Impacts
A transformation in the seagrass meadows hidden under the surface of the Chesapeake Bay may have huge implications for fish and crabs living in the estuary.
Canada’s outdated flood maps put people at risk. In Montreal, a battle over updating them highlights a nationwide worry over home values and insurance costs
Rock samples collected from the Greenland ice sheet’s Prudhoe Dome show it completely melted in the past 10,000 years — and could vanish again amid climate change.

In his new book, Julian Hattem explores how migration can be a climate solution, not just for those who move, but their home communities as well.

As glaciers melt in Western Canada at an alarming rate, outdoor guides are not only witnessing climate change, but managing the hazards.

Libby Jewett founded the U.S. ocean acidification program and had begun work on offshore wind energy. But she joined the past year’s historic exodus from the agency, the impacts of which are still not clear.
A University of Arizona economics professor says his research shows climate change has reduced U.S. income by an estimated 12%.

New York City is expected to experience increasing rainfall over the next few decades, especially during cloudbursts—short, intense rainfall events.

Emergency managers say the US president has presided over a dangerous erosion in US capacity to prepare for and respond to natural disasters
It’s been a year of heartbreak and chronic worry since the most destructive wildfires in the Los Angeles area’s history scorched neighborhoods and displaced tens of thousands of people.
Scientists warn that a proposed expansion of Port Everglades could cause unprecedented damage to corals in the U.S., including some of the only remaining endangered staghorn corals that survived a record-breaking heat wave.
Experts warn that the slightest increase in temperatures can trigger early blooming in hundreds of wildflower species.

Officials say persistent high-pressure systems and warming seas reflect the growing influence of human-driven climate change on the UK’s weather.

Greenhouse gas and particulate emissions from fires around the world may be 70 percent higher than once believed.
An analysis of the expansion of cracks in the Thwaites Glacier over the past 20 years suggests that a total collapse could be only a matter of time.
Researchers have warned of the unexpected consequences of extremely hot, humid conditions during pregnancy.
In ways subtle and extreme, the warming climate is hitting those with the least the hardest.

Southern sea otters living along California’s coast are struggling in warmer seas, with new threats and changing food sources. They, like the other two sea otter subspecies, are classified as endangered.

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