Sea-level rise: A new method to estimate the probability of different outcomes—including a worst case
Here is a depressing fact: over the coming decades, sea-level rise will continue to threaten ecosystems, communities and ...
The world's strongest ocean current should be getting faster – instead, it is at risk of failing
Antarctica's remote and mysterious current has a profound influence on the climate, food systems and Antarctic ecosystems.
Scientists say EPA just needs to look around the world to see the growing dangers of climate change
As President Donald Trump's administration looks to reverse a cornerstone finding that climate change endangers human health and welfare, scientists say they just need to look around because it's ...
Scripps News19d
FAQ: Climate Change in the Polar Regions
Climate change is amplified in the polar regions. The northern and southern reaches of the planet are warming faster than any area on Earth, with the Arctic ocean and air temperatures rising twice as ...
Melting Antarctic ice will slow the world’s strongest ocean current – and the global consequences are profound
Part of the system that pumps water, heat and nutrients around the globe is at risk. Climate change could slow the Antarctic ...
Inside Climate News10d
An Economist’s Dire Forecast About Just How Much Climate Change Will Impact GDP
That means the loss of major ice sheets leading to much larger, faster and longer-term sea level rise ... world typically show that at least three quarters of people think not only is climate ...
Inside Climate News22d
New Research Led by James Hansen Documents Global Warming Acceleration
The panel rejected a 2015 paper with an AMOC shutdown warning, he noted, because it showed too much ... sea level rise.” “The IPCC assesses the science that has been published on climate chang ...
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Guest post: How the global ‘water gap’ will grow under climate change
Population growth, urbanisation and socioeconomic development are all driving greater demand for the world’s finite water resources. At the same time, climate change is altering ... global ...
How huge parts of the U.S. could become uninhabitable within decades — even so-called ‘climate havens’
It’s not just Florida and California — from poisoned water supplies to infrastructure issues to polar vortices, Holly Baxter speaks to experts about why the entire U.S. is being threatened by climate ...
CBS News26d
January 2025 was hottest January on record despite factors thought to make that less likely
Washington — The world warmed to yet ... are warming for our global climate, we're still seeing record temperatures," Burgess said, adding much of that is because of record warmth in the rest ...
The New Yorker8d
The End of Children
The “total fertility rate” is a coarse estimate of the number of children an average woman will bear. A population will be ...
Los Angeles Times4d
Mass firings across National Weather Service, NOAA ignite fury among scientists worldwide
The cuts shrank teams across all facets of the climate-focused agency, from experts working on weather forecasting, ocean health, climate change ... in much of SoCal will continue to rise ...