In warmer climates, Greenlandic deltas have grown
Researchers at the University of Copenhagen has shown that deltas in Greenland, unlike most other deltas in the world, are growing.
Scale of human impact on planet has changed course of Earth’s history, scientists suggest
The significant scale of human impact on our planet has changed the course of Earth history, an international team of scientists led by the University of Leicester has suggested.
Warm waters tripled the amount of ice lost in these Antarctic glaciers — and that’s bad for sea level rise
Another glacier in Western Antarctica has been cracking from the inside out, producing another massive iceberg — four and a half times the size of Manhattan — this week.
Why this hurricane season has been so catastrophic
After Harvey, Irma, and Maria, a look at why this hurricane season has been so active.
In a Stunning Turnaround, Britain Moves to End the Burning of Coal
Britain is phasing out its coal-burning power plants, with the last one slated to be shuttered by 2025, if not sooner. It is a startling development for the nation that founded an industrial revolution powered by coal.
Hurricanes: A perfect storm of chance and climate change?
The succession of intense and deadly tropical cyclones that have barrelled across the Atlantic in recent weeks have left many people wondering if a threshold of some sort has been crossed. Is this chain of hurricanes evidence of some significant new frontier in our changing climate? The answer is mostly no, but with worrying undertones of yes.
Taking the Long View: The ‘Forever Legacy’ of Climate Change
Climate change projections often focus on 2100. But the geological record shows that unless we rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions, we will be locking in drastic increases in temperatures and sea levels that will alter the earth not just for centuries, but for millennia.
Hurricanes, Human Rights and Fiji
Stories of lives upturned are certainly tragic, but they also help explain why rising seas and extreme weather are linked to human rights.
Hurricane Irma leaves ‘unprecedented’ destruction in the Caribbean
Irma, dubbed the most powerful Atlantic storm in a decade, had maximum sustained winds of 170 mph on Thursday afternoon as it moved further away from the northern coast of Puerto Rico and over the Dominican Republic and Haiti.