Global Warming News
April 30, 2025
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Apr. 30, 2025 — An international team of scientists has moved beyond just 'scratching the surface,' to understand how microplastics move through and impact the global ocean. For the first time, scientists have ...
Apr. 29, 2025 — Scientists believe they have found a way to improve warning systems for vulnerable communities threatened by humid heatwaves, which are on the rise due to climate change and can be damaging and even fatal to human health. The study analysed how ...
Apr. 28, 2025 — A technique to cool the planet, in which particles are added to the atmosphere to reflect sunlight, would not require developing special aircraft but could be achieved using existing large planes, according to a new modelling ...
Apr. 28, 2025 — Climate change is increasing the risk of wildfires in many regions of the world. This is due partly to specific weather conditions -- known as fire weather -- that facilitate the spread of wildfires. Researchers have found that fire weather seasons ...
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Apr. 25, 2025 — A new study has found worrying signs that climate change may be undermining the capacity of Arctic fjords to serve as effective carbon sinks. The ...
Apr. 24, 2025 — High-starch algae are important in biofuel production, as a feed supplement in agriculture and as an efficient way to bind carbon dioxide. ...
Apr. 24, 2025 — When bottom trawls are dragged across the seafloor, they stir up sediments. This not only releases previously stored organic carbon, but also intensifies the oxidation of pyrite, a mineral present in ...
Apr. 24, 2025 — A new study finds that presenting the same continuous climate data, such as incremental changes in temperature, in binary form -- such as whether a lake did or did not freeze in the winter -- ...
Apr. 23, 2025 — In the soils of Earth's wetlands, microbes are in a tug-of-war to produce and consume the powerful greenhouse gas methane. But if the Earth gets too ...
Apr. 23, 2025 — Scientists believe that the motion of Earth's continents through plate tectonics has been largely steady over millions of years. New research, ...
Apr. 23, 2025 — A new study lays out a scientific framework for holding individual fossil fuel companies liable for the costs of climate change by tracing specific damages back to their emissions. The researchers ...
Apr. 23, 2025 — Multiple climate 'tipping points' are likely to be triggered if global policies stay on their current course, new research ...
Apr. 23, 2025 — Over the past two decades, satellite-based planetary observations have recorded rapid mass loss of Patagonian glaciers, contributing approximately 0.07 mm per year to global sea-level rise. A study ...
Apr. 22, 2025 — Telemedicine use in 2023 reduced monthly carbon dioxide emissions by the equivalent of up to 130,000 gas operated vehicles or recycling up to 4 ...
Earlier Headlines
Apr. 21, 2025 — To protect against rising sea levels in a warming world, coastal cities typically follow a standard playbook with various protective infrastructure options. For example, a seawall could be designed ...
Apr. 21, 2025 — Farmers apply nitrogen fertilizers to crops to boost yields, feeding more people and livestock. But when there's more fertilizer than the crop can take up, some of the excess can be converted ...
Apr. 16, 2025 — By the 2060s, some airports with shorter runways may need to reduce their maximum take-off weight by the equivalent of approximately 10 passengers per flight during summer ...
Colombia's Peatlands Could Be a Crucial Tool to Fight Climate Change: But First We Have to Find Them
Apr. 15, 2025 — Researchers conducted three years of extensive fieldwork to develop the first data-driven map of both newly documented and predicted peatlands across Colombia's eastern ...
Apr. 14, 2025 — A new study has shed unprecedented light on the highly variable and climate-sensitive routes that substances from Siberian rivers use to travel across the Arctic Ocean. The findings raise fresh ...
Apr. 14, 2025 — Whether for cooking, heating, as a light source or for making tools -- it is assumed that fire was essential for the survival of people in the Ice Age. However, it is puzzling that hardly any ...
Apr. 11, 2025 — For the highly populated coastal country of Bangladesh, once-in-a-century storm tides could strike every 10 years -- or more often -- by the end of the century, scientists ...
Apr. 10, 2025 — What is the role of dissolved organic matter in the deep sea? In a study relating to this question, researchers have investigated the composition of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in detail. Their ...
Apr. 10, 2025 — Urgent action is needed to protect endangered species, human health and industry from the impacts of the Caspian Sea shrinking, research has ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — New research suggests conservation efforts could more effectively identify and protect bird species at greatest risk from climate change by better understanding the range of specific conditions they ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — New research revealed the remarkable chemical diversity of substances exuded by coral reefs and demonstrated that thousands of different chemicals derived from tropical corals and seaweeds are ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — A study has shown that Europe has adapted better to low temperatures than to high temperatures over the last two decades. The relative risk of mortality at the coldest temperatures has decreased by ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — Milky seas are a rare bioluminescent phenomenon where vast areas of the ocean glow at night, sometimes for months. This glow, likely caused by Vibrio harveyi bacteria, has been reported by sailors ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — A new study reveals the modern arid desert between Africa and Saudi Arabia was once regularly lush and green with rivers and lakes over a period of 8 million years, allowing for the occupation and ...
Apr. 8, 2025 — As coral bleaching and deaths become more widespread globally, experts show that over a third of restoration projects fail and might never be scalable enough to have positive effects on reef ...
Apr. 8, 2025 — A comprehensive study of the long-term health impacts of flooding -- via analysis of over 300 million hospitalizations records in eight countries prone to flooding events -- has found an increased ...
Apr. 8, 2025 — A researcher spent a year living in a jjokbang-chon, an extremely impoverished neighborhood in Seoul, South Korea. While there, he calculated residents' carbon footprints, finding they ...
Apr. 4, 2025 — Rivers, streams, lakes, and reservoirs aren't just scenic parts of our landscape -- they're also vital engines for life on Earth. These inland waters 'breathe' oxygen, just like ...
Apr. 3, 2025 — An archaeological study of human settlement during the Final Palaeolithic revealed that populations in Europe did not decrease homogenously during the last cold phase of the Ice Age. Significant ...
Apr. 3, 2025 — A unique carbon capture technology could offer a more cost-effective way to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air and turn it into clean, synthetic ...
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
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
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
Thursday, March 6, 2025
- Researchers Reveal Nitrogen's Dominant Role in Global Organic Aerosol Absorption
- Climate Change Threatens Future of Banana Export Industry
- Adaptability of Some Coral Reef Fish to Rising Temperatures
- Plants Struggled for Millions of Years After the World's Worst Climate Catastrophe
- Tracking Polar Bears During Their Most Secretive Stage of Life
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
- The Yucca and the Moth: How Extreme Weather Impacts the Timing of Biological Events
- Researchers Quantify the Way Rivers Bend, Opening Up the Possibility for Identifying Origins of Channels on Other Planets
- Concrete Evidence: Japanese Buildings Absorb 14% of Cement Production's Carbon Footprint
- The Ozone Hole Is Healing, Thanks to Global Reduction of CFCs
- The Pot Is Already Boiling for 2% of the World's Amphibians
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
- Study Reveals How Rising Temperatures Could Lead to Population Crashes
- World's Critical Food Crops at Imminent Risk from Rising Temperatures
Monday, March 3, 2025
- Melting Antarctic Ice Sheets Will Slow Earth's Strongest Ocean Current
- Engineers Create More Effective Burner to Reduce Methane Emissions
Thursday, February 27, 2025
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
- Are Our Refrigerants Environmentally Safe? The Lingering Questions About the Chemicals Keeping Us Cool
- Beyond the Burn: Harvesting Dead Wood to Reduce Wildfires and Store Carbon
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
- Giant Ice Bulldozers: How Ancient Glaciers Helped Life Evolve
- Tree Diversity Increases Carbon Sequestration
- Africa Set to Reach 1.5 C Climate Change Threshold by 2040 Even Under Low Emission Scenarios
Monday, February 24, 2025
- Arctic Study Urges Stronger Climate Action to Prevent Catastrophic Warming
- Mega-Iceberg from Antarctica on Collision Course With South Georgia: Harbinger of Things to Come?
Friday, February 21, 2025
- The Rising Tide of Sand Mining: A Growing Threat to Marine Life
- UK Peatland Fires Are Supercharging Carbon Emissions as Climate Change Causes Hotter, Drier Summers
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
- Nitrogen Fixation on Marine Particles Is Important in the Global Ocean
- We Can Farm More Seafood While Minimizing Its Impact on Biodiversity
- New Process Gets Common Rocks to Trap Carbon Rapidly, Cheaply
- Global Retreat of Glaciers Has Strongly Accelerated
- 'Glacial Fracking': A Hidden Source of Arctic Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Resilient Algae May Speed Up Greenland Ice Melt
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Friday, February 14, 2025
- Research Reveals How Earth Got Its Ice Caps
- Inconsistent Reporting Leads to Underestimation of Climate Impact of Methane
Thursday, February 13, 2025
- Nanoplastics at Lofty Heights
- Solar-Powered Device Captures Carbon Dioxide from Air to Make Sustainable Fuel
- New England's Salt Marshes Store 10 Million Cars' Worth of Carbon -- And Add Another 15,000-Worth Every Year
- Research Team Identifies Carbonate-Dissolving Microorganisms
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
- Can Artificial Intelligence Save the Great Barrier Reef?
- Global Warming and Mass Extinctions: What We Can Learn from Plants from the Last Ice Age
- Models Show Intensifying Wildfires in a Warming World Due to Changes in Vegetation and Humidity; Only a Minor Role for Lightning
- PIK PR: Little Potential for 'climate Plantations' Within Planetary Boundaries
- Arctic Cyclones Could Be Missing Link in Sea Ice Depletion Models
- Research Finds That Certain Packaging Materials Can Show 70% Lower Emissions Than Alternatives
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
- Why We Need to Expand the Search for Climate-Friendly Microalgae
- Colorado Forests Are Releasing More Carbon Than They Capture Each Year
- Model of Antarctica's Water Enhances Sea Level Forecasts
- Evidence of Cannibalism 18,000 Years Ago
- A Wealth of Evidence: 85,000 Individual Studies About Climate Policy