Snook survive cold spell in deeper waters of Everglades
Restoring freshwater flow to the Florida Everglades could help snook, one of the state's prized gaming fish, survive extreme climate events.
Jun 08, 2017
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Why is climate change such a hard sell in the US?
President Donald Trump on June 1 took the dramatic step of removing the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement – the product of many years of diligent and difficult negotiation among 175 nations around the world. Recent ...
Climate science: Bad news gets worse
As President Donald Trump prepares to announce whether he will pull America out of the 2015 Paris Agreement sanctioned by his predecessor and nearly 200 other world leaders, the stakes on climate change have never been higher.
More frequent extreme ocean warming could further endanger albatross
As Earth warms due to human-caused climate change, extreme climatic events like heat waves, droughts, and spikes in ocean temperatures have increased and are projected to become even more common by the end of this century.
Heat on for Australia's Great Barrier Reef when global temperatures hit 1.5C
If global temperatures hit 1.5°C above pre-industrial conditions—the target negotiated at the 2015 Paris Agreement—it will be twice as likely that we will see a repeat of the extreme ocean heat that severely damaged ...
Extreme weather just might encourage us to get our act together on global warming
Much has been written about our incredible psychological ability to ignore or gloss over the threat of climate change. According to Irina Bokova, director general of UNESCO, "the gap between what we know about the interconnectedness ...
When bridges collapse: Researchers study whether we're underestimating risk
The United States is considering a $1 trillion budget proposal to update infrastructure, including its crumbling bridges. An obstacle to spending the money wisely is that the current means of assessing bridges may underestimate ...
Opinion: Six ways the meat on your plate is killing the planet
When we hear about the horrors of industrial livestock farming – the pollution, the waste, the miserable lives of billions of animals – it is hard not to feel a twinge of guilt and conclude that we should eat less meat.
Was that climate change? Linking extreme weather to global warming
After an unusually intense heatwave, downpour or drought, Noah Diffenbaugh and his research group inevitably receive phone calls and emails asking whether human-caused climate change played a role.
Retreating Yukon glacier caused a river to disappear
The massive Kaskawulsh Glacier in northern Canada has retreated about a mile up its valley over the past century.
