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Model pinpoints glaciers at risk of collapse due to climate change

As climate change warms the planet, glaciers are melting faster, and scientists fear that many will collapse by the end of the century, drastically...

Climate change will more than double the risk of intense tropical cyclones by 2050

Human-caused climate change will make strong tropical cyclones twice as frequent by the middle of the century, putting large parts of the world at...

Europe saw warmest summer on record in 2021

Scientists say last summer was the hottest summer on record in Europe, with temperatures a full 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than...

Changes in vegetation shaped global temperatures over last 10,000 years

Follow the pollen. Records from past plant life tell the real story of global temperatures, according to research from a climate scientist at Washington...

Groundwater level threatens to fall in Germany due to climate change

Climate change directly affects groundwater resources. Groundwater levels in Germany threaten to fall in the next decades. This is the result of a study...

Keeping climate pledges limits warming to 2 degrees

If nations do all that they've promised to fight climate change, the world can still meet one of two internationally agreed upon goals for...

Inhospitable climate fosters gold ore formation

The Witwatersrand Basin in South Africa holds the world’s largest gold deposits across a 200-km long swathe. Individual ore deposits are spread out in...

The world is ‘perilously close’ to irreversible climate change. 5 tipping points keep scientists up at night

Five years ago, the United Nations' panel on climate change was charged with drafting a series of reports detailing its science, the effects on...

Simulating Earth’s changing climate: Why some models exaggerate future warming

The latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), released overnight, shows a viable path to cutting global emissions by half by...

No obituary for Earth: Scientists fight climate doom talk

It's not the end of the world. It only seems that way. Climate change is going to get worse, but as gloomy as the latest...

First-of-its-kind detection of reduced human carbon dioxide emissions

For the first time, researchers have spotted short-term, regional fluctuations in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) around the globe due to emissions from human activities. Using...

Fire and rain: West to get more one-two extreme climate hits

The one-two punch of nasty wildfires followed by heavy downpours, triggering flooding and mudslides, will strike the U.S. West far more often in a...

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