Scientists say a crucial Atlantic system is set to collapse, but the billionaire death cult that steers humanity’s destiny just doesn’t do existential crises.
Impacts
In California’s Central Valley, Nikiko Masumoto reckons with the future of growing in an increasingly hot world.
Warming ocean waters are priming beaches and raw shellfish for Vibrio; scientists are trying to stay one step ahead.
Indigenous leaders at a UN forum linked climate change, mining, and deforestation to health crises, urging coordinated land rights action.
Research shows natural hazards linked to climate crisis disrupted 23 elections in 18 countries in 2024.
It could boost temperatures, humidity, and the threat of tropical storms in the West through summer.
Researchers studying the crustacean’s early life cycles find clues that can help the fishery that depends on them plan for a warmer future.
Scientists long believed it would take more than a century for animals to return to deforested land. New research shows that’s not always the case.
The American Lung Association’s annual report finds that climate change is making dirty air worse, especially for communities of color. The Trump administration keeps targeting rules meant to help.
At a site in South Carolina, researchers burn down test houses to learn how different materials and designs can withstand flames.
Officials at the annual Rio Grande Compact Commission meeting said they expect river flows this year to be among the lowest in history.
A changing climate and prolonged drought in many regions has had a surprising impact on some farmers: better yields.
In a lakeside village in Kenya's Kisumu County, women were forbidden from fishing — until Rhoda Ongoche Akech defied the stigma.

Wildfires make soil poisonous
20 April
New research shows that intense wildfires can transform naturally occurring chromium in soil into a carcinogenic form that lingers in air and groundwater for years.
The Trump administration will pull its emergency levers to head off a major water and power crisis.
Scientists warn that no adaptation measure can sustain Venice as rising sea levels threaten to swallow the city.
Wildfires are lasting later into the night and starting earlier in the morning because human-caused climate change is extending the hotter and drier conditions that feed them.
Ten years ago, Antarctica's sea ice suddenly and dramatically declined. Scientists now blame a "very violent release" of deep, pent-up heat.
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