on 26 July, show the area to the west of Bordeaux, France, where wildfires continue to burn countryside, fanned by wind and heatwave conditions.
With gas prices soaring, my electric car was the cheapest mode of transportation for a trip to Wisconsin. The post I saved more than $200 on my EV road trip appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
A listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, July 19, 2026 thru Sat, July 25, 2026. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Change Impacts (11 articles) Insane': Republicans Push To Punish Canada For Wildfires “We will not tolerate this incompetence,” vowed Ohio Sen. Bernie Moreno, who may not understand how climate change works. Huffington Post, Jennifer Bendery, Jul 17, 2026. UN to list more sites as 'in danger' from conflict or climate change Phys.org, Simon Valmary and Celia Lebur, Jul 18, 2026. As mosquito ranges expand, better monitoring is key to preventing disease Monitoring is expensive and labor intensive. But it helps public health officials stop outbreaks...
We want to make this our most successful season of hurricane reporting to date, and that’s why we’re asking for your help today. The post Help us cover hurricanes; become a sustaining donor appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 24 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02708-8Global temperature change over long times after cessation of greenhouse gas emissions is not well constrained. Now, research shows a consistent global cooling, especially if negative CO2 emissions compensate for continued CH4 and N2O emissions.
Invasive alien species (IAS) are a major threat to biodiversity, yet their impact distribution remains poorly understood. Global biodiversity assessments suggest the highest impacts in wealthy countries of the Global North, but this is only inferred from ...
This is a re-post from The Climate Brink Over the past week smoke from Canadian wildfires has once again poured into cities across Canada and the northern US. Toronto briefly had the worst air quality of any major city on Earth , Thunder Bay’s readings went off the top of Canada’s air quality health index scale, and unhealthy air alerts stretched from Minneapolis to New York City . This smoke-pocalypse has renewed a long-standing debate online that these fires aren’t really about climate change at all, but about forest mismanagement. Decades of aggressive fire suppression, the argument goes, have let fuel pile up. We don’t log enough, thin enough, or do enough prescribed burning The forests are overgrown tinderboxes and we have...
More analysis is needed to ensure that tropical forest degeneration and regeneration are consistently reported in carbon cycle models and in national reporting, according to a study funded in part by ESA's Climate Change Initiative Biomass project.The study analysed how tropical forests store carbon under varying conditions and then release it back into the atmosphere. The scenarios studied range from complete forest destruction through deforestation, which is relatively well understood, to forest degradation, whereby the forest’s condition worsens over time due to damage and organic decomposition, for example through wildfires or selective logging, which is often inconsistently reported in models or omitted altogether.
Solar panels and batteries allow two Salt Lake City businesses to serve as a community hub during outages. The post The coffee shop and barber shop that stay open when the power goes out appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Volume 131, Issue 7, July 2026.
Strange jellyfish, glowing squid, and tiny plankton help move carbon out of the atmosphere and into the deep ocean. The post The hidden ocean world that helps regulate our climate appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 131, Issue 14, 28 July 2026.
New joint research from the Met Office and the University of Reading has revealed that a prolonged marine heatwave in the North Sea played a significant role in intensifying the impacts of Storm Babet (18 to 21 October 2023).
The tropical system is forecast to spread heavy rain and storm surge threats as its wind field expands. The post Tropical Depression 2 crawls in the Gulf, trying to organize appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Low cloud cover has been expanding since 1979, reflecting more sunlight into space, but scientists expect that trend to reverse and accelerate global warming
The hills and basins of Seattle, Washington, have been sculpted by glaciers and modified by humans.
A listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, July 12, 2026 thru Sat, July 18, 2026. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Change Impacts (7 articles) New research : Doomsday Glacier ice shelf could 'give way any day now' "Just have a Think" on Youtubue, Dave Borlace, July 5, 2026. Grey whales are dying along our shores. Researchers say a warming climate may be part of the problem Although a number of factors may be contributing to the die-off, scientists say it’s likely at least partly due to climate change. Melting Arctic ice and warmer waters may be reducing the number of small sea creatures the whales rely on for food, and altering the selection of what does remain. CBC''...
Most of the fires grew out of control under extreme heat conditions made up to five times more likely by climate change. The post Dangerous and historic wildfire smoke pollution event engulfs the U.S. and Canada appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Heaven Lake is a body of water located 7,200 feet above sea level at the top of a volcano. It is the deepest lake in China as well as the highest and largest crater lake in Northeast Asia.
The Eastern Pacific is roaring ahead. Now the Atlantic is waking up—and the season's peak could pack a bigger punch closer to land. The post The Eastern Pacific is a tropical storm factory, and the Atlantic Basin shows signs of life appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Challenges to the voluntary zero-deforestation pact could impose costs for forests and the soy sector
The impact of high humidity on top of high temperatures is often underappreciated, but most of us aren't prepared for such extreme conditions, which will become more common with global warming
And now the Trump administration is asking us to bear even more of a burden. The post Families like mine industrialized the South. We paid the price in air pollution. appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
A global science project is asking volunteers to search Arctic satellite images for the animals, which are threatened by climate change. The post You can help scientists study walruses appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Live Science spoke with sea level expert Sönke Dangendorf about how human-caused sea-level rise is increasing extreme water levels, as once-in-a-century flooding events become decadal.
This is a re-post from The Climate Brink by Andrew Dessler I have a commentary in Carbon Brief today, written with my friend, Prof. Chris Callahan . It focuses on the recent heatwave in France. One point we wanted to make, but that was downplayed after the elves at Carbon Brief edited the piece, is that this event should make us rethink the victory lap people took after RCP8.5 was judged to be implausible . The focus on arguments about emissions scenarios that only affect the climate late in this century takes the spotlight off the fact that the impacts of climate change are already here and they’re significant, as this French heatwave shows. The reduction in future emissions is good news, but it may be cancelled by the fact that models seem to be...
Climate change added between 3-4°C to maximum temperatures and is estimated to be responsible for about 42% of the deaths across both heatwaves
A listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, July 5, 2026 thru Sat, July 11, 2026. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Change Impacts (11 articles) Ocean surface temperatures hit record high as world enters ‘uncharted territory,’ scientists warn Temperatures on the ocean surface hit a record high in June, European scientists warned Wednesday, fueling fears of more dangerous heat waves this summer and fanning concerns over the escalating global climate crisis.y NBC News, Chantal Da Silva, Jul 1, 2026. Heat, Drought, & Fires Disrupt USA`s 250th Anniversary - But We Ain`t Seen Nothing Yet A country that is by and large ignoring global heating is having celebrations...
July 11, 2026: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend
Climate change is already having a big impact on crop yields, and the subsequent financial losses will continue to rise as the world keeps warming
An energy expert explains how batteries can lower electric bills, keep homes running during outages, and ease pressure on an increasingly strained grid. The post Home batteries could become the next must-have household appliance appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
This month, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California are testing a spacecraft sensor that will help measure how quickly Arctic sea ice is disappearing. And while that instrument won’t launch for another year, scientists started preparing for its use during a recent field campaign in the Canadian wilderness. Researchers spent two weeks […]
Poder Latinx created a bilingual website to help people understand how policy decisions influence electricity bills. The post Nonprofit encourages Latinos to get politically involved amid rising energy costs appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 131, Issue 13, 16 July 2026.
This is a re-post from Carbon Brief Clean power added more to global energy supplies than any other source in 2025, according to the latest Energy Institute statistical review of world energy. Outside the Covid pandemic, it was also the first year ever in which wind and solar, when combined, contributed more new energy than any of the individual fossil fuels. The findings illustrate the “growing prominence” of electricity in the global energy system, according to the Energy Institute , a professional membership body that took over the production of the annual statistical review from oil firm BP in 2023. It notes that electricity demand is rising much faster, at 3% in 2025, than energy use overall at 1.7% – and that all of the new power supply came from...
Learn how Early Paleoindians may have survived on a diet made almost entirely of mammoths, giant ground sloths, and other Ice Age mammals.
And it’s an increasing threat with climate change. The post In flood-prone areas on the Texas-Mexico border, predatory loans are a problem appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Bavi is expected to gradually weaken this week and threaten northern Taiwan and Japan's Ryukyu Islands as a Category 3 storm on Friday. The post Cat 5 Super Typhoon Bavi pounds the U.S. Northern Mariana Islands and Guam appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
The fate of the Atlantic Ocean current that keeps Europe’s climate warm depends on our carbon emissions and the rate of ice melt from Greenland, but there is a chance that a shutdown is already inevitable
A listing of 29 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, June 28, 2026 thru Sat, July 4, 2026. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Change Impacts (11 articles) The scientist and his family tracking melting glaciers for nearly half a century PBS NewsHour, Ben Tracy, June 22, 2026. Europe’s record heatwave: does the continent have a new climate? Nature asks researchers whether scorching summers are the new norm for London, Paris and Berlin. Nature, Edward Chen, June 26, 2026. How climate change gets under the skin Researchers unearth clues about how repeat, overlapping climate stressors, from flood-related mold to warming water temperatures to higher pollen counts, affect everyone...
Brine that feeds the gruesome-looking Blood Falls in East Antarctica may have been emplaced when sea levels were higher than they are now, a new study says.
In this excerpt from "Despite it All," author Fred Pearce explores the ways plants are adapting and evolving in the face of climate change — and how we need to recognize this reality and foster its potential boost to biodiversity, rather than holding steadfast to our notions of what types of nature should and shouldn't be allowed to thrive.
A prolonged heatwave, exceptionally low rainfall and widespread drought conditions have combined to make July 2026 a remarkable month.
The EU project SYNCHRONY will launch on August 1st, 2026. It aims to contribute to a better understanding of the rapid changes taking place in the complex system comprising the ocean, ice and atmosphere in the Southern Ocean and around the Antarctic ice shelves, as well as their impacts on the global climate and biodiversity. Led by the Alfred Wegener Institute, researchers from a total of 27 global partner institutions from around the world will work in interdisciplinary work packages to optimise and expand the existing observing system, harmonise data streams, and create new data products that document the state of the climate system and biodiversity. The project thus also provides an important foundation for the international UN Ocean Decade initiative Antarctica InSync and builds on existing...
Raging wildfires disrupted summer in Spain and France amid sweltering heat waves and prolonged drought.
Open access notables Observed Multi-Decadal Acceleration of Globally Averaged Abyssal Ocean Warming , Johnson, Geophysical Research Letters Given sparse historical data in the deep and abyssal ocean, previously only multi-decadal temperature trends have been estimated from observations there on a global scale. Full-depth CTD sampling started circa 1970, with the first decadal global ship-based survey occupied in the 1990s, and the first regional pilot array of Deep Argo floats started circa 2016. Here we fit second-order polynomial functions versus time to all available full-depth CTD profile temperature data in local spatial bins to estimate changes in the rates of these multi-decadal temperature trends. We find a statistically significant increase of the heating rate of...
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 131, Issue 15, 16 August 2026.
This July 23, 2026, illustration depicts charged particles from a solar storm stripping away charged particles of Mars’ atmosphere, one of the processes of Martian atmosphere loss studied by NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) mission. NASA MAVEN mission scientists have found that certain types of auroras on Mars form in a similar way […]
The installations help keep electricity flowing at this Wisconsin reservation even when a major storm knocks out grid power. The post Menominee Nation elders are getting solar and battery systems appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
As it feasts on near-record oceanic warmth, Genevieve will stay safely out to sea. The post Genevieve becomes the first Category 5 hurricane of 2026 appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
High pressure will bring dry, fine and increasingly warm weather for many this week.
This is a re-post from The Climate Brink A graph has been making the rounds on social media showing the average number of days per weather station above 95F, 100F, and 105F across the contiguous US since 1895. It comes from CFACT analyst Chris Martz, drawing on raw data from NOAA’s Global Historical Climatology Network daily dataset (GHCNd), and it shows the 1930s towering over everything since. The implication is that extreme heat in the US is nothing new, and that all the recent fuss about record temperatures is overblown. It is a compelling figure. The 1930s Dust Bowl really was an extraordinary period of extreme heat in the US, and no amount of correction for changes in measurement techniques over time makes it go away. But the graph is also a case study in why...
Utah’s new solar power and battery storage facility is among the largest in the region.
Open access notables Record-low 2025 and 2026 ice extents restore Arctic winter sea-ice decline , Chan et al., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Recent analyses have suggested that the decadal rate of Arctic winter sea-ice extent decline weakened in the early 2020s, with 20-y trends becoming statistically insignificant. Here we show from more up-to-date observations that the exceptionally low 2025 and 2026 ice extent winters reversed this picture, with sea-ice extent during the growth and peak phases returning to record lows and 20-y decline trends becoming significant again. Further analysis of CMIP6 model analogues shows that the observed 2025 decline was unusual but physically plausible under comparable Arctic warming, and is more consistent with...
The wind shear-battered storm has kept the highest rainfall away from land, but also triggered dangerous heat across the South. The post Tropical Storm Bertha makes its first landfall in southeastern Louisiana appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Learn more about the Arctic bobtail squid and why this new sighting is so important to understanding its ecology.
NASA’s Juno mission has provided the first measurements of the temperature below the surface of Jupiter’s moon Io, revealing significant heating within the shallow subsurface of the most volcanically active world in the solar system. Collected during two close flybys, the data also shows that most of Io’s surface is remarkably smooth and composed of […]
Description Data from the Earth-orbiting U.S.-India NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite’s L-band radar was used to produce an image of Nunatak Zaterjavshijsja — a mountaintop in East Antarctica — poking out amid a stream of ice flowing northeast to the ocean. The obstruction causes stresses in the ice, heavily fracturing the surrounding surfaces with […]
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Jeff Masters As climate change bakes forests across North America, dense smoke from dozens of out-of-control wildfires burning in northern Minnesota and adjacent portions of Ontario is blanketing tens of millions of people with hazardous pollution. The fires are bringing the worst air quality on record to much of the Great Lakes, mid-Atlantic, and Northeast United States. Pollution from small particles called PM2.5 — the fine particles less than 2.5 microns in diameter are the primary air pollution killers — has been far into the “Hazardous” range across five states since Wednesday morning. The award for worst air in the nation on July 16 went to the city that has in the past billed itself as a climate...
Learn more about glacial periods in Yellowstone National Park and how they may be connected with hydrothermal activity.
Your contribution today will be doubled. The post You can save lives this hurricane season appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
This is a re-post from The Climate Brink I’m generally pretty measured in how I discuss climate data. There has been only one time in recent years when I was truly shocked: when global temperatures came in for September 2023 at a full 0.5C warmer than any prior September on record. 1 Once until today, that is. With the July runs now in from 667 ensemble members across 14 different seasonal forecast models, it looks like this year’s El Niño is not only very likely to be the strongest event since reliable records began – it may end up the strongest by a truly mind-blowing margin. The multi-model median for the event’s peak (measured as detrended sea surface temperature anomalies in the Niño 3.4 region of the tropical Pacific) currently...
A tropical storm watch was issued for the western Florida Panhandle on Sunday, July 19, after large but disorganized circulation over the northeast Gulf of Mexico was designated Tropical Depression 2 by the NOAA/NWS National Hurricane Center on Sunday morning. Although it may struggle to approach hurricane strength, TD 2 could develop a core of […] The post TD 2 predicted to strengthen near upper Gulf Coast appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Learn how astronomers confirmed an atmosphere on rocky exoplanet LHS 1140 b, located 48 light-years away in its star’s habitable zone.
National Academies report says the fast-growing field can boost confidence with more rigorous results
Open access notables Renewable energy discourses of fossil fuel companies: obstruction and delay of climate action , Desai et al., Energy Sustainability and Society For decades, multinational fossil fuel companies have strategically promoted discourses to obstruct climate action. Initially, the fossil fuel industry publicized communications that denied the role of fossil fuels in climate destabilization. Recently, however, they have advanced nuanced messages to delay climate action and policy. As the climate crisis worsens and calls to phase out fossil fuels intensify, research into the industry has revealed pervasive “greenwashing” and a discrepancy between external messaging on renewable energy and internal operational positions. Corporate annual reports...
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Bridgett Ennis s the prices of home battery systems fall, they’re becoming a key part of the modern electric grid. They can help homeowners store power from rooftop solar panels or the grid for use during outages or periods of high demand. And they can reduce strain on the grid during heat waves when electricity demand soars. In this interview with Yale Climate Connections, Raghu Belur, the chief products officer for Enphase Energy , explains how home battery systems can lower utility bills and create backup power during grid failures. He also says that batteries, including the batteries in electric vehicles, may one day make it possible for utilities to use power from many small sources to maintain a more reliable grid. ...
Researchers extracted DNA from long-dead animals that lived in South Africa during the last ice age, revealing that genetic material lasts longer in hot climates than was previously thought.
Skeptical Science is partnering with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. You can submit claims you think need checking via the tipline . Are electric vehicles unable to function in extreme heat? Extreme heat can temporarily reduce range, but recent research does not show that EVs are unable to operate in hot weather. Much of the decrease comes from energy diverted to cool the vehicle, not because EV batteries or motors stop functioning. Modern EVs use thermal management systems to keep components within safe operating temperatures. U.S. Department of Energy testing in 2024 found EV range fell on average about 14% at an ambient temperature of 95°F (35°C) compared with mild weather. However, the same proportional decrease...
Sediment eroded from ice-capped mountains splays out across a broad river valley on Russia’s Severny Island.
Sunrise Executive Director Aru Shiney-Ajay discusses why the youth-led organization shifted tactics, how it played out during the Minneapolis ICE surge, and why she thinks fighting authoritarianism and climate change go hand in hand. The post Why the Sunrise Movement reorganized to fight authoritarianism appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
El Niño transforms tropical forests from carbon sinks to sources. 2026 could be the worst year yet.
Temperatures of 35°C or higher have now been recorded in May, June and July of the same year for the first time in the UK weather record, as heatwave conditions continue through the weekend and into next week.
Thirty years after the European Space Agency first demonstrated the power of flying two satellites in very close formation, the concept was recently recreated. By temporarily positioning two Copernicus Sentinel-1 radar satellites to replicate the pioneering ERS-1–ERS-2 ‘tandem mission’, ESA achieved one-day repeat radar imaging of the same Antarctic region.The results once again demonstrate how this approach can be used to measure glacier motion and pinpoint the critical grounding line with exceptional precision.
Open access notables Fossil fuel emissions dominate Northern Hemisphere CO2 seasonal cycle trends under mitigation scenarios , Jin et al., Nature Communications Variations in the atmospheric CO2 seasonal cycle across the Northern Hemisphere have historically been dominated by terrestrial ecosystems, making ground-based observations a reliable proxy for terrestrial carbon dynamics. However, whether this dominance will persist in the future remains uncertain. Here we combine atmospheric transport modeling with factorial simulations to assess and attribute future changes in the CO2 seasonal cycle through 2100. We show that the dominant drivers of these changes shift fundamentally across scenarios. Under the high-emission scenario (SSP5-8.5), strengthening...
Andean leaf-eared mice (Phyllotis vaccarum) live at the highest elevations of any mammal, and they also have the broadest elevational range, from sea level to mountain summits of >6700 meters. Highland populations have evolved an enhanced thermogenic ...
Climate change is supercharging hurricanes, heavy downpours, and wildfires, all of which make landslides more likely. The post The rising risk of landslides appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Learn more about the critical drought that is leaving Lake Powell lower than usual and the impacts that could have on hydropower dams and the people who rely on that water.
Today, most rechargeable batteries are made from lithium ions, but sodium-ion alternatives could make battery tech much cheaper and offer other advantages
Learn how slow-moving mantle waves inside Earth may have lifted Antarctica’s ancient mountains, creating cold highlands where the Antarctic ice sheet could begin forming.
Learn how climate change and changes to public health policy may be behind the increase of flesh-eating bacteria in U.S. coastal waters.
This is a re-post from The Climate Brink by Andrew Dessler I am finalizing a textbook on climate risk and am posting chapters as I finish them. I’d previously posted chapters about embedded energy , physical climate risk , and transition risk . This post is a chapter on attribution of extreme weather to climate change. It is an emerging battleground in the public debate over climate change, so this chapter is an opportunity to get up to speed on the science. Introduction In the aftermath of any major weather disaster, the question inevitably arises: “Did climate change cause this disaster?” However, this is a bad way to think about the problem. Climate change does not cause a rainstorm, a heatwave, or a hurricane in a direct sense. These...
Conditions are expected to be less humid than during June’s heatwave, with lower peak temperatures and fewer exceptionally warm nights.
Researchers recently performed the first scientific test of sea ice thickening in the field, but there remains a big question mark over how scalable this method is.
Learn more about the monitoring equipment installed at Yellowstone National Park and how it can help keep people safe.