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Experts: How are climate scientists using artificial intelligence?
Walk into any major climate research lab today and you’ll notice something that would’ve seemed impossible ten years ago. Whiteboards covered in Python code, not just...
Five ways El Niño is affecting the weather around the world
Every few years, a band of unusually warm water stretches across the tropical Pacific. The atmosphere notices immediately. Farmers in Australia pray for rain that never...
El Niño-powered drought leaves Indonesian palm farmers high and dry as river recedes
The Kapuas River in West Kalimantan used to flow wide and brown past Suparman’s two-hectare palm oil plot. Now it’s a cracked spine of mud, and...
Prepare for the unthinkable’ warning over autumn flooding
Autumn in the UK used to mean crisp mornings, turning leaves, and the first excuse to dig out a decent coat. Lately, it also means watching...
‘Explosion of melt rates’: 20% of Swiss glaciers lost in five years
Switzerland’s Alps have shaped everything from its national identity to its water supply for centuries. The glaciers carved those valleys, fed those rivers, and drew millions...
A ‘super’ El Niño sets an ocean temperature record as aid groups prepare for the worst
Oceanographers watched the numbers climb through late 2023 and early 2024 with the kind of dread that comes from recognizing a pattern too familiar to ignore....
A super El Niño threatens our food system. Here’s how farms can prepare
Back in 2015 and 2016, farmers across the southern United States watched their fields flood while growers in Southeast Asia prayed for rain that never came....
World’s oceans absorbed record heat equal to 40 times annual global energy use
The ocean has always done the heavy lifting when it comes to absorbing the consequences of human activity. It soaks up carbon dioxide, moderates temperatures, and...
Analysis: ‘Super El Niño’ breaks ‘remarkable’ all-time record
The numbers coming out of climate science labs in late 2023 were genuinely unsettling. Researchers who’d spent entire careers studying ocean heat were running the same...
World leaders address climate crisis before UN meet amid record-breaking El Niño
The window for meaningful climate action is getting smaller by the year, and the world’s top officials know it. As the United Nations General Assembly convenes,...
EU to launch climate insurance scheme after summer of extreme weather
Europe has had a rough few years. Wildfires tearing through Greece and Spain, catastrophic flooding in Germany and Slovenia, droughts baking the continent’s agricultural heartland. And...
Emissions are Flatlining. So Why’s CO2 Rising at Record Speed?
Global CO2 emissions have barely moved in over a decade. Yet atmospheric carbon dioxide just hit record highs. Those two facts sit in the same headline,...
France wildfire forces thousands to flee
The images coming out of southern France are hard to look away from. Walls of orange flame advancing through bone-dry forest, families grabbing what they can...
Extreme Heat Isn’t the Only Climate Impact Shocking Scientists
When most people think about climate change, heat is the first thing that comes to mind. Record-breaking temperatures, deadly heatwaves, cities turned into ovens. And yes,...
Finding out how to survive Europe’s deadly heatwaves – before it’s too late
Berlin police weren’t spraying protesters last summer. They were hosing down overheated residents just trying to get through the day. In Rome, civil protection teams drove...
Climate Targets MISSED. What happens now?
The 1.5°C target has been the north star of global climate policy for nearly a decade – was baked into the Paris Agreement, repeated at every...
The Thwaites ‘Doomsday Glacier’ Is About To Collapse
Antarctica holds enough frozen water to reshape the world’s coastlines permanently. Among its many glaciers, one stands out as a focal point of urgent scientific concern:...
New Orlean’s is Sinking. Very Very Quickly. Could be Very Very BAD…
New Orleans is sinking – not metaphorically, not slowly in some abstract geological sense that won’t matter for a thousand years. It’s sinking right NOW. The...
