The Arctic Ocean's ice cap will disappear in summer as soon as the 2030s and a decade earlier than thought, no matter how aggressively humanity draws down the carbon pollution that drives global warming, scientists said Tuesday.
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A recent report from the World Meteorological Organization about the state of the climate indicates that the global mean temperature in 2022 was 1.15°C above the 1850-1900 (preindustrial reference period) average. Moreover, ...
Environment
May 31, 2023
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One of the primary drivers of climate change is excess greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Mitigating climate change in the coming century will require both decarbonization—electrifying the power grid ...
Earth Sciences
May 30, 2023
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The world is rapidly running out of time on climate change.
Environment
May 19, 2023
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Scientists have discovered the cause of giant underwater landslides in Antarctica, which they believe could have generated tsunami waves that stretched across the Southern Ocean.
Earth Sciences
May 18, 2023
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Human-caused greenhouse gas emissions mean strong El Niño and La Niña events are occurring more often, according to our new research published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, which provides important new evidence ...
Environment
May 18, 2023
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Florida State University researchers have analyzed the carbon exported from surface waters of the California Current Ecosystem—the first-ever study to quantify the total carbon sequestration for a region of the ocean.
Earth Sciences
May 18, 2023
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Adding to the grim list of record ice losses, record air temperatures and record droughts, which have all hit the headlines recently, the temperature of the surface waters of our oceans is also at an all-time high. With an ...
Planetary Sciences
May 18, 2023
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We have crossed six of the nine boundaries within which human life on Earth will still be possible for future generations. That is not good news. Can the tide still be turned?
Environment
May 17, 2023
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About 13,000 years ago, a climate crisis caused a global drop in temperatures in the northern hemisphere. This episode of intense cold, known as the Younger Dryas, also caused severe aridity across the Mediterranean basin, ...
Earth Sciences
May 16, 2023
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