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Major Methane Leaks Ongoing in Turkmenistan and Gulf of Mexico
Satellite data shows methane leaks in a fossil fuel field in western Turkmenistan have caused more global heating in 2022 than all of the carbon pollution from the United Kingdom.
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Trump Admin Says 7 Degrees Fahrenheit of Warming Inevitable by 2100
The Trump administration acknowledged the existence of climate change in an environmental impact statement released last month, The Washington Post reported Friday, but then used that acknowledgement to draw a surprising conclusion. The statement, written by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), said that global warming would reach a disastrous seven degrees Fahrenheit (around […]
Taller Arctic Plants Could Speed Dangerous Warming Feedback Loop
Climate change is giving Arctic plants a growth spurt. A study published in Nature Wednesday examined seven key plant characteristics over 30 years of warming at 117 locations in the Arctic or alpine tundra and found that plants were growing taller at all locations studied. The international team of scientists, led by Aarhus University in […]
Climate Change Could Completely Transform Earth’s Ecosystems
Fifty two million years ago, crocodiles swam in the Arctic. Twenty thousand years ago, an ice sheet covered Manhattan. Earth’s ecosystems have changed dramatically as the climate has shifted, and now scientists are trying to determine how they might respond to the current era of human-caused climate change. Forty-two scientists contributed to a study published […]
Scientists Warn We May Be on Track for ‘Hothouse Earth’
In two recent studies, scientists have looked into the future and into the past to see what might happen to the global climate if we fail to curb greenhouse gas emissions in time. The results are frightening. A study published Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences examined how, once a certain threshold […]
State of the Climate Report Confirms Planet Has Entered ‘New Neighborhood’ of Global Temperatures
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released the results of what it calls the “annual checkup for the planet” Wednesday, and the patient is not doing well. The 28th annual State of the Climate report, published by the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society and based on the work of more than 500 scientists […]
California’s Carr Fire Grows Larger and More Deadly
The Carr Fire, which blazed into the northern California town of Redding Thursday, has grown even larger and deadlier over the weekend, offering a fiery vision of California’s future. “This is climate change, for real and in real time. We were warned that the atmospheric buildup of man-made greenhouse gas would eventually be an existential […]
Higher Temperatures Linked to Increase in Suicides
As a summer of record high temperatures continues, a sobering new study suggests that more summers like this could have serious mental health consequences. The study, published in Nature Climate Change Monday, found that, for every one degree Celsius increase in average monthly temperature, suicide rates go up by 0.7 percent in U.S. counties and […]
The Arctic Is Burning: Wildfires Rage from Sweden to Alaska
There are currently 11 wildfires blazing in the Arctic circle, The Guardian reported Wednesday. While fires are also raging in Russia, Norway and Finland, Sweden has seen the most extensive Arctic fires, which have forced four communities to evacuate, according to The Guardian. Two Italian water-bombing planes that answered Sweden’s call for help will begin […]