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These international climate assessments are used by governments worldwide as they weigh future risks and climate policies.
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When heat in doesn’t equal heat out, Earth sees changes.
Scientists are urging the Biden administration to protect mature US forests as a climate change strategy, starting with…
Emperor penguins survive in a ‘Goldilocks zone’ between too much sea ice and too little. Global warming is putting their…
This kind of research, with consistent data collection at the same locations over time, helps support global understanding…
More than 40 fire scientists and forest ecologists in the US and Canada teamed up to investigate why wildfires are getting…
Much of the US has been experiencing heat waves in recent weeks. An economist explains how the often record-high temperatures…
The Earth is constantly changing in natural ways, but most of those changes are very slow. Humans are speeding up other…
Huge blooms of brown seaweed have fouled Florida and Caribbean beaches almost every year over the past decade. They originate…
Farmers markets aren’t just for yuppies – they are increasingly serving customers at all social and economic levels,…
A bipartisan group of senators said it reached a deal on $550 billion in new spending on infrastructure.
Healthy corals and mangroves break waves and dissipate their energy. Paired with unobtrusive hardened structures, they can…
The spotted lanternfly, native to Asia, is spreading fast since arriving in the United States seven years ago. An entomologist…
Globally, the temperature changed by half a degree Celsius, but it dramatically altered the likelihood of extreme local…
Not every extreme weather event is caused by climate change, but heat waves that were once ridiculously improbable are showing…
The results of Foote's simple experiments were confirmed through hundreds of tests by scientists in the US and Europe.…