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A bumblebee working a city park on a hot afternoon is not dealing with one problem at a time. The air can carry ozone, a gas that forms when sunlight works on traffic exhaust. The flowers, the water…
Set fire to a peatland and the flames are the least of it. Below the surface, in ground built from plant matter that never fully rotted, the burning keeps going slowly and without flame. It works…
When comparable methods and datasets are used, climate attribution results hold up across different choices of how an extreme-weather event is defined. A new synthesis of published studies finds that…
A new study reports that the amount of dust suspended in Earth's atmosphere fell by roughly 10% between 2003 and 2023, and that the decline has made a modest contribution to the warming observed over…
Net zero is usually drawn as a finish line. Emissions come down, the line touches zero, and the graph of global temperature flattens out. What that picture leaves out is that the world never warmed…
Human-caused climate change had added about 1.5 °C to July and August temperatures at the Himalayan slope that gave way on Aug. 26, 2026, the World Weather Attribution network reported on Sept. 17.…
A study published Sept. 16 in Nature Climate Change puts the cost of heat that slows workers down at roughly $41 for every ton of carbon dioxide emitted in 2025, a loss the authors say has been…
The World Meteorological Organization reported Sept. 17 that 2025 was one of the driest years for the world's rivers in more than three decades, in the agency's annual assessment of the global water…
A robot submersible recorded 29 pieces of litter on the floor of the Mar del Plata Submarine Canyon off Argentina, between 1,120 and 3,820 meters down. The survey was published Sept. 16 in PLOS One,…
China's national clean-air program is linked to better weight outcomes in young children, according to a study published Sept. 15, 2026 in Communications Earth & Environment. Counties covered by the…
Irrigation on US farmland keeps far more greenhouse gas out of the atmosphere than it puts in, a study published Sept. 14 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences estimates, because the…
How much ice Greenland and Antarctica have lost is not one measurement. It is dozens. One group weighs the ice from orbit, with satellites that sense small changes in the pull of Earth's gravity.…