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The UK Met Office published a long-range forecast on Aug. 21 showing central tropical Pacific sea-surface temperatures rising more than 3 °C in the coming months, a signal its head of long-range…
At the bottom of the world, on the islands of the Fuegian Archipelago, a rodent from another hemisphere has been reshaping the forest for the better part of a century. The North American beaver was…
The carbon that Amazon forests take in and the water they give off have been moving further out of step for four decades, an analysis of 40 years of satellite data published Aug. 22 in Nature…
Cocoa expanding onto land that was already farmed in Ghana is associated with food crops being pushed into nearby protected forest reserves, and with more forest cleared inside those reserves,…
Fragments of PVC, nylon, and PET ground down to environmental sizes increased the death rate of human neutrophils in cell culture, and different plastics pushed the cells toward different ways of…
Averages are reassuring, and that is exactly the problem. When people talk about rain getting heavier in a warming world, the mental image is usually a whole distribution nudging up a notch:…
Two hundred and fifty-two million years ago, the oceans nearly emptied. The Permian-Triassic extinction (geologists call it the Great Dying, and the name is not hyperbole) erased something like 96…
The two-year slowdown in Antarctica's ice loss that began in 2021 was driven by an atmospheric link to unusually persistent warmth in a tropical patch of ocean known as the warm pool, not by the…
A team led by Ohio State University's Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center has published a 2,000-year record of atmospheric methane extracted from ice drilled on a tropical mountain in Peru.…
Charred carbon washed into fresh water after a wildfire drives sulfur chemistry in sunlight, according to laboratory experiments published Aug. 19 in Communications Earth & Environment by researchers…
Intense storms crossing the edge of the world's sea ice push the ice's yearly growth and melt further in both directions, and on balance they raise the global annual mean sea-ice area by 13%, Claire…
A modeling study projects that the area burning in Europe each year would rise by about 39% under low emissions and by nearly 192% under high emissions late this century, driven by intensified fire…