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Rising sea levels may threaten 70% of Africa’s heritage sites by 2050
Among the most exposed cultural sites are the iconic ruins of Tipasa in Algeria. Shutterstock Joanne Clarke, University…
Mass starvation, extinctions, disasters: the new IPCC report’s grim predictions, and why adaptation efforts are falling behind
Mark Howden, Australian National University; Joy Pereira, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (National University of Malaysia), and Roberto Sánchez, Colegio…
Glacial Lakes Are Accelerating Our Planet’s Permanent Ice Loss, Study Reveals
Deleterious climate change is bound to spell trouble for communities living near coastlines, as rising global temperatures are…
Methane in the atmosphere is at an all-time high – here’s what it means for climate change
Sunrise over a bog in Eastern Europe. Adamikarl/Shutterstock Euan Nisbet, Royal Holloway University of London Methane recently reached…
A 1.5-°C Rise In Earth’s Temperature Could Spell Doom For Our Coral Reefs
According to the United Nations Environment Programme, all the coral reefs the world over support as much as…
Svalbard’s Glaciers Are Expected to Lose Roughly Twice as Much Ice by 2100
As the worst effects of human impact on the climate worsen, we expect to see more and more…
2021 Was the Sixth Hottest Year on Record, Warns Scientists
As the largest polluters in the world continue to damage the environment, we residents now feel its deleterious…
Greenhouse Gas Emissions May Be Coming From the Siberian Permafrost
Part of our efforts towards curbing the deleterious effects of climate change is the reduction of the very…
The Earth Is Losing So Much Ice That The Crust Beneath It Is Warping
It is unfortunate that one of the most ubiquitous issues of our time is human-induced climate change. The…
Iceland Launched the World’s Largest Direct Air Capture Plant
Experts across different fields across all continents are hard at work generating solutions to help us fight back…