2024 has been another challenging year for Earth's climate, marked by record temperatures, extreme weather events, and urgent warnings from scientists about the accelerating pace of global warming.
Satellite imagery from NASA and the European Space Agency reveal 13 years of melt on the Greenland Ice Sheet.
The staggering deaths of over 300 African elephants in early 2020 was most likely due to toxins in water proliferated to exceptional levels by climate extremes, according to a fresh analysis of decade's worth of satellite data.
The annual UN climate summit has kicked off in Baku, Azerbaijan, with lofty goals, but many global leaders missing.
A super-pressurized, 290-mile-long river is running under the ice sheet. That could be bad news for sea-level rise.
More than half of the sea now logs temperatures once considered extreme, threatening countless species, livelihoods, and the air we breathe.
Historical footage of the Tour of Flanders shows that trees have been flowering earlier since the 1980s
Planet-changing carbon emissions have become a chronic condition. The post
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Baleen whales probably only grew colossal some 3 million years ago, and it was probably climate change that triggered the transformation. The post
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An ecologist argues that cryptographically-sealed databases could starve out inefficiencies that are ruining the environment. The post
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