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The hardiest species on earth were boiled alive in June; we can't stay alive...
Every morsel of food, every sip of water, the air we breathe is the result of work done by other species. Nature gives us everything we need to survive. Without them, there is no us. Enric Sala, Marine...
View ArticleClimate Brief: The people of Siberia are choking on acrid wildfire smoke due...
It’s a hell of a summer in Siberia’s coldest region. Since May, the Sakha Republic has been forced to endure caustic smoke from wildfires consuming the vast Tiaga forests and bogs of carbon-rich peat....
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Climate Brief: California hydroelectric plant shuts down from low water...
California has 46% of its land area in exceptional drought. Along with Idaho, Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, Oregon, and Utah, California is entirely in drought. Hydroelectric power provides 13% of the...
View ArticleClimate Brief: South America's Paraná River has succumbed to dangerous drought.
One of the most important rivers in South America has dried up, and scientists blame climate change. The Paraná River and associated aquifers provide water for 40 million people in Brazil, Paraguay,...
View ArticleThe Arctic Ocean turns bluer as high winds blow the old sea ice into the melt...
The sun shines for twenty-four hours a day in the Arctic summer. The more ocean without snow-covered sea ice means that the ocean absorbs 90% of the solar heat. The Arctic has been seeing enormous...
View ArticleClimate Brief: Warm temperatures and heavy rainfall will hammer Greenland...
“My starting point today is the growing threat of climate change. Tackling this challenge is crucial if we want to ensure that the Arctic remains the place it is today. But the issue is of global...
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The toe of Italy records Europe's all-time high-temperature record at 119.8...
Reporting on the IPCC grim report has already faded within 24 hours from the news headlines, but climate change doesn’t care about sapiens lack of interest in their collective demise. It will only get...
View ArticleHaiti has not yet recovered from the 2010 earthquake; minutes ago, a 7.2...
Update 1 - 11:15: Tsunami waves have entered parts of Haiti. Pray that the waves will be small but they could be at least 9 feet tall. tweet of visual evidence embedded somewhere in the diary.Update 2...
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Wildfire smoke may have created a new climate feedback loop that reduces...
A new study from the American Geophysical Union has found that small particles in the smoke from wildfires in the western United States condense and act as nuclei, affecting how water droplets in...
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Climate Brief: Climate Change has driven the Arctic's threatened 'Great...
One of the world's most biologically productive regions on earth is the largest open ocean area in the northern hemisphere. This open area of the Arctic ocean has historically been surrounded by sea...
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The middle-east transitioning from the goldilocks zone to uninhabitable due...
The day the soil will become unfarmable is not far away. Kiomars Bujibli, Iranian farmerCNN has an interesting read on the dramatic issue of a climate crisis unfolding in the middle east. Currently,...
View ArticleDeciduous forests can help cool the planet by encouraging cloud formation,...
“We show that if one considers that clouds tend to form more frequently over forested areas, then planting trees over large areas is advantageous and should be done for climate purposes. Amilcare...
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Rapidly melting ice from the poles glaciers is moving the earth's crust...
Interesting follow-up from Harvard on how glaciers move the crust of the earth horizontally after being liberated of the burden of the weight of glacial ice during melting.From Nature:As the...
View ArticleRussia declares an interregional state of emergency as wildfires threaten...
The massive wildfires that have plagued Russia and Siberia are now larger than all the wildfires worldwide combined. Drought and relentless heatwaves with lightning are igniting the fires due to global...
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The world's first famine due solely to climate change is unfolding in...
Madagascar is an island nation off the east coast of Africa. It has always had droughts and famine; we don’t hear much about them because the people that live there are poor and have black skin; their...
View ArticleThe melting of the Doomsday Glacier by global heating is getting a boost from...
A study published in the journal Nature has found that not only is the upwelling of warm water carving cavities into the marine extension of Thwaites Glacier which is causing the front of the ice...
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Sobering: California threw everything they had at stopping the S Lake Tahoe...
California has 13 large wildfires burning in the state. These fires occur due to extreme heat and extreme drought brought about by human consumption of fossil fuels. The heat and drought desiccate the...
View ArticleNASA's Earth Observatory finds that climate change has driven wildfires to...
This study has confirmed what westerners have long feared: wildfires have become intense, larger, and burning areas upslope in the region's mountainous areas that have not burned before. These areas...
View ArticleIcebergs cemented with sea ice no longer inhibit iceberg calving at Ilulissat...
A new study has found that a mix of sea ice and icebergs bonded together (ice mélange) in the front of the tidewater Jakobshavn Isbræ, commonly known asIluissiatt glacier (which literally means...
View ArticleAnimals begin to "shape shift' in response to climate change, a new study finds.
The pain of other living things is seldom humanly felt, their interests seldom considered, their intrinsic values discounted. Carl Safina, Yale Climate 360A new study out of Australia has found that...
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