A new study from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology has found that an increase in winter rainfall across the Arctic has led to more ice on the ground. According to the researchers, the shift is so […]
A team of researchers at the Department of Energy’s Berkeley Lab has investigated how the amount of fresh water that originates in the Sierra Nevada mountain snowpack will be affected by future global warming. After analyzing the […]
Crews have recovered the bodies of two neighbors who died while ice-fishing on a lake in central Minnesota. Morrison County Sheriff Shawn Larsen says the fishermen were reported overdue Sunday evening on Fish Trap […]
The backwaters of tropical peatlands snake through river islets of ancient soil, plant matter that’s been decaying for hundreds or thousands of years. It seeps into the water to turn it a black so […]
Seabird populations have been steadily declining over the last seven decades. In the past 50 years alone, their numbers have dropped by as much as 70 percent. A new study by scientists from the University […]
Alarming signals – arising from the Earth and from scientists – have prompted urgent calls for a decisive international response to climate change as leaders from nearly 200 nations gathered in Katowice, Poland yesterday, […]
A powerful magnitude 7.5 earthquake has prompted a tsunami threat warning for tiny islands in the south Pacific Ocean. After the quake shook near New Caledonia, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said tsunami waves of […]
Climate change often conjures up images of heat, drought and hurricanes. But according to the latest U.S. National Climate Assessment, released on Nov. 23, 2018, winters have warmed three times faster than summers in the Northeast […]
The UN has warned the 2015 Paris accord’s goal of limiting global warming to “well below 2C above pre-industrial levels” is in danger because major economies, including the US and the EU, are falling […]
The tough measures mean motorists will have to test their vehicles’ emissions, with the oldest and most polluting vehicles banned from the city centre. Drivers entering the controlled zone in breach of the rules […]
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