Imagining what the world could look like without fossil fuels spurs people to action
Human activity has already warmed the planet by more than one degree Celsius, fueling forest fires, exacerbating floods, ...
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Climate change and human activity threaten plant diversity—can ancient pollen help predict the future?
Scientists from the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have compared several methods ...
Opinion
This Scientist Wants Us to Combat the Climate Crisis by Thinking Like a Woman
Friederike Otto, 42, is a climate scientist at Imperial College London, where she is best known for pioneering the new field of attribution science, in which researchers calculate in real time how ...
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Human pressure is changing biodiversity faster than we realize
Beyond the loss of species, the researchers also documented considerable shifts in the types of species that persist under ...
Research shows that a majority of Christian religious leaders accept the reality of climate change but have never mentioned it to their congregations
Churchgoers who think their religious leaders don’t believe humans are driving climate change are less likely to discuss it ...
AI model can predict lightning-induced wildfires with unprecedented accuracy
A new artificial intelligence (AI) model developed by Israeli researchers promises to revolutionize wildfire prediction, with ...
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Ground-level ozone pollution poses growing threat to planetary health
Kilometers above the Earth’s surface, the ozone layer protects humanity and all life from the sun’s harmful ultraviolet rays.
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How climate change is affecting this key water cycle, triggering more extreme weather
climate change also can cause more intense and sometimes damaging snowstorms. “All this stuff is related to warming, which we know with perfect confidence is almost all due to human activity ...
Daily Maverick on MSN4d
Human impact on nature is putting biodiversity under massive pressure
From the smallest microbes to the largest mammals, a sweeping new study has painted the clearest picture yet of how human activity is reshaping life on Earth.
India's climate crisis: Early heatwaves, Himalayan glaciers melting and a biodiversity collapse
A searing March heatwave, a vanishing spring and Himalayan glacier retreat points to a deeper climate shift now underway ...
Opinion
The power to save the planet is inside us all – how to get past despair to powerful action on climate change
With climate change, a high sense of self-efficacy strengthens a person’s willingness to reduce carbon emissions (mitigation) and prepare for climate-related disasters (adaptation). Studies confirm ...