Latest Stories in Climate Change - Page 9
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Edward Burtynsky Photographs Farming in Monegros Spain
Canadian photographer Ed Burtynsky has a new subject: the impact of long-term farming in Monegros, Spain.
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Duluth, Minnesota Flooding -- Zoo Animals Drown, Polar Bear and Seal Escape (Update 2, More Photos)
Maybe global warming, maybe not...but another weather emergency hits the headlines
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Everything You Need to Know to Convincingly Argue in Favor of Climate Action in 15 Minutes
David Roberts' TEDx talk aims to give you all the firepower you need to make the case for addressing the most serious issue of our time.
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Antarctica Used to be 20 Degrees Fahrenheit Warmer, with Trees and Vegetation
Making predictions is hard, especially about the future. But we still have to try, because our best projections, even if they are flawed, are still better than whistling in total darkness.
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Apocalyptic Map Shows San Francisco After 200 Feet of Sea Level Rise
An imagining of what San Francisco looks like in the climate change-wracked dystopian future.
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Satellite Sees Smoke From Siberian Fires Reach US Coast
As a satellite watches smoke make it all the way from Siberia to the US coast, scientists look at how we can track movement of pollution around the globe.
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Climate News: Warming in US Will Boost Western Wildfires; Harm Eastern Soil Fertility
Plus, China's underreported emissions bigger than all of Africa's; and Southwest states warming most of all in US.
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Carbon-Belching Microbes Pose Yet Another Global Warming Feedback Loop
Here we go again: a new study finds that the warmer it gets, the better microbes can eat—and exhale—carbon dioxide stored in forest topsoil.
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The Weight of the Evidence: How We Know the Planet is Warming
In this excerpt from the latest book by the Union of Concerned Scientists, the authors explain why we're standing at a climate crossroads&dmash;and how serious the next decision really is.
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Thus Far, 2012 is Hottest Ever Recorded in the US
The United States just slogged through its warmest spring ever recorded.
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Exceptionally Rapid Ancient Sea Level Rise Illuminates Rate of Coming Changes
We're in for 60-180 centimeter sea level rise by the end of this century, double what climate models showed in 2007.
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Geoengineering by Increasing Aerosols Could Make Blue Skies a Thing of the Past
Some new research looks at the unintended consequences of injecting aerosols into the atmosphere to block solar radiation and cool the planet, finding that doing so could turn skies everywhere into a brighter, whiter, hazier, ugly mess.
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The Biggest Wildfire in New Mexico's History, as Seen From Space.
NASA satellite imagery reveals the massive scope of New Mexico's record-setting blaze.
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Arctic CO2 Hitting 400ppm - Greenland Sets New High Temperature Record for May
Though the global average still remains below these high Arctic readings, it's a sign of dangerous things to come. The last time global CO2 was this high was 800,000 years ago.
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Global Warming and Tourism Turning Mt. Everest Into a Death Trap
Mt. Everest is losing both snow cover and respect.
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'AIDS of the Americas' May Spread to U.S. with Climate Change
The deadly Chagas disease is on the rise, and the insects that transmit venture northward in the warming climate.
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Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions Rose 3.2%, Hit New High in 2011
Large increases in China offset decreases in the US and Europe, new data from the IEA shows.
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Louisville, Detroit, Cleveland May See Nearly 20,000 More Heat-Related Deaths Each Year by 2100
NRDC has just released a new report showing how many more heat-related deaths may happen in the US each year if we don't rein in our climate pollution.
