Climate

2025 Kicks Off With Warmest January on Record

2025 Kicks Off With Warmest January on Record

January 2025 was the warmest January on record, according to data from the EU Copernicus Climate Change Service. The data has surprised scientists, who predicted that this January would be at least slightly cooler on average than January 2024 now that the El Niño weather pattern has ended and the cooling La Niña weather pattern […]

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    USDA and Forest Service Ordered to Remove Climate Change References From Websites

    USDA and Forest Service Ordered to Remove Climate Change References From Websites

    According to internal guidelines obtained and reviewed by various sources including Politico, The Hill and The Guardian, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has begun removing references to climate change on its webpages and sites, including the U.S. Forest Service website. As The Guardian reported, the internal memo stated that the department must “identify and […]

    9% of England’s Farmland Needs to Be Converted Into Wildlife Habitats and Forests: UK Government Land Use Blueprint

    9% of England’s Farmland Needs to Be Converted Into Wildlife Habitats and Forests: UK Government Land Use Blueprint

    Roughly nine percent of England’s farmland needs to be converted into habitats for wildlife and forest by 2050 in order to meet the country’s nature and net-zero goals, according to a consultation launched by Steve Reed, the United Kingdom’s environment secretary. Reed announced on Friday the government’s plans for land use changes intended to balance […]

    Genetic Diversity of Two-Thirds of Plant, Animal and Fungi Species Studied Is Declining, but Conservation Efforts Offer ‘Glimmers of Hope’

    Genetic Diversity of Two-Thirds of Plant, Animal and Fungi Species Studied Is Declining, but Conservation Efforts Offer ‘Glimmers of Hope’

    The most comprehensive worldwide analysis of wildlife genetic diversity ever undertaken has found that it is plummeting at an astonishing rate, but that conservation efforts can help protect species. Two-thirds of the populations studied were declining in genetic diversity. However, the researchers found that conservation was sustaining — and even increasing, in some cases — […]

    Amazon Deforestation Is Down, but Degradation Spiked Nearly 500% in 2024

    Amazon Deforestation Is Down, but Degradation Spiked Nearly 500% in 2024

    A recent analysis of the Amazon Rainforest has revealed that while deforestation declined in 2024, the level of degradation from factors like wildfires and logging increased 497% in the same time period. According to Amazon Institute of People and the Environment (Imazon), a nonprofit and research institute based in Brazil, deforestation, or the complete clearing […]

    People Who Get Most of Their News From Social Media Sources Are More Likely to Think Climate Change Is a Conspiracy: Study

    People Who Get Most of Their News From Social Media Sources Are More Likely to Think Climate Change Is a Conspiracy: Study

    With so many media sources these days — commercial television, social media, old-fashioned newspapers — some are bound to be more reliable in terms of accuracy than others. Researchers have found that people who believe climate change is a conspiracy get most of their news and information about current events from social and commercial media […]