Global Warming News
May 21, 2025
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May 21, 2025 — Researchers look to extremes in the past to study how the system reacts to imbalances. They detail an overlooked mechanism for how the ocean can help stabilize massive releases of carbon into the atmosphere following volcanic ...
May 20, 2025 — Increasing renewable energy may not reduce the use of fossil fuels in the United States, according to a new study ...
May 20, 2025 — The Arctic is one of the coldest places on Earth, but in recent decades, the region has been rapidly warming, at a rate three to four times faster than the global average. However, current climate ...
May 20, 2025 — Encouraging people in North America and Sub-Saharan Africa to adopt a low-carbon lifestyle could help to cut global household emissions of planet-warming carbon dioxide by up to two-fifths, a new study ...
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May 19, 2025 — The average energy project costs 40% more than expected for construction and takes almost two years longer than planned, finds a new global study. ...
May 19, 2025 — People have assumed climate change solutions that sequester carbon from the air into soils will also benefit crop yields. But a new study finds that most regenerative farming practices to build soil ...
May 19, 2025 — The near-bottom water on the U.S. Northeast continental shelf provides a critical cold-water habitat for the rich regional marine ecosystem. This 'cold pool' preserves winter temperatures, even when ...
May 20, 2025 — A novel analysis suggests more than 3,500 animal species are threatened by climate change and also sheds light on huge gaps in fully understanding the risk to the animal ...
May 19, 2025 — A new AI decision making tool effectively balances various complex trade-offs to recommend ways of maximizing carbon storage, minimizing economic disruptions and helping improve the environment and ...
May 19, 2025 — New research reveals mountain glaciers across the globe will not recover for centuries -- even if human intervention cools the planet back to the 1.5 ...
May 16, 2025 — A new study reveals that heat-tolerant symbiotic algae may be essential to saving elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata) -- a foundational species in ...
May 16, 2025 — New research suggests that the negative effects of the ozone hole on the carbon uptake of the Southern Ocean are reversible, but only if greenhouse ...
May 15, 2025 — The Amazon rainforest may be able to survive long-term drought caused by climate change, but adjusting to a drier, warmer world would exact a heavy toll, a study ...
May 15, 2025 — A team has created the most complete map of the world's rivers ever made offering a major leap forward for flood prediction, climate risk planning, and water resource management in a warming world. ...
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May 16, 2025 — How sensitively does organic carbon stored in soils react to changes in temperature and ...
May 16, 2025 — New research from an international group looking at ancient sediment cores in the North Atlantic has for the first time shown a strong correlation between sediment changes and a marked period of ...
May 15, 2025 — The latest study finds that emissions of the potent greenhouse gas might be higher than previously ...
May 15, 2025 — When trees and soil fungi form close associations with each other, both partners benefit. Many tree species have further enhanced this cooperation by forming a concurrent symbiosis with two different ...
May 14, 2025 — A new study found that over a quarter of the world's naturalized plant species are threatened in parts of their native range -- raising questions about the role non-native populations may play ...
May 14, 2025 — The increasing frequency of once-in-a-decade agricultural and ecological drought has underscored the urgency of studying hydrological changes. A research team has analyzed the estimated changes in ...
May 14, 2025 — A new study finds that with bold and coordinated policy choices -- across emissions, diets, food waste, and water and nitrogen efficiency -- humanity could, by 2050, bring global environmental ...
May 14, 2025 — The impacts of human activity and climate change are coalescing to make coastal lagoons saltier, changing the microbial life they support and the function they play in their ecosystems, according to ...
May 13, 2025 — Researchers have detailed the geological ingredients required to find clean sources of natural hydrogen beneath our feet. The work details the requirements for natural hydrogen, produced by the Earth ...
May 12, 2025 — Current methods of capturing and releasing carbon are expensive and so energy-intensive they often require, counterproductively, the use of fossil fuels. Taking inspiration from plants, researchers ...
May 9, 2025 — Antarctic krill do not only react to external environmental influences such as light or food. They also use their internal clock to adapt to the extreme conditions of the polar ...
May 8, 2025 — A long period of drought in North America has been recognized by scientists for decades. A new study links the severe climate to a change in Earth's ...
May 8, 2025 — Global emissions of carbon dioxide from industry can be reduced by five per cent. But that requires companies and policy makers to take a holistic approach to energy efficiency and energy management ...
May 8, 2025 — A glacier in Antarctica is committing 'ice piracy' -- stealing ice from a neighbor -- in a phenomenon that has never been observed in such a short time frame, say ...
May 7, 2025 — Scientists say human-caused climate change led to 15,000 additional early deaths from wildfire air pollution in the continental United States during the 15-year period ending in ...
May 7, 2025 — Wealthy individuals have a higher carbon footprint. A new study quantifies the climate outcomes of these inequalities. It finds that the world's wealthiest 10% are responsible for two thirds of ...
May 7, 2025 — In a sweeping new study of more than 13,000 urban areas worldwide, researchers have mapped air pollution levels and carbon dioxide emissions, providing comprehensive global analysis of urban ...
May 7, 2025 — Across the globe, monsoon rainfall switches on in spring and off in autumn. Until now, this seasonal pattern was primarily understood as an immediate response to changes in solar radiation. A new ...
May 7, 2025 — Climate scientists reveal that millions of today's young people will live through unprecedented lifetime exposure to heatwaves, crop failures, river floods, droughts, wildfires and tropical ...
May 6, 2025 — A new study reveals how climate change has altered growing conditions for the world's five major crops over the past half century and is reshaping agriculture. The impacts corroborate climate ...
Friday, May 16, 2025
- Rising Temperatures Lead to Unexpectedly Rapid Carbon Release from Soils
- Ancient Ocean Sediments Link Changes in Currents to Cooling of Northern Hemisphere 3.6 Million Years Ago
Thursday, May 15, 2025
- A Vicious Cycle: How Methane Emissions from Warming Wetlands Could Exacerbate Climate Change
- Dual Associations With Two Fungi Improve Tree Fitness
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
- Should We Protect Non-Native Species? A New Study Says Maybe
- Sharp Depletion in Soil Moisture Drives Land Water to Flow Into Oceans, Contributing to Sea Level Rise
- New Global Model Shows How to Bring Environmental Pressures Back to 2015 Levels by 2050
- Climate Change Is Turning Coastal Lagoons Into 'salty Soup'
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
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Friday, May 9, 2025
Thursday, May 8, 2025
- Waxing and Waning Prairie: New Study Unravels Causes of Ancient Climate Changes
- How to Reduce Global CO2 Emissions from Industry
- Satellites Observe Glacier Committing 'ice Piracy'
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
- Warming Climate Making Fine Particulate Matter from Wildfires More Deadly and Expensive
- The World's Wealthiest 10% Caused Two Thirds of Global Warming Since 1990
- New Study Tracks Air Pollution and CO2 Emissions Across Thousands of Cities Worldwide
- The Atmospheric Memory That Feeds Billions of People: Newly Discovered Mechanism for Monsoon Rainfall
- Climate Change: Future of Today's Young People
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
- Heat and Drought Are Quietly Hurting Crop Yields
- 2024 Sea Level 'report Cards' Map Futures of US Coastal Communities
- Cutting Greenhouse Gases Will Reduce Number of Deaths from Poor Air Quality
Monday, May 5, 2025
- Biological Particles May Be Crucial for Inducing Heavy Rain
- Artificial Oxygen Supply in Coastal Waters: A Hope With Risks
Friday, May 2, 2025
Thursday, May 1, 2025
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
- International Experts Lead Calls to Embed Nature in City Infrastructure for Better Health and Climate Resilience
- In Two Decades Increasing Urban Vegetation Could Have Saved Over 1.1 Million Lives
- 'Scratching' More Than the Ocean's Surface to Map Global Microplastic Movement
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
- Rainfall Triggers Extreme Humid Heat in Tropics and Subtropics
- Greasing the Wheels of the Energy Transition to Address Climate Change and Fossil Fuels Phase out
Monday, April 28, 2025
- Extreme Monsoon Changes Threaten the Bay of Bengal's Role as a Critical Food Source
- Geoengineering Technique Could Cool Planet Using Existing Aircraft
- Climate Change Increases the Risk of Simultaneous Wildfires
- Flood Risk Increasing in Pacific Northwest
- Chip-Shop Fish Among Key Seabed Engineers
Friday, April 25, 2025
Thursday, April 24, 2025
- How to Break Through Climate Apathy
- Controlling Starch Levels in Algae Could Have Biotechnology and Sustainability Benefits
- Trawling-Induced Sediment Resuspension Reduces CO2 Uptake
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
- Hotter Temps Trigger Wetlands to Emit More Methane as Microbes Struggle to Keep Up
- World on Course to Trigger Multiple Climate 'tipping Points' Unless Action Accelerates
- Why Are Patagonian Glaciers Rapidly Losing Mass?
- Scientific Path to Recouping the Costs of Climate Change
- Melting Glaciers at the End of the Ice Age May Have Sped Up Continental Drift, Fueled Volcanic Eruptions
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Monday, April 21, 2025
- Coastal Management Model Plays the Long Game Against the Rising Tides
- Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
- Colombia's Peatlands Could Be a Crucial Tool to Fight Climate Change: But First We Have to Find Them
Monday, April 14, 2025
- Pioneering Research Reveals Arctic Matter Pathways Poised for Major Shifts Amidst Climate Change
- Sophisticated Pyrotechnology in the Ice Age: This Is How Humans Made Fire Tens of Thousands of Years Ago
Friday, April 11, 2025
Thursday, April 10, 2025
- New Study on Natural Oil Seeps in the Deep Sea
- Caspian Sea Decline Threatens Endangered Seals, Coastal Communities and Industry
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
- European Bird Declines Linked to Range of Climatic Conditions Experienced
- Coral Reefs Exude Myriad Chemicals, Fueling Dynamic Microbial Recycling of Nutrients
- Europe's Population Is Adapting Better to Cold Than to Heat
- With New Database Researchers May Be Able to Predict Rare Milky Seas Bioluminescent, Glowing Event
- 8 Million Years of 'Green Arabia'
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
- Restoration Programs Won’t Save Coral Reefs
- Long-Term Health Impacts of Flooding Revealed
- Role of Social Workers in Addressing Marginalized Communities Bearing Brunt of Climate Disasters
Friday, April 4, 2025
Thursday, April 3, 2025
- Climate Change and Prehistoric Human Populations: Eastward Shift of Settlement Areas at the End of the Last Ice Age
- Carbon Capture Technology to Produce Clean Fuel from Air
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Monday, March 31, 2025
- New Warnings of a 'Butterfly Effect' -- In Reverse
- Thinner Arctic Sea Ice May Affect Global Ocean Circulation
Friday, March 28, 2025
Thursday, March 27, 2025
- Melting Ice, More Rain Drive Southern Ocean Cooling
- Losing Forest Carbon Stocks Could Put Climate Goals out of Reach
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
- Ocean Eddies -- The Food Trucks of the Sea
- Refining Siberia's Land Cover Data: A Leap Forward for Climate Science
Monday, March 24, 2025
- 5,700-Year Storm Archive Shows Rise in Tropical Storms and Hurricanes in the Caribbean
- How Extreme Weather Threatens Nature's Essential Services
Thursday, March 20, 2025
- Shrinking Andean Glaciers Threaten Water Supply of 90 Million People, Global Policy Makers Warn
- Aotearoa Once Home to Elephant Seals
- Weather Emergencies Affect Older Adults' Views on Climate and Health
- Peatlands' Potential to Capture Carbon Upgraded as Temperatures Rise
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
- Marine Animals Help Solve Ocean Issues
- New Carbon-Negative Material Could Make Concrete and Cement More Sustainable
- Good Sphagnum Moss Layer Growth Improves Carbon Sequestration in Restored Peatlands
- Sulfur Bacteria Team Up to Break Down Substances in the Seabed
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
- Climate Change Fuelling Mental Health Crisis in Areas Most Affected by Climate Crisis
- Eco-Friendly Method to Efficiently Convert Methane to Ethanol
Monday, March 17, 2025
- Global Warming Can Lead to Inflammation in Human Airways, New Research Shows
- Without Oxygen: How Primordial Microbes Breathed
Thursday, March 13, 2025
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Tuesday, March 11, 2025
- Earth's 'dirty Mirror' Effect Is Accelerating Climate Change
- Arctic Sea Ice Loss Drives Drier Weather Over California and Wetter Over Spain and Portugal
Monday, March 10, 2025
- Are Volcanoes Behind the Oxygen We Breathe?
- Climate Change Will Reduce the Number of Satellites That Can Safely Orbit in Space
Friday, March 7, 2025
- Earth's Orbital Rhythms Link Timing of Giant Eruptions and Climate Change
- The Unforseen Effects of Melting Glaciers on Arctic Coastal Ecosystems