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Mohammed Azhar of Tufts University, Manoochehr Shirzaei of Virginia Tech and colleagues have measured how fast the ground is sinking along the coasts of the United States, and report that 71.5% of…
An open-access study published Sept. 22 in Geophysical Research Letters reports that greenhouse gases released since the 2015 UN Paris Agreement have already made Europe's summer heat extremes more…
Wash a fleece jacket and a little of it leaves with the water. The plastic threads that come off are too small to notice, and they head down a drain, through a treatment plant and eventually out to…
Antarctic penguin colonies give off methane, and Spanish researchers have now put a number on how much. Chinstrap penguin colonies across the continent emit an estimated 0.49 ± 0.16 teragrams of the…
A study published Sept. 21, 2026, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that evolution does not prevent the black-browed albatross from declining under projected climate…
Building the power plants and grids that China would need to meet stricter climate targets releases more carbon dioxide during construction than a business-as-usual expansion would, according to a…
Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences put China's wind power potential at 7.62 to 14.06 terawatts once the land a build-out would occupy is taken into account. The range comes from a study…
Somewhere under Antarctica there is a line where the ice stops resting on rock and begins to float. It is not a tidy line. Twice a day the tide lifts the ice a little and the sea works its way in…
A 39-day experiment in the German North Sea has measured how much alkaline material seawater can take before a spring plankton bloom runs late. Juliane Tammen of GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean…
The Planetary Boundaries Science Lab at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research published its Planetary Health Check 2026 on Sept. 21, reporting that seven of the nine planetary boundaries…
The hardest hours for a grid that runs on weather are not the still ones, and not the overcast ones. They are the hours that are both at once, and the worst of those arrive sharply rather than…
Europeans born in 2025 are projected to spend 3.2 more years of their lives under extreme fire weather than those born in 1950, an increase of 84%, if the world stays on its current climate policies.…