State-of-the-art climate models drastically underestimate how much extreme rainfall increases under global warming, according to a study published Monday that signals a future of more frequent catastrophic floods unless humanity ...
Environment
Nov 27, 2023
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While knowledge of the mechanisms and dynamics of the growth of atmospheric nanoparticles has increased enormously in the 21st century, extensive models predicting climate change do not yet consider with enough accuracy the ...
Environment
Nov 10, 2023
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As the world continues to warm, Antarctica is losing ice at an increasing pace, but the loss of sea ice may lead to more snowfall over the ice sheets, partially offsetting contributions to sea level rise, according to Penn ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 8, 2023
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Up to now, the results of climate simulations have sometimes contradicted the analysis of climate traces from the past. A team led by the physicist Thomas Laepple from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Potsdam and the climatologist ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 6, 2023
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The world is falling behind on commitments to protect and restore forests, according to the recent Forest Declaration Assessment. There is no serious pathway to fixing climate change while forest losses continue at current ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 2, 2023
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Heavy precipitation, wind storms, heat waves—when severe weather events such as these occur they are frequently attributed to a wavy jet stream. The jet stream is a powerful air current in the upper troposphere that balances ...
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Nov 1, 2023
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If humanity wants to have a 50/50 chance of limiting global warming to 1.5°C, we can only emit 250 another gigatons (billion metric tons) of CO2. This effectively gives the world just six years to get to net zero, according ...
Environment
Oct 31, 2023
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Around 66 million years ago, an asteroid bigger than Mount Everest smashed into Earth, killing off three quarters of all life on the planet—including the dinosaurs.
Earth Sciences
Oct 30, 2023
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China has been making strides in recent years to reduce air pollution, including fitting filters in coal-fired power stations to remove sulfur dioxide from emissions, a molecule that reacts with other compounds in the atmosphere ...
Changes in mean temperature and temperature extremes at regional scale under a warmer climate have received much attention. A subset of CMIP6 climate models, known as "hot models," have been projecting more significant warming ...
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