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Study Warns of “Short Pulses” of Rapid Ice Sheet Retreat In Response to Climate Warming
According to an international study published in Nature, ice sheets can retreat up to 600 m per day…
Antarctic Deep Ocean Circulation at Risk of Collapse, Warn Scientists
Scientists have warned that the deep ocean circulation around Antarctica could be at risk of collapse, severely impacting…
A shortage of native seeds is slowing land restoration across the US, which is crucial for tackling climate change and extinctions
Planting native plant seeds on sand dunes at Westward Beach in Malibu, Calif., to stabilize the dunes. Al…
Cyclone Freddy was the most energetic storm on record. Is it a harbinger of things to come?
NOAA / AP Thomas Mortlock, UNSW Sydney On February 4, a storm off the north-west coast of Australia…
Climate change is fuelling the rise of superbugs. What can we do to save ourselves?
Branwen Morgan, CSIRO The next time you need to take antibiotics, they may not work. So you may…
Can clouds of Moon dust combat climate change?
NASA Advanced Concepts Laboratory Aaron Tang, Australian National University A group of US scientists this week proposed an…
Was Earth already heating up, or did global warming reverse a long-term cooling trend?
Natural records suggest a cooling trend was underway thousands of years ago. DeAgostini/Getty Images Ellie Broadman, University of…
Atmospheric rivers are hitting the Arctic more often, and increasingly melting its sea ice
Rain and warm air make it harder for sea ice to grow. Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via…
‘Blue marble’: how half a century of climate change has altered the face of the Earth
Robert Poole, University of Central Lancashire; Nick Pepin, University of Portsmouth, and Oliver Gruner, University of Portsmouth In…
Climate change trauma has real impacts on cognition and the brain, wildfire survivors study shows
The 2018 Camp Fire killed 85 people and destroyed 20,000 buildings in and around Paradise, Calif. Marcus Yam…