The Earth’s climate system is shifting into uncharted territory. You’ve likely noticed the headlines about record temperatures and extreme storms, but what’s happening now goes far beyond isolated weather events. Scientists worldwide are documenting fundamental changes that signal we’re witnessing the emergence of a dramatically different climate era. When you examine the data from 2024, ...
You might have noticed the weather feels different lately. The storms are stronger, the temperatures more extreme, and the patterns less predictable than what your grandparents described. What you’re witnessing isn’t just random variation or a particularly bad year. Instead, you’re seeing the early signs of a fundamental shift in Earth’s climate system that scientists ...
The ocean operates like a massive conveyor belt, constantly circulating heat and moisture around the globe to regulate our planet’s climate. These powerful currents have kept temperatures stable across different regions for thousands of years. Yet scientists are now observing dramatic changes in ocean circulation patterns that could fundamentally alter weather systems across the United ...
Scientists are tracking dramatic changes beneath the Atlantic Ocean’s surface that could reshape how Americans experience weather for decades to come. A warming climate doesn’t just affect dry land – it affects the ocean, too. For years, Earth’s ocean has acted as a heat sink for climate change: A large part of the heat generated ...
Scientists have been trying to figure out what a strange patch of cold water in the North Atlantic is for years. Climate change has caused the rest of the world’s oceans to steadily warm, but the North Atlantic Warming Hole has cooled by up to 0.5°F (0.3°C) over the past century, which was not what ...
With her hull straying against the pressure, the Norwegian icebreaker Kronprins Haakon floats through a frozen labyrinth of ice floes eight hundred kilometers north of the Arctic Circle. A brief glimpse of dawn in the endless darkness of the polar night, the sky glows a terrible purple. A group of scientists bracing against -30°C winds ...
Imagine leaving and struggling to breathe not from pollution but from the air itself disappearing. Though headlines mostly feature climate change, a far more existential crisis looms: the oxygen of Earth is vanishing. Not in decades, not in centuries, but over billions of years our planet will choke. Scientists warn that Earth will become uninhabitable ...
Earth’s silent regulator in heat absorption, oxygen generation, and life sustaining action has always been the ocean. But under the waves something concerning is occurring: sunlight is disappearing. According to a new study, over the past two decades, 21% of the surface waters of the ocean have darkened; some areas have lost light penetration over ...
The ground is actually blowing up in the far-off, frozen Yamal Peninsula of Siberia. Massive craters some as wide as 70 meters (230 feet) and deep enough to swallow a high-rise have started to show up without warning in 2014, leaving gaping wounds in the permifrost. These are violent, explosive events, hurling bits of earth ...
New research has revealed that achieving net zero emissions will not eliminate change uniformly across the globe. While reducing greenhouse gas emissions is essential for stabilizing global temperatures, different regions will experience varying climate effects even after net zero is reached. Scientists have used climate models to predict how temperature extremes will evolve, highlighting the ...
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