An aggregation of recent climate news feeds:
2022-01-03 Where the microbe Prochlorococcus lives is not determined primarily by temperature, as previously thought. A study finds a relationship with a shared predator actually sets the microbe's range. The findings could help scientists predict how Prochloroco …›
2022-01-03 Africa’s “Great Green Wall” initiative is a proposed 8,000-kilometer line of trees meant to hold back the Sahara from expanding southward. New climate simulations looking to both the region’s past and future suggest this greening could have a …›
2021-12-30 By John Upton (Climate Central) and Joe Martucci (Press of Atlantic City) ATLANTIC CITY — Like many of the 21,735 casino workers in New Jersey, Mike Luko’s ability to get to and from wo …›
2021-12-29 Atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels have increased significantly over the last 50 years, resulting in higher global temperatures and abrupt changes to Earth's climate. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is one of the new technologies that scientists …›
2021-12-23 Planting trees and suppressing wildfires do not necessarily maximize the carbon storage of natural ecosystems. A new study has found that prescribed burning can actually lock in or increase carbon in the soils of temperate forests, savannahs and grassl …›
2021-12-22 When winds loft fine desert dust high into the atmosphere, iodine in that dust can trigger chemical reactions that destroy some air pollution, but also let greenhouse gases stick around longer. The finding may force researchers to re-evaluate how parti …›
2021-12-22 Microorganisms can convert oil into natural gas, i.e. methane. Until recently, it was thought that this conversion was only possible through the cooperation of different organisms. In 2019, a researcher suggested that a special archaeon can do this all …›
2021-12-22 Remote localities are generally considered as potential reservoirs for biodiversity, but this is just part of the story. With regard to fish communities, researchers have produced a global map of risk that shows that no place is safe, regardless of dis …›
2021-12-22 Scientists predict that continued global warming under current trends could lead to an elevation of the sea level by as much as five meters by the year 3000 CE. …›
2021-12-22 This was another year of bleak climate news. Record heat waves baked the Pacific Northwest. Wildfires raged in California, Oregon, Washington and neighboring states. Tropical cyclones rapidly intensified in the Pacific Ocean. And devastating flash flo …›
2021-12-22 A recent study found that the total indirect emissions from the supply of chain of electric vehicles pale in comparison to the same indirect emissions from fossil fuel-powered vehicles. …›
2021-12-21 As the Arctic and the oceans warm due to climate change, understanding how a rapidly changing environment may affect birds making annual journeys between the Arctic and the high seas is vital to international conservation efforts. However, for some Arc …›
2021-12-20 In 1721, a Norwegian missionary set sail for Greenland in the hopes of converting the Viking descendants living there to Protestantism. When he arrived, the only traces he found of the Nordic society were ruins of settlements that had been abandoned 3 …›
2021-12-17 By Ayurella Horn-Muller (Climate Central). With reporting and news segment by Amber Strong (Newsy) Massive bee hives can be found on the grounds of Mount St. Scholastica, a 158-year-old Benedic …›
2021-12-16 By Ayurella Horn-Muller (Climate Central). With reporting and news segment by Amber Strong (Newsy). Just two hours north of New York city is the Chuang Yen Monastery, a serene site of Buddhist worsh …›
2021-12-16 NEW ORLEANS — Warmer winters could make twisters more powerful. Though tornadoes can occur in any season, the United States logs the greatest number of powerful twisters in the warmer months from March to July. Devastating winter tornadoes like t …›
2021-12-15 By Ayurella Horn-Muller (Climate Central). With news segment by Amber Strong (Newsy) St. Paul’s Episcopal Key West, which is trying to spur climate action among its congregatio …›
2021-12-13 The demise of a West Antarctic glacier poses the world’s biggest threat to raise sea levels before 2100 — and an ice shelf that’s holding it back from the sea could collapse within three to five years, scientists reported December 13 at the Amer …›
2021-12-09 By Ayurella Horn-Muller (Climate Central), Brendan Rivers (ADAPT), and Danielle Uliano (WJXT) The Lincolnville Museum and Cultural Center recently raised its air conditioning units 18 inches to pro …›
2021-12-08 Wildfire smoke and urban air pollution bring out the worst in each other. As wildfires rage, they transform their burned fuel into a complex chemical cocktail of smoke. Many of these airborne compounds, including ozone, cause air quality to plummet …›
2021-12-06 Virginia’s Tangier Island is rapidly disappearing. Rising sea levels are exacerbating erosion and flooding, and could make the speck of land in the Chesapeake Bay uninhabitable within the next few decades. For years, island residents, policy makers …›
2021-12-02 The Southern Ocean is still busily absorbing large amounts of the carbon dioxide emitted by humans’ fossil fuel burning, a study based on airborne observations of the gas suggests. The new results counter a 2018 report that had found that the ocean …›
2021-11-30 When it comes to storing carbon in the ground, fungi may be key. Soils are a massive reservoir of carbon, holding about three times as much carbon as Earth’s atmosphere. The secret behind this carbon storage are microbes, such as bacteria and som …›
2021-11-29 Hurricane Lizards and Plastic SquidThor HansonBasic Books, $28 As a conservation biologist, Thor Hanson has seen firsthand the effects of climate change on plants and animals in the wild: the green macaws of Central America migrating along with …›
2021-11-19 It’s hard to imagine what Earth might look like in 2500. But a collaboration between science and art is offering an unsettling window into how ongoing climate change might transform now-familiar terrain into alien landscapes over the next few centur …›
2021-11-18 Over decades, centuries and millennia, the steady skyward climb of redwoods, the tangled march of mangroves along tropical coasts and the slow submersion of carbon-rich soil in peatlands has locked away billions of tons of carbon. If these na …›
2021-11-16 When North Carolina residents Susan McGuirk and her husband bought a holiday house on a large waterfront plot in Wingate, in Maryland’s Dorchester County, the stately old home hadn’t been …›
2021-11-15 It started with polar bears. In 2012, polar bear DNA revealed that the iconic species had faced extinction before, likely during a warm period 130,000 years ago, but had rebounded. For researchers, the discovery led to one burning question: Could p …›
2021-11-12 In a remote corner of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, researchers have spent decades catching and measuring birds in a large swath of forest unmarred by roads or deforestation. An exemplar of the Amazon’s dazzling diversity, the experimental plot was …›
2021-11-09 By John Upton, Climate Central and Maanvi Singh, The Guardian The Dixie fire ranked as the second-largest California wildfire on record - surpassed only by the million-acre-plus August Complex fire …›
2021-11-05 Global temperatures are rising and so, it seems, is part of the sky. Atmosphere readings collected by weather balloons in the Northern Hemisphere over the last 40 years reveal that climate change is pushing the upper boundary of the troposphere — …›
2021-11-02 By Ayurella Horn-Muller (Climate Central), Brendan Rivers (ADAPT) and Danielle Uliano (WJXT) At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and during the ensuing economic slowdown, Jacksonville …›
2021-10-26 This year was supposed to be a turning point in addressing climate change. But the world’s nations are failing to meet the moment, states a new report by the United Nations Environment Programme. The Emissions Gap Report 2021: The Heat Is On, rel …›
2021-10-14 The amount of sunlight that Earth reflects back into space — measured by the dim glow seen on the dark portions of a crescent moon’s face — has decreased measurably in recent years. Whether the decline in earthshine is a short-term blip or yet a …›
2021-10-12 PICTURING OUR FUTURE | KEY CONCEPTS | METHODOLOGY Today’s climate and energy choices shape tomorrow’s shorelines New Climate Central research shows that under the current …›
2021-10-07 Each year since 2015, Science News has featured the work of outstanding early- and mid-career scientists in our SN 10: Scientists to Watch list. They’re nominated by Nobel laureates and members of the National Academy of Sciences, and are recognized …›
2021-10-04 By John Upton, Kelly Van Baalen, Scott Kulp, Climate Central and Selena Vasquez, Joe Martucci, The Press of Atalntic City This story was produced through a partnership between Press of …›
2021-10-04 By Caitlin Looby, Climate Central and Clarisa Diaz, Quartz Both of these fields are at risk This story was produced through a partnership between Quartz and Climate Central. …›
2021-09-23 By Caitlin Looby, Climate Central and Amber Alexander, NBC WHO 13 Des Moines IOWA — Jean Eells dug into the earth on her farm after the fall harvest and discovered a problem. It was 2016 and …›
2021-09-15 By Priyanka Runwal, Climate Central and Elisa Raffa, Fox 46 Charlotte This story was produced through a partnership between FOX 46 Charlotte and Climate Central. (FOX 46 CHARLOTTE) …›