A Polar Climate Ambassador Visits an Arctic Museum in Maine
Josie Brooks reflects on an exhibit at Maine’s Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, which explores Inuit food traditions, hunting, art and community.
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Our climate is changing rapidly – and our politicians sound increasingly surreal | Zoe Williams
On a panel show last week, everyone in the audience wanted to talk about the climate emergency, but the lines rolled out by a Tory...
World's oceans hit hottest temperature on record in August
Average sea surface temperature outside polar regions was 21.1C on Saturday, latest data findsThe world’s oceans were hotter than ever previously recorded on Saturday, according...
One of the World's 'Most Wanted' Lost Fish Is Rediscovered
On a vast network of rivers flowing through the jungles of Papua New Guinea, researchers have rediscovered the spinach pipefish, a relative of the seahorse,...
New Zealand moves to protect business with law curtailing climate litigation
New Zealand’s parliament has adopted a controversial new law blocking a whole avenue of climate litigation and shutting down its most advanced corporate lawsuit, which...
'Scared to death' evacuees escape fast-moving wildfire in Reno, Nevada – video
A fast-moving Nevada wildfire exploded to more than 15,000 acres (6,000 hectares) on Sunday, pushing from the Sierra foothills toward the centre of Reno and...
Indonesia's nickel production cuts are not enough to create a sustainable industry
Bhima Yudhistira Adhinegara is the Executive Director of the Center of Economic and Law Studies (CELIOS), an Indonesia-based economic think tank. Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat is...
This is not a natural calamity: it is being done to us knowingly
Global heating is an outrage, not a tragedy. We deserve the facts about the climate crisis – I choose the Guardian because it’s one of...
Can Burnham justify giving the go ahead to oil drilling? Yes, but these must be the conditions | Michael Jacobs
Carbon capture and storage could make the Rosebank site compatible with UK net zero commitments – if its owners are willing to pay the priceThe...
The Trump Administration Has Spent Billions Boosting Gas Exports, Spurring More Fracking
President Trump and federal agencies have used subsidies, tariffs and other deals to prop up purchases of LNG, with long-lasting consequences.By Nicholas KusnetzFor companies looking...
Tennessee helped usher in the nuclear age. It wants to lead the way again.
Luther ‘Sunny’ Miller is nearly 80, but in his younger days, he worked at Aerojet, a rocket and missile manufacturer located quite literally in his...
Living with drought has taught pastoralists lessons the world needs
Cattle are a central part of the identity of Andrew Msami’s Maasai community in northeast Tanzania. Herd size determines social position, and many people keep...
Living with drought has taught pastoralists lessons the world needs
Cattle are a central part of the identity of Andrew Msami’s Maasai community in northeast Tanzania. Herd size determines social position, and many people keep...
Even meteorologists are baffled by the Midwestern tornado season
Unprecedented. Record-breaking. Baffling. Experts are running out of ways to describe this year’s tornado season in the Midwest, which has unleashed more twisters on Illinois...
When oil sets the price
This is a guest post by Camilo Sánchez, a communications strategist working for Greenpeace International. We are living through a cost of living crisis that...
No fridge, no fans, just blocks of ice: improvising to survive in Pakistan's searing heat
With limited electricity and poor ventilation, many families in Nasirabad have little to shield them from temperatures of up to 50CAs the first light reaches...
Air conditioning push favoured over emissions cuts in five European nations, survey finds
Poll also finds sizeable majorities who believe it should be easier to install air con in homesGiven the choice, more people across five major European...
Riverine Export of Millennial and Decadal Carbon From the Amazon Basin
Abstract The riverine mobilization and export of OC from different compartments of the terrestrial biosphere such as standing biomass, organic‐rich surface soils and deep mineral...
What Lake Bonneville Left Behind
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Competing Effects of Elastic Heterogeneity and Viscous Flow on Interseismic Coupling at Cascadia
Abstract Interseismic coupling maps are important tools for estimating future earthquake hazard at subduction zones. Often interseismic coupling is estimated from surface velocities using a...
Seasonal Reversal of Polarity Dominance in High‐Current Cloud‐to‐Ground Return Strokes Over East Asian Midlatitudes
Abstract Extreme positive cloud‐to‐ground lightning over East Asian midlatitudes exhibits a spring–autumn double maximum hidden by the familiar winter climatology. Using 1,838,538 return strokes with...
A Subtle Atmospheric Shift Is Redefining Winter Hydrology on the Tibetan Plateau
Abstract Winter climate over the Tibetan Plateau has long been characterized by cold conditions that preserve snow and regulate downstream water supply through delayed melt....
How Modeling Assumptions Shape Predictions of Convective Mixing of Carbon Dioxide
Abstract We investigate how models of fluid properties and boundary conditions influence predictions of convective mixing in confined porous media, with relevance to subsurface carbon...
Stratospheric Temperature Adjustment Robustly Damps the State Dependence of CO2 Radiative Forcing
Abstract The equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) depends on background climate state, a phenomenon known as state dependence. Recent studies highlighted state‐dependent CO2 radiative forcing as...
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