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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.
When the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs slammed into the planet, the impact set…
Scientists with Arizona State University connections are important contributors to a newly published article in…
Climate change is increasing the number of days of extreme heat and decreasing the number…
In July 2015, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency head Gina McCarthy was being grilled by lawmakers…
A new study published this week reveals the first evidence of a direct link between…
The dramatic loss of Arctic sea ice through climate change has only a “minimal influence”…
A new study says pink noise may be the key to separating out natural climate…
A new MIT study reports that, if China follows through with its international pledge to…
More Arctic sea ice is entering the North Atlantic Ocean than before, making it increasingly…
A new analysis by NASA shows that Earth’s global surface temperatures in 2017 ranked as…
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Kelp forests grow along coastlines worldwide, largely hidden from view. Like rainforests, they’re among the…
In the first study to predict whether different populations of the same plant species can…
A UCLA-led team was the first to measure Greenland’s melting glaciers from the top of…
The HELIX project warns that some impacts of global warming (such as sea level rise…
New research from MIT reveals that about 251.9 million years ago, in a region that…
Newly published research identifies the western U.S. counties with the highest risk of exposure to…