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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.
A new study finds that biodiversity loss accounts for the largest share of global environmental…
A powerful climate signal is building across the tropical Pacific, and satellites can see it…
Deep, clean convective clouds can reach high supersaturation levels that may allow aerosols to intensify…
Nitric oxide may play a larger role in city air pollution than scientists previously thought.…
North Pacific winter storm paths are moving toward the North Pole faster than scientists expected.…
A long drought on Flores may have helped drive Homo floresiensis and its prey away…
Hundreds of previously uncataloged Antarctic glacial earthquakes may reveal how Thwaites Glacier is changing near…
Sea-level rise is not just about the oceans. New research shows that sinking land is…
A new study suggests Antarctic ice loss may be reliably projected over the next several…
Coastal farmland in the Mid-Atlantic is being overtaken by rising seas faster than forests, revealing…
A new study reveals that oak trees can keep photosynthesizing for months after growth ends,…
Researchers explored how different dietary changes could reduce the carbon footprint of food consumption. A…
Food waste may become a powerful climate tool thanks to tiny reusable beads that capture…
Rising seas could turn mangroves from carbon-storing climate allies into unexpected carbon emitters. Mangroves are…
Scientists say melting sea ice may have pushed the Arctic Ocean past a tipping point,…
Earth’s oceans are rising at nearly twice the pace seen in the 1960s, fueled by…
Warming is making Himalayan rivers more unstable, with potentially serious consequences downstream. The Himalayas do…