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70 years of data show extreme heat is already wiping out tropical bird populations
DeAgostini/Getty Images James Watson, The University of Queensland; Maximilian Kotz, Barcelona Supercomputing Center-Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS), and…
Sinking land costs California homeowners $1.87B
A new study quantifies the impact of land subsidence caused by groundwater overuse in California's Central Valley, resulting in a decline in local housing values of nearly $2 billion.
Why on Earth is the planet’s day getting shorter?
Quality Stock Arts/Shutterstock James O’Donoghue, University of Reading Earth will complete a rotation 1.33 milliseconds earlier than usual…
Cave reveals 75,000-year-old Arctic world in Norway
A 75,000-year-old animal community discovered in a Norwegian cave reveals how ancient Arctic species responded to and ultimately failed to survive dramatic climate shifts.
Safe no more: off-the-charts marine heat has severely damaged Ningaloo and other pristine coral reefs
Safe no more: off-the-charts marine heat has severely damaged Ningaloo and other pristine coral reefs James Paton Gilmour, Australian…
Wolves carry pups miles to follow migrating elk herds
Challenging long-held beliefs, a new study reveals gray wolves in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem will migrate long distances with their young pups to hunt migrating elk.
56 million years ago, Earth underwent rapid global warming. Here’s what it did to pollinators
Vera Korasidis, The University of Melbourne and Scott L. Wing, Smithsonian Institution Pollinators play a vital role in…
Experiencing extreme weather and disasters is not enough to change views on climate action, study shows
STR / AFP via Getty Images Omid Ghasemi, UNSW Sydney Climate change has made extreme weather events such…
Study confirms slowing circulation is cooling the North Atlantic
New research confirms that the mysterious "warming hole" in the North Atlantic is caused by a long-term slowdown of the ocean's critical conveyor-belt-like circulation system, a finding with significant implications for global climate.
Earth is trapping much more heat than climate models forecast – and the rate has doubled in 20 years
NASA, CC BY-NC-ND Steven Sherwood, UNSW Sydney; Benoit Meyssignac, Université de Toulouse, and Thorsten Mauritsen, Stockholm University How…