Europe Faces Record Heat for Second Month in a Row
Europe is sweltering through an intense heat wave that is setting temperature records in the U.K. and France. It comes on the heels of a...
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The hidden toll of wood pellet power
After the world’s largest producer of wood pellets built what it called a state-of-the-art biomass facility near Ruby Bell’s home in Faison, North Carolina, she...
Prof Philippe Ciais: The world's most highly cited climate scientist
Phillipe Ciais has spent almost four decades researching the planet’s carbon cycle – and the ways in which humans have been impacting its balance. Based...
Prof Detlef van Vuuren: The climate scientist most cited by the IPCC
Detlef van Vuuren is one of the world’s leading climate modellers and, as a result, a high-profile focus of his life’s work – the ‘RCP8.5’...
A super El Niño threatens disaster. Trump is handling it recklessly | Terry Garcia
The administration interrupted data streams that are key to forecasting. These systems should not be vulnerable to political whimsIn 1877, North Americans experienced an unusually...
Majority of datacenters are vulnerable to climate threats like floods and fires, study finds
Study warns AI datacenters are vulnerable to the climate hazards that their global greenhouse gas emissions bolsterAmid rising concern that the artificial intelligence boom is...
Scientists alarmed after two wildfires hit Greenland within a week
Researchers say it is ‘quite wild’ to see fires at such high northern latitudes happen so early in the yearScientists have expressed concern after two...
Women in Jamaica are opening eyes with climate photography
Raymond’s hands look worn from sourcing water for people in his community. In an image, his left hand is shown draped over a block of...
After backlash, CDC revises plan to retire research monkeys to Texas sanctuary
New call for proposals seeks alternatives, though critics say the agency’s original choice is still leading option
'Climate change is a form of oppression': the voices affected most by environmental crisis
In HBO documentary The Welcome Table, director Josh Fox brings together people from across the world whose lives have been dramatically altered by the climate...
The Invisible Infrastructure of Climate Resilience
Katharine K. Wilkinson’s new book explores the movement through climate grief and describes how to look inward with care and outward with curiosity and courage.By...
The Colorado River is vanishing — and the fixes are getting weird
The crisis on the Colorado River is simple: The seven Western states that border the essential waterway use more water than it contains. Chronic overuse...
UN chief says fossil fuel industry must cut methane for warming 'relief'
UN chief António Guterres called on Tuesday for stronger action to cut emissions of planet-heating methane, taking aim at the fossil fuel industry’s practices and...
Outrage rescued an important ocean research program. Crucial ones remain at risk.
Just a few weeks ago, the Trump administration said it was going to pull hundreds of scientific instruments out of ocean waters near the Pacific...
As the world warms, the risk of snakebites is rising
On a humid Thursday morning, the Ramathibodi Poison Center in Bangkok thrums with activity. Four staff members field roughly 130 emergency hotline calls every day....
Scientists open a million-year-old time capsule hidden beneath New Zealand
A cave in New Zealand has yielded fossils from a lost ecosystem that existed about 1 million years ago, including a possible flying ancestor of...
Europe heatwave live: UK issues rare red temperature warnings; French PM to hold crisis meeting after heat deaths
Temperatures could hit 38-40C in parts of England and Wales, smashing June record set in 1976; red alerts in France after 19 heat deathsTwo children...
Diagnosing Optimal Forcing of the Western North Pacific Anomalous Anticyclone in a Deep‐Learning Model
Abstract Deep‐learning weather prediction models have demonstrated skill in simulating large‐scale climate modes, but their physical interpretability remains a critical challenge. Here, we apply a...
Radiocarbon Evidence for the Springtime Injection of South Himalayas Biomass Burning Into the Urban Tibetan Plateau
Abstract Carbonaceous aerosols (CA) on the Tibetan Plateau (TP) accelerate glacial melt, yet decoupling local emissions from transboundary transport remains challenging. We conducted a year‐long...
Interstellar comet is unlike anything seen in our Solar System
Chemical signature of 3I/ATLAS suggests it formed early in the history of the Milky Way
Rising Waters Swamp Lake Naivasha
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Extreme heat: is the UK becoming a 40C country? – podcast
Met Office forecasters have issued a rare red weather warning for England, with temperatures potentially reaching 40C (104F) in some places. Europe is also dealing...
A thousand years old and 20 storeys high: tracking down Taiwan's tallest trees
The country’s biggest tree – named Heaven Sword of the Da’an River – is a carbon-storing behemoth hosting whole neighbourhoods of wildlife. But this and...
Global heat stress intensification and its expanding footprint on the human population
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 22 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02670-5The authors assess global changes in heat stress since 1950, considering daytime extremes, nocturnal heat and compound...
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