A Recurring Weather Phenomenon Drives Nearly 6 Million Children Into Severe Hunger
A single bad El Niño can drive almost 6 million children into severe hunger, a new study has found. This is up to three times as many children that have…
Sea Level Rise Will Hugely Differ if We Can Limit Global Warming, New Study Warns
Even if humanity beats the odds and caps global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, seas will rise for centuries to come and swamp cities currently home to…
AI Analysis of 100,000 Climate Studies Reveals How Massive The Crisis Already Is
Some problems are so big, you can’t really see them. Climate change is the perfect example. The basics are simple: the climate is heating up due to fossil fuel use.…
Dropping Oxygen Will Eventually Suffocate Most Life on Earth
For now, life is flourishing on our oxygen-rich planet, but Earth wasn’t always that way – and scientists have predicted that, in the future, the atmosphere will revert back to…
Our Need For Water Is Tapping Ancient Underground Wells. How Long Can They Last?
Communities that rely on the Colorado River are facing a water crisis. Lake Mead, the river’s largest reservoir, has fallen to levels not seen since it was created by the…
Antarctic Ice Reveals Human Impact on The Atmosphere Long Before Industrial Fires
Our planet’s air during the preindustrial period was not quite as pristine as you might think, according to new research out of Antarctica. An analysis of six ice core drillings…
UN Warns Over 5 Billion People Could Struggle to Access Water by 2050
More than five billion people could have difficulty accessing water in 2050, the United Nations warned Tuesday, urging leaders to seize the initiative at the COP26 summit. Already in 2018,…
Extreme Heat Exposure in Cities Has Tripled in Just a Few Decades, Scientists Warn
Extreme urban heat exposure has dramatically increased since the early 1980s, with the total exposure tripling over the past 35 years. Today, about 1.7 billion people, nearly one-quarter of the…
Giant, Catastrophic Oil Spill in California Ranks as One of The Worst in Decades
A huge oil spill is killing wildlife and threatening California’s beaches on Monday, in what officials said amounted to an “environmental catastrophe”. Birds and fish had begun washing up on…
Scary Weather Will Be Inevitable if The Jet Stream Keeps Moving
The polar jet stream circles the northern hemisphere, swirling up to nine miles above our heads like a curvy, ethereal crown on the planet. This band of strong wind separates…
Two Decades of Data Show That Earth Is ‘Dimming’ as The Planet Warms Up
Earth is getting dimmer, researchers have found, and climate change is likely to blame. As the oceans get hotter, they appear to be generating fewer bright clouds, which means less…
Children Born Today Are in For a Life Full of Natural Disasters, Unless We Act Now
Younger generations are going to grow up in a very different world to that of their parents – and through no fault of their own. Compared to babies born in…
By 2500, Earth Will Be Alien to Humans if We Don’t Act Now, Scientists Warn
There are many reports based on scientific research that talk about the long-term impacts of climate change – such as rising levels of greenhouse gases, temperatures and sea levels –…
Ice Melt at The Poles Is Now Causing Hidden Changes to Earth’s Crust on a Huge Scale
As the polar ice sheets melt, the process is not just raising sea levels – it’s also warping the underlying surface of Earth, a new study reveals, and some of…
We May Finally Know What Caused That Huge Ozone Hole in The Arctic Last Year
The unusually large hole that opened up in the ozone layer over the Arctic last year seems to have been triggered by record-breaking winter temperatures in the North Pacific ocean,…