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Study Reveals Sharp Rise in Methane Emissions from Earth’s Wetlands
At a Glance Wetlands, Earth’s most prominent natural source of methane, have seen a significant increase in methane…
Sandia Researchers Uncover Alarming Arctic Climate Crisis
At a Glance The Arctic, known as Earth’s icy crown, is facing an unprecedented climate crisis, with temperatures…
A heatwave in Antarctica totally blew the minds of scientists. They set out to decipher it – and here are the results
DM Bergstrom, Author provided Dana M Bergstrom, University of Wollongong Climate scientists don’t like surprises. It means our…
How 2023’s record heat worsened droughts, floods and bushfires around the world
Albert Van Dijk, Australian National University 2023 was a year of record-breaking heat, devastating storms and floods, deepening…
How science saved the ozone layer
Concentration of ozone (in Dobson units) as of mid-September 2022, based on measurements by the IASI infrared sounder…
What Engineers Are Thinking Up to Curb Our Climate Crisis
Scientists, policymakers, and entrepreneurs envision a net zero future where we can store billions of tons of greenhouse…
Why dimming the Sun would be an effective tool in the fight against climate change
Peter Irvine, UCL It’s becoming increasingly clear that we will fail to meet our climate goals. We were…
Climate tipping points are nearer than you think – our new report warns of catastrophic risk
lugazzotti / shutterstock James Dyke, University of Exeter and David Armstrong McKay, Stockholm University It’s now almost inevitable…
Luminous ‘mother-of-pearl’ clouds explain why climate models miss so much Arctic and Antarctic warming
YanaBu, Shutterstock Katrin Meissner, UNSW Sydney; Deepashree Dutta, University of Cambridge, and Martin Jucker, UNSW Sydney Our planet…
A monster eddy current is spinning into existence off the coast of Sydney. Will it bring a new marine heatwave?
Shutterstock Moninya Roughan, UNSW Sydney; Amandine Schaeffer, UNSW Sydney; Junde Li, and Shane Keating, UNSW Sydney Right now,…