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Canada is witnessing more thunderstorms than ever before
Severe thunderstorms occur in Canada every year, bringing with them large hail, damaging downburst winds, intense rainfall and…
Warming oceans may force New Zealand’s sperm and blue whales to shift to cooler southern waters
Frédérik Saltré, Flinders University; Karen A Stockin, Massey University, and Katharina J. Peters, University of Canterbury The world’s…
The Thwaites Glacier Poses a Threat to Coastal Cities Should It Collapse. Who’s At RIsk?
The Antarctic glacier called Thwaites Glacier is nicknamed the “Doomsday Glacier” for a reason: should it collapse, it…
What could we do to cool the Arctic, specifically?
titoOnz / shutterstock / NASA Shaun Fitzgerald, University of Cambridge and Hugh Hunt, University of Cambridge The Arctic…
What is a flash flood? A civil engineer explains
A bridge and road submerged by floodwaters from the North Fork of the Kentucky River in Jackson, Kentucky,…
New research reveals that wildfires can influence El Niño
Apostolos Voulgarakis, Technical University of Crete and Matthew Kasoar, Imperial College London Wildfire is a phenomenon that has…
How likely would Britain’s 40°C heatwave have been without climate change?
A member of the Coldstream Guards succumbs to the heat, June 2022. Lois GoBe/Shutterstock Ben Clarke, University of…
Monarch butterflies join the Red List of endangered species, thanks to habitat loss, climate change and pesticides
Monarch butterflies cluster on a eucalyptus tree at Pismo State Beach’s Monarch Butterfly Grove in California. Ruby Wallau/Getty…
How forests lost 8,000 years of stored carbon in a few generations – animated maps reveal climate lessons for tree-planting projects today
Trees like these near Traverse City, Michigan, remove carbon dioxide from the air and lock it away. Owen…
Heatwave: why extreme weather forecasts have improved so much
Neil Hall/EPA Rob Thompson, University of Reading The UK has recorded its hottest ever temperature, passing 40℃ for…