Articles for tag: ClimateChange, ClimateScience, FloodingRisk, SeaLevelRise

A view of the ocean from a boat

How Soon Will the Seas Rise?

Suhail Ahmed

  The ocean is already on the move, and it is rising far faster than coastal maps, mortgage contracts, and seaside dreams were built to handle. For most of the twentieth century, sea level crept upward almost politely; now it is accelerating in ways that rattle even veteran climate scientists. What once sounded like a ...

The thermometer shows a very hot temperature.

7 Signs the Planet’s Weather Is Entering a New Age

Suhail Ahmed

  On some level, your brain still thinks the world is stable, cyclical, familiar: summers are hot, winters are cold, and storms are temporary visitors that eventually move on. But step outside that mental script, and the data tell a very different story, one where the entire planet’s weather engine is shifting gear. We’re living ...

Fossils Across Time: Inostrancevia’s Journey from Russia to South Africa Reveals a Prehistoric Crisis

Jan Otte

Far out in the dry badlands of South Africa’s Karoo Basin, fossils have been unearthed by paleontologists that rewrite the book on prehistoric survival and extinction. The fossils are those of Inostrancevia, a giant saber-toothed predator known to science only through Russian fossils until now. The tiger-sized gorgonopsian proto-mammal with reptilian traits somehow traveled an ...

Florida’s Dying Dolphins: A Warning Sign We Can’t Ignore

Suhail Ahmed

A toxic chain reaction fueled by fertilizer runoff and septic leaks is starving bottlenose dolphins to death. Scientists warn it’s a grim preview of collapsing coastal ecosystems. The Indian River Lagoon Massacre In 2013, Florida’s Indian River Lagoon became a graveyard for bottlenose dolphins. 77 dolphins washed ashore dead 8% of the local population their ...

Ocean Emergency: The Right Whale Is Dying—and It’s Our Fault

Suhail Ahmed

With only 70 breeding females left, North Atlantic right whales could vanish by 2035. Here’s why their extinction would trigger an ecological chain reaction and how we can still stop it. The Silent Collapse of an Ocean Giant North Atlantic right whales once hunted to near-extinction for their oil-rich blubber now face a deadlier threat: ...

dome near buildings at sunset

Why “Heat Domes” Are the New Climate Threat You Should Know About

Suhail Ahmed

  First it creeps in as a heavy stillness, the kind that makes sidewalks shimmer and tree leaves hang like wet cloth. Then the thermometer climbs day after day, nights refuse to cool, and the air itself feels trapped. That suffocating pattern has a name now lodged in our vocabulary: a heat dome. Scientists have ...

landscape covered by snow beside water

Glacier in Fast-Forward: The Surge That Moves Like a Slow Tsunami

Suhail Ahmed

  Some glaciers don’t just melt or creep; they lurch. In a matter of months, a quiet river of ice can accelerate from a snail’s pace to a thundering, valley-filling wave that bulldozes forward like a slow-motion tsunami. Scientists call this behavior a surge, and it shatters our intuition about how ice should behave. The ...

a stream running through a lush green forest

The Ancient Forest Discovered Beneath an Ice Sheet in Greenland

Suhail Ahmed

  It began with a drill biting into ancient ice and pulling up something no one expected: dark, fragile roots locked in a frozen time capsule. Beneath Greenland’s vast white shield, a long-buried landscape has whispered back to life, hinting at a time when trees, soil, and running water ruled where glaciers now reign. The ...