Melting of Alaska's Juneau icefield accelerates, losing snow nearly 5 times faster than in the 1980s
A new study says the melting of Alaska’s Juneau icefield, home to more than 1,000 glaciers, is accelerating
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A new study says the melting of Alaska’s Juneau icefield, home to more than 1,000 glaciers, is accelerating
July 02, 2024Hurricane Beryl’s explosive growth into an unprecedented early storm shows the literal hot water the Atlantic and Caribbean are in right now and the kind of season ahead
July 01, 2024Experts hope the sputtering global public health system and efforts to curb global warming through collaboration can combine to create a better system for handling the problem
September 18, 2023While the U.S. is shivering through bone-chilling cold, most of the rest of world is feeling unusually warm weather
January 16, 2024When dangerous heat waves strike, what happens inside the human body can become a life-or-death battle decided by just a few degrees
June 21, 2024A new study finds that human-caused climate change dialed up the heat and drastically increased the odds of this month’s killer heat that has been baking the Southwestern United States, Mexico and Central America
June 20, 2024With their bulging red eyes and their alien-like mating sound, periodical cicadas can seem scary and weird enough
June 19, 2024The periodical cicadas that have blanketed parts of the American Midwest this spring are strange creatures, but they have nothing on some of their superfans
June 15, 2024John Kerry feels he’s going out on a high note as he retires from leading U.S. efforts in international negotiations to confront ever-worsening climate change
March 04, 2024Top scientists calculate that the rate Earth is warming hit an all-time high in 2023 with 92% of last year’s surprising record-shattering heat caused by humans
June 04, 2024Scientists say temperatures that have gone “crazy haywire” hot, especially in the Atlantic, are close to making the current global coral bleaching event the worst in history
May 16, 2024A new study finds that the broiling summer of 2023 was the hottest in the Northern Hemisphere in more than 2,000 years
May 14, 2024The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says the levels of the crucial heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere reached historic highs last year, growing at near-record fast paces
April 05, 2024A new study says climate change is making giant heat waves crawl slower across the globe and they are baking more people for a longer time with higher temperatures over larger areas
March 29, 2024A new study calculates that U.S. oil and natural gas wells, pipelines and compressors are spewing three times the amount of the potent heat-trapping gas methane as the government thinks
March 13, 2024Scientists have confirmed what became of a star that exploded in a stunning supernova visible to Earth more than three decades ago
February 22, 2024With Arctic sea ice shrinking from climate change, many polar bears have to shift their diets to land during parts of the summer
February 13, 2024An abrupt shutdown of Atlantic Ocean currents that could put large parts of Europe in a deep freeze is looking a bit more likely and closer than before as a new complex computer simulation finds a “cliff-like” tipping point looming in the future
February 09, 2024With last year’s undersea volcano injecting massive amounts of water high into the atmosphere, scientists were bracing for a big Antarctica ozone hole this fall
November 01, 2023A top United Nations official says even though climate change makes disasters such as cyclones, floods and droughts more intense, more frequent and striking more places, fewer people are dying from those catastrophes globally
June 01, 2024Get ready for what nearly all the experts think will be one of the busiest Atlantic hurricane seasons on record thanks to unprecedented ocean heat and a brewing La Nina
May 23, 2024A new report says circumstantial evidence points to climate change as worsening the deadly deluge that flooded Dubai and surroundings
April 25, 2024A new study says climate change will reduce future global income by about 19% in the next 25 years compared to a fictional world that’s not warming, with the poorest areas and those least responsible for heat-trapping gases taking the biggest monetary hit
April 17, 2024The periodical cicadas that are about to infest two parts of the United States aren’t just plentiful, they’re downright weird
April 01, 2024NASA wants to come up with an out-of-this-world way to keep track of time, putting the moon on its own souped-up clock
April 02, 2024