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Oct 14, 2022

Global Warming: Dire Prediction for the Year 3000

Even if humans stop producing excess carbon dioxide in 2100, the lingering effects of global warming could span the next millennia. The results? By the year 3000, global warming would be more than a hot topic — the West Antarctic ice sheet could collapse, and global sea levels would rise...

Oct 14, 2022

New Plastic Could Reduce Carbon Dioxide Emissions

A plastic tweaked to mimic cellular membranes can separate carbon dioxide from natural gas and could help reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, scientists say. The technology, detailed in the Oct. 12 issue of the journal Science, might also be modified to isolate natural gas from decomposing garbage or filter...

Nov 23, 2022

Climate summit agrees to 'historic' loss-and-damage fund — but misses warming goals

The 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27) concluded Sunday (Nov. 20) with a last-minute agreement on loss and damage funding for developing nations suffering climate impacts. Critics argue that the annual meeting made little progress on goals to limit warming, however....

Nov 28, 2022

Rising sea levels could swamp the US coastline by 2050, NASA predicts

Sea levels are likely rising faster than previously thought, meaning low-lying coastal cities in the U.S. could flood far more regularly in the coming decades, a NASA study has revealed. According to the study, which analyzed three decades of satellite observations, by 2050, sea levels along the coastlines of the...

Dec 7, 2022

Surprising loss of sea ice after record-breaking Arctic storm is a mystery to scientists

Early in 2022, the Arctic experienced its strongest cyclone on record, with wind speeds reaching 62 mph (100 km/h). Although storms aren't rare in the Arctic, this one led to an extensive loss of sea ice that surprised Arctic researchers. In the Arctic, sea ice — frozen seawater that floats...

Dec 19, 2022

Greenland's glaciers are melting 100 times faster than estimated

Greenland's glaciers are melting 100 times faster than previously calculated, according to a new model that takes into account the unique interaction between ice and water at the island’s fjords. The new mathematical representation of glacial melt factors in the latest observations of how ice gets eaten away from the...

Dec 27, 2022

10 signs we got closer to climate disaster in 2022

It's undeniable: Earth's climate is warming dramatically, and it is wreaking havoc on animals, plants and humans. And if people don't curb greenhouse gas emissions substantially — and fast — we could be barreling toward an even scarier future. From zombie viruses awakening to polar bears dumpster-diving, here are 10...

Jan 27, 2023

What are the effects of global warming?

The effects of global warming can be seen and felt across the planet. Global warming, the gradual heating of Earth's surface, oceans and atmosphere, is caused by human activity, primarily the burning of fossil fuels that pump carbon dioxide (CO2), methane and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Already, the...

Jan 30, 2023

Which animals are most likely to survive climate change?

As climate change transforms our world, the impacts will be felt unequally, with some animals struggling to survive and others finding ways to overcome the resulting challenges. This phenomenon is increasingly described as the winners and losers under climate change, said Giovanni Strona, an ecologist and former associate professor at...

Feb 15, 2023

Doomsday Glacier is melting slower than previously thought — but it's still in big trouble

An Antarctic glacier nicknamed the Doomsday Glacier because of its potential to contribute to catastrophic sea level rise is melting slower than previously estimated. But Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica is still in trouble. Two new studies published today (Feb. 15) in the journal Nature reveal that while the glacier...

Mar 8, 2023

Antarctica's sea ice reaches its lowest level since records began, for the 2nd year in a row

The amount of sea ice surrounding Antarctica has reached its lowest level since modern records began, for the second year in a row. Sea ice is frozen seawater that floats on the ocean's surface around the planet's polar regions. It forms at much lower sustained temperatures than freshwater ice does,...

Mar 10, 2023

'Zombie' viruses have been revived from Siberian permafrost. Could they infect people?

There is a frozen soup of viruses, bacteria and fungal spores lurking beneath the frigid Arctic soil. Unlike the icy leftovers in the back of your freezer, some of these microbes haven't interacted with a cell since well before ancient Egyptians built the Pyramids of Giza about 4,500 years ago....

Mar 20, 2023

World must act now to defuse 'climate time bomb,' UN scientists warn

The world needs immediate action now to defuse a climate time bomb that will unleash catastrophic environmental effects and climate breakdown, United Nation (UN) scientists have said in the last of its four major assessment reports to governments on Monday (March 20). Governments must make rapid, deep and immediate cuts...

Apr 14, 2023

The surface of the ocean is now so hot it's broken every record since satellite measurements began

Ocean surface temperatures have hit an all-time high this month, breaking every record since satellite measurements began in the 1980s. Temperatures reached a global average of 69.98 Fahrenheit (21.1 degrees Celsius) in the first days of April. The previous record of 69.9 F (21 degrees C) was set in March...

May 5, 2023

Energy of '25 billion atomic bombs' trapped on Earth in just 50 years, all because of global warming

Global warming has trapped an explosive amount of energy in Earth's atmosphere in the past half century — the equivalent of about 25 billion atomic bombs, a new study finds. In the paper, published April 17 in the journal Earth System Science Data, an international group of researchers estimated that,...