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The layer of soil that thaws each summer above permafrost has been getting deeper at most long-running monitoring sites since 2000, according to a study published Aug. 26th of this year in…
A reconstruction of tropical Indian and Pacific Ocean climate back to the early 1600s finds the two basins moved largely in step until a run of volcanic eruptions in the early 19th century disrupted…
A synthesis of natural volcanic watersheds published Aug. 26, 2026, in Nature finds that the dissolved chemistry carrying a carbon-removal benefit downstream is partly lost between the soil and the…
Left alone, pure water is remarkably reluctant to freeze. A clean droplet can be chilled to about −38 °C before it turns to ice by itself. Clouds do not wait that long, because the air is full of…
The Ross and Filchner-Ronne ice shelves are the two largest floating slabs of ice on the planet, and by the usual reading they are the least troubled. Their summers are cold, their surfaces stay…
Plant compounds promoted as a way to cut nitrous oxide emissions from farmland also suppressed the soil bacteria that consume methane, researchers at Kansas State University report in a study…
Coatings that build up on soot particles in the air raise black carbon's warming effect from 0.20 watts per square meter, plus or minus 0.25, to 0.30 watts per square meter, plus or minus 0.42,…
A study published Aug. 25 in Communications Earth & Environment attributes 40% to 64% of the climate-driven decline in western US water supply to emissions from 122 fossil fuel and cement producers,…
The coral reef at Bar Al Hikman in Oman has been losing area continuously since the mid-1980s rather than in pulses driven by storms, according to a 40-year satellite reconstruction published Aug. 25…
Over the Arabian Peninsula, the haze that dims the sky is often not smog in the familiar sense. It is dust, lifted off deserts and carried on the wind, and it is one of the harsher air-quality…
El Nino is famously a creature of the calendar. It flares roughly every two to seven years, tips global weather off its usual paths for a season or two, and fades. Ask what it does to the world's…
Take every stretch of open ocean outside the polar seas, average the surface temperature across all of it, and the number you get has a season of its own. It is not the season most people live in. It…