Over Half of the World’s Rivers Cease to Flow for at Least One Day a Year
A new study led by researchers from McGill University and INRAE found that between 51-60% of the 64 million kilometers…
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Bringing Back Forests Could Boost Summer Rainfall Across Europe by 7.6%
Converting agricultural land to forests is one way of boosting rainfall and counteracting some of the effects of climate change,…
Earth’s cryosphere is shrinking by 87,000 square kilometers per year
The global cryosphere—all of the areas with frozen water on Earth—shrank by about 87,000 square kilometers (about 33,000 square miles,…
This Week’s Deadly Heatwave Shows We Need a New Way to Talk About Climate Change
In recent days, as Western Canada and the United States have been broiling under a climate-fueled heat crisis, all sorts…
Climate Change Is Making Extreme Weather Events More Frequent
The United Nations calculated that extreme weather events resulted in 15,000 deaths and resulted in economic losses of US $170…
The link between climate change and Astronomy, Climate change affects astronomy, and vice versa.
As astronomers look out to the universe, they use planet Earth as an important reference point. This has created a…
We Need to Manage a Careful Retreat From Climate Change
It’s imperative that human societies factor a strategic ‘managed retreat’ into the ways they respond and adapt to climate change and…
The irreversible Arctic Tipping Point May Already Be Triggered
The tipping point for irreversible global warming may have already been triggered, the scientist who led the biggest-ever expedition to…
Human Decision-Making in Climate Reconstructions Can Lead to Substantially Different Results
The first double-blind experiment analyzing the role of human decision-making in climate reconstructions has found that it can lead to…
Human-Caused Global Warming May Already Account For 1 in 3 Heat-Related Deaths
The climate crisis is often discussed as though it were an imminent event, a disaster on the environmental horizon, heading…