When Did the Anthropocene Actually Begin?
[ad_1] Invasive species introduced by humans to new regions can also be markers, the scientists said. The inadvertent import of alien species in the ballast water of ships arriving in…
2022 Wasn’t the Hottest on Record. That’s Nothing to Celebrate
[ad_1] Asia had its second warmest year on record. On April 30, temperatures reached 120 degrees Fahrenheit in Jacobabad, Pakistan—unseasonably early for the region. When summer came around, heat waves…
Mass Climate Migration Is Coming
[ad_1] Unprecedented heat, drought, and wildfires caused chaos and misery across the once temperate British Isles this year, as climate change made its impacts felt beyond the mid-latitudes. Across the…
US Cities Are Falling Out of Love With the Parking Lot
[ad_1] This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. They are gray and rectangular, and if you laid all 2 billion of them…
Meet the Earth’s Lawyers | WIRED
[ad_1] ClientEarth’s interpretation of fiduciary duty has never been applied before, says Marjanac, but she is confident that will change. “Fiduciary duty is about prudent risk management. Human rights are…
Europe’s Plan to Become the First Climate-Neutral Continent
[ad_1] The European Union is sick of talking about climate change; now it wants to act. The world’s second-largest economy is attempting to become the first climate neutral continent by…
Nature’s Soundtrack Reveals the Secrets of Degradation
[ad_1] Digital listening is becoming the most powerful new scientific tool for observing and preserving our natural environment. From the Arctic to the Amazon, scientists are covering the globe with…
Climate Enforcers Need Hard Evidence. Friederike Otto Has It
[ad_1] But attribution science can do a lot more than tell us how climate change influences the weather. Otto wants to use her attribution reports to hold polluters to account…
Florida Is Fighting to Feed Starving Manatees This Winter
[ad_1] Few vignettes show how much human activity has affected wildlife more than the scene at Florida Power & Light’s plant in Cape Canaveral. Hundreds of manatees bask in an…
The Food Chain Should Be a Food Circle
[ad_1] In 2020, during the depths of the Covid-19 pandemic, concerns around food supply were high. This prompted big changes to the way some food is produced: There was a…
Alaska’s Arctic Waterways Are Turning a Foreboding Orange
[ad_1] This story originally appeared on High Country News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Dozens of once crystal-clear streams and rivers in Arctic Alaska are now running…
22 Things That Made the World a Better Place in 2022
[ad_1] It seemed as if the world was plunging from one crisis to another this year. Just as most countries broke free from the shackles of the pandemic, the horror…
El Niño Is Coming—and the World Isn’t Prepared
[ad_1] In 2023, the relentless increase in global heating will continue, bringing ever more disruptive weather that is the signature calling card of accelerating climate breakdown. According to NASA, 2022…
This Christmas, It’s ‘Firmageddon’ as Climate Change Hits Oregon
[ad_1] This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Scientists have discovered a record number of dead fir trees in Oregon, a foreboding…
Vertical Farming Has Found Its Fatal Flaw
[ad_1] In June, a vast new vertical farm opened on the outskirts of the English town Bedford. At a swanky opening event, members of the UK Parliament heard that the gleaming…
The Great Carbon Con Is Coming to an End
[ad_1] A year after COP26, the United Nations Climate Change Conference which took place in November 2021, the number of FTSE 100 companies vowing to achieve net zero emissions by 2050…
The Quest to Defuse Guyana’s Carbon Bomb
[ad_1] In March 2015, the Deepwater Champion rig was at work for Exxon Mobil, exploring for oil in the Atlantic Ocean 120 miles off the coast of Guyana, drilling below…
The ‘30×30’ Conservation Goal Divides and Inspires at COP15
[ad_1] But others question the mentality of those trying to enforce it—even if it looks good on paper. Lakpa Nuri Sherpa, who is from Nepal, and represents the Asia Indigenous…
Storytelling Will Save the Earth
[ad_1] Picture the world 4.4°C hotter than preindustrial levels by the end of this century. That was one of the IPCC’s sixth assessment report predictions for scenarios with either unabated…
Bio-Based Plastics Aim to Capture Carbon. But at What Cost?
[ad_1] It’s the year 2050, and humanity has made huge progress in decarbonizing. That’s thanks in large part to the negligible price of solar and wind power, which was cratering even…
Pink Snow Is Not a Cute Phenomenon—Here’s Why
[ad_1] The scientists used the device to record the snow’s albedo, a measure of what fraction of the sunlight beaming down is reflected back up. Red snow means lower albedo,…
Pliocene-Like Monsoons Are Returning to the American Southwest
[ad_1] Leaf waxes also predate climate records from Antarctic ice cores, which go back only about a million years and require a climate that can support ice. One study used leaf…
The Geological Fluke That’s Protecting Sea Life in the Galapagos
[ad_1] This story originally appeared in Hakai Magazine and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Pushed by climate change, almost every part of the ocean is heating up. But…
‘Gold Hydrogen’ Is an Untapped Resource in Depleted Oil Wells
[ad_1] Capturing or otherwise neutralizing the CO2 must be done safely, says Stephen Wallace, who runs a microbiology lab at the University of Edinburgh. But he adds that Cemvita Factory’s…
America’s Billion-Dollar Tree Problem Is Spreading
[ad_1] Fast-growing, drought-tolerant trees are slowly spreading across grasslands on every continent except Antarctica. Given how desperate we are to reduce carbon in the atmosphere, millions of new saplings sprouting…