Compelling before-and-after satellite photos of climate change
Climate change has been linked to worsening wildfires, droughts, floods, hurricanes, cyclones, tornadoes and melting glaciers.
Internet Outages Could Spread as Temperatures Rise. Here's What Big Tech is Doing
Data centers run our personal and professional lives, so it's crucial that they keep working in a future of climate change.
Flooded Earth: How the global map and countries' coastlines will change by 2100
With a recent United Nations report finding 'no credible pathway to 1.5C in place', rising sea levels as a result of increasing global temperatures are considered inevitable by 2100.
Protecting the Biodiverse Fabric of Nature – A MAHB Dialogue with Ana Luz Porzecanski, American Museum of Natural History
Geoff Holland – What is the current status of the natural world on planet Earth? Ana Luz Porzecanski – The natural world, or whatever you choose to call the full biodiversity of life on Earth is declining at an unprecedented rate. The evidence for this is ove…
Skeptical Science New Research for Week #46 2022
Notables: Presence or absence of stabilizing Earth system feedbacks on different time scales Arnscheidt and Rothman confirm the stabilizing effect of carbonate geochemistry on Earth's climate, at least on "short" timescales. More provocatively: "We have shown…
Five things to know about how the SWOT satellite will look at the world's water
On Dec. 12, NASA will launch the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite into Earth orbit from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California atop a Falcon 9 rocket. The mission is a collaborative effort between NASA and the French space agency Center …
Restoring Mayotte's lagoon: When a newly born volcano meets human resilience
One of France's five overseas departments, Mayotte is the southernmost island of the Comoros Archipelago, located Indian ocean between Madagascar and the African mainland. The island is the centerpiece of a coral-reef structure that was created over hundreds …
We visited the fastest warming place on Earth. Here’s how the residents live with the constant threat of disaster
Svalbard is feeling the alarming effects of climate change, and it’s upending one of the world’s most important ecosystems.