In sweltering Brazil, the worst floods ever killed dozens of people and paralyzed a city of about four million inhabitants. Voters and politicians at the world’s biggest elections in India are fainting from heat that can reach 115 degrees (46.3 degrees Celsius). A brutal Asian heat wave has closed schools in the Philippines, killed people … Read more
Climate models are among the most complex pieces of software ever written, capable of simulating many different parts of the overall system, such as the atmosphere or the ocean. Many have been developed by hundreds of scientists over decades and are constantly being added to and refined. They can span more than a million lines … Read more
Deep’s underwater habitat, Sentinel, will allow humans to survive 200 meters beneath the waves – Deep Beautiful, terrifying and unknowably vast, the world’s oceans are among the least understood places on our planet. There are, to say the least, things there we know nothing about – and because it is a fundamentally inhospitable place, exploration … Read more
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — For the eighth month in a row, the Earth was record warm in January, according to the European Climate Agency. That was evident in the northern United States, where about a thousand people were golfing in a snow-starved Minneapolis last month during what the state is calling “the lost winter … Read more
If you’ve been on YouTube lately, you may have come across someone claiming that wind and solar energy don’t work, that rising sea levels will help coral reefs thrive, or that climate scientists are corrupt and alarmist. These are all false and misleading statements taken from a handful of thousands of YouTube videos analyzed by … Read more
Earth broke global annual heat records last year, flirting with the agreed-upon warming threshold and showing more signs of a febrile planet, the European Climate Agency said on Tuesday. In one of the first of several teams of scientific agencies to calculate how exceptionally warm 2023 was, the European climate agency Copernicus said the year … Read more
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Ask most people what the annual U.N. climate talks are and the likely answer will be: “Huh?” Ask those who know and the answer may be, “Why should I worry?” The negotiations, called Conference of Parties, last almost two weeks and are in their 28th edition in Dubai. Delegates … Read more
A living copepod with egg sacs at 10x magnification. These ocean creatures quickly produce new generations, allowing for faster evolution. NNehring/E+ Getty Images Cold-blooded species, such as lizards, frogs and fish, are particularly vulnerable to climate change because they have a limited ability to regulate their own body temperature. Their ability to evolve in response … Read more