Ice-sheet models are an essential tool in making predictions regarding the future of the Greenland…
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Climate change refers to the long-term alteration of Earth’s climate patterns—primarily driven by human activities such as burning fossil fuels, deforestation, and industrial emissions that increase greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. It affects global temperatures, weather systems, ocean currents, and ecosystems, leading to rising sea levels, more intense storms, droughts, wildfires, and biodiversity loss. Climate science combines atmospheric physics, oceanography, geology, and ecology to understand these shifts and predict future impacts. Ongoing research focuses on mitigation strategies like renewable energy, carbon capture, and reforestation, as well as adaptation efforts to protect communities, agriculture, and natural systems from escalating climate risks.
This series of four Copernicus Sentinel-2 images captured between June 29 and July 24, 2020,…
Europe’s primary forests: What to protect? What to restore? Primary forests are forests without any…
A much richer picture of the past revealed with new DNA recovery technique. Researchers at…
The closest analog to modern times is no longer very close, study finds. A new…
Some but not all U.S. metro areas could grow all the food they need locally,…
In early September 2020, an intense heatwave broke temperature records in several locations in Southern…
Stone forests — pointed rock formations resembling trees that populate regions of China, Madagascar, and…
A continuous record of the past 66 million years shows natural climate variability due to…
New research from an international team of evolutionary geneticists, bioinformaticians, and paleontologists suggests that dramatic…
Global warming is dramatically increasing the risk of extreme hurricanes in the Caribbean, but meeting…
A global analysis reveals for the first time that across almost all tree species, fast-growing…
A recent report confirms that ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica, whose mass-loss rates have…
At the turn of the 21st century, unbeknownst to the world, the Greenland ice sheet…
Our Energy Hunger Is Tethered to Our Economic Past Just as a living organism continually…
Almost 100 years ago, there was a strange, slow-motion takeover of the Great Plains. During…
Over the past months, the Arctic has experienced alarmingly high temperatures, extreme wildfires and a…
Ocean Carbon Uptake Widely Underestimated The world’s oceans soak up much more carbon than most…