We've known for years that Earth's climate is like a giant Rube Goldberg machine: Pull one lever, and a massive chain of events starts into motion. Yet many of the steps that drive these changes have remained shrouded in ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 29, 2019
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A pair of Orca (Killer Whales) that have been terrorizing and killing Great White Sharks off the coast of South Africa since 2017 has managed to drive large numbers of the sharks from their natural aggregation site.
Plants & Animals
Jun 30, 2022
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The Atlantic overturning—one of Earth's most important heat transport systems, pumping warm water northward and cold water southward—is weaker today than any time before in more than 1000 years. Sea surface temperature ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 11, 2018
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The scorching heat waves of 2023's summer and autumn shook the world, raising a pertinent question: Will this lead to the warmest winter the globe has ever witnessed?
Earth Sciences
Dec 1, 2023
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One of the most worrisome aspects of climate change is the role played by positive feedback mechanisms. In addition to global temperatures rising because of increased carbon dioxide and greenhouse gas emissions, there is ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 24, 2017
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Missing Arctic temperature data, not Mother Nature, created the seeming slowdown of global warming from 1998 to 2012, according to a new study in the journal Nature Climate Change.
Environment
Nov 20, 2017
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Sea ice cover in Antarctica shrank rapidly to a record low in late 2016 and has remained well below average. But what's behind this dramatic melting and low ice cover since?
Earth Sciences
Jan 17, 2019
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Climate change can have mixed consequences: It would appear that the warming of the Mediterranean region, which has brought greater heat and drought to the countries there for around 20 years, is behind an increase in rainfall ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 21, 2016
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Weather-related disasters and climate change impacts are unraveling the fabric of society in the South-West Pacific. Sea level rise threatens the future of low-lying islands while increasing ocean heat and acidification harms ...
Environment
Aug 18, 2023
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The Arctic Ocean has been getting warmer since the beginning of the 20th century—decades earlier than records suggest—due to warmer water flowing into the delicate polar ecosystem from the Atlantic Ocean.
Earth Sciences
Nov 24, 2021
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