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Our global carbon budget to avoid permanently reaching 1.5 degrees of warming is smaller than we previously thought, new research says.
The climate crisis is making weather unpredictable. It’s hotter for longer and we’re seeing extreme precipitation changes. New research shows that, if we don’t lower emissions, climate change is going to boost water and power demand for cities facing these weather changes.
Global climate shifts this year are likely to disrupt food production throughout the world, straining food security worldwide.
Global climate extremes are adding up, and scientists are warning with renewed urgency that both natural and human systems are at risk of collapse.
Tree planting projects seem like a great climate solution—lots of trees can sequester lots of carbon that would otherwise be warming the atmosphere. But, surprise surprise, it turns out you can’t just plop any old tree into the ground and expect to reap environmental benefits, new research finds.
Mammals are halfway through their era on this planet. We’ve existed about 250 million years since mammals evolved on earth and we only have another 250 million left before most of the world is no longer habitable.
This summer, the United States roasted like never before. People got third-degree burns from simply falling onto hot pavement in Arizona, filling up all the beds in Maricopa County’s burn center.
The climate crisis is going to expose more of the world to both hotter weather and heavy rainfall. This could create dangerous flood conditions new research has found.
Hot weather is poised to kill many more Americans every year if current trends hold, recent research suggests. It estimates that the U.S. could see 200,000 temperature-related deaths annually by the end of the century in a bad but possible climate scenario—about five times the number of deaths seen today. We might…