Climate Change
Use Nature as Infrastructure
In the climate crisis, wetlands have more economic value than new development
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Climate Change
Spring Is Starting Earlier—It’s Not Your Imagination
Birds are heading north before their insect prey emerge. Bees are missing out on early blossoms. Ticks and other pests have more time to feast and spread disease
Climate Change
Scientists Just Warned We Need to Cut Emissions by 60 Percent, but the U.S. Is Years Away
The IPCC’s latest climate assessment says the world must cut greenhouse gas emissions by 60 percent by 2035, but the U.S. is already behind on a less ambitious target...
Climate Change
Will Humans Ever Go Extinct?
It’s probably a matter of when and how, not if, we humans will meet our doom
Climate Change
Fast, Deep Cuts in Emissions Are Needed to Avoid ‘Climate Time Bomb’
To keep warming below levels that scientists say will bring extreme climate impacts, nations must act quickly to make deep cuts in carbon emissions, according to the final installment of the IPCC’s latest climate report...
Climate Change
We Need New Warning Systems to Save Lives during Climate Disasters
Satellites that can better predict extreme weather and location-based text messaging systems can warn at-risk communities of storms and other climate-related threats to help save lives, the U.N...
Education
Texas Weakens Climate Science Education Guidelines
Texas education officials adopted changes to internal guidance on textbooks that could steer schools to buy books that misinform students about global warming
Climate Change
What the Silicon Valley Bank Collapse Means for Science Start-ups
Bailouts mean customers’ deposits are safe, but the Silicon Valley Bank’s demise has sparked concern about future investment in small tech companies
Fossil Fuels
Environmental and Indigenous Groups Sue over Willow Oil-Drilling Project
A coalition of environmental and Indigenous groups is suing the Biden administration over the approval of the Willow oil- and gas-drilling project in Alaska, arguing the government failed to consider the climate risks, as well as harm to wildlife and subsistence hunting...
Climate Change
How the U.S. Cracked Down on a Potent Greenhouse Gas
The U.S. government is celebrating some success at reining in emissions of a potent greenhouse gas called SF 6 , which traps 25,000 times more heat than CO 2 does over a century-long timescale...
Evolution
Inside the Scientific Quest to Save (Most of) the World’s Parasites
Scientists are on a mission to save parasites—not to kill them. Climate change is already doing an increasingly good job at the latter, and that could be a big problem for the world...
Climate Change
Rich Countries Should Not Control the World’s Sunlight, Experts Warn
Interest is building in using solar geoengineering to combat climate warming, but experts warn it could have broad—and inequitable—impacts
Climate Change
Australia’s Massive Wildfires Shredded the Ozone Layer—Now Scientists Know Why
Smoke from the catastrophic 2019–2020 fires in Australia unleashed ozone-eating chlorine molecules into the stratosphere
Climate Change
Antarctic Sea Ice Hits a Record Low, but Role of Warming Is Unclear
The vast and deep Southern Ocean complicates efforts to single out the role of climate change in declining sea ice
Climate Change
Old Bomber Plane Will Sniff the Sky for Geoengineering Particles
NOAA will use a converted Air Force bomber to search the upper atmosphere for substances that could help the U.S. reflect sunlight away from Earth
Water
‘Pretty Epic’ Mountain Snowfall Stuns Californians
A near-record amount of snow in California could ease some water restrictions after years of climate-change-fueled drought
Climate Change
Could Giant Blankets and Other Extreme Actions Save Glaciers?
Plastic coverings, gravity snow guns and painted rocks could slow ice melt in high mountains
Climate Change
Record-Breaking Boreal Fires May Be a Climate ‘Time Bomb’
Fires in North America and Eurasia spewed record-shattering amounts of CO2 in 2021
Climate Change
Algal Blooms Have Boomed Worldwide
Climate change is likely at least partially to blame for an uptick in the size and frequency of algal blooms in parts of the world’s oceans
Climate Change
Solar Geoengineering Should Be Regulated, U.N. Report Says
A panel of independent experts urged international leaders to set rules for the stratosphere and solar geoengineering
