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Cold Records Get Ignored, Cold records are being set at various places around the world, or in some cases no temperature change has been noted for decades.

Those who support legislative efforts like increased gas taxes tocombat global warming should come clean to the American peopleabout their proposals' likely impacts on Americans' wallets.

Driftwood travels thousands of kilometers from Siberia to Iceland, but climate change may kill the centuries-old oceanic conveyor belt.

Scientists already knew that where the western Amazon rainforest sits today was once a vast wetland, almost four times the size of Texas and periodically flooded by pulses of seawater. Now, a new study posits that the source of these pulses was most likely the Caribbean Sea, and that there was another — later and […]

“Marine heatwaves” (MHWs), also defined as discrete and sustained extreme oceanic warm water episodes, have been the subject of numerous recent studies. Such disasters have devastating effects on marine biodiversity and the regional fishing economy.

Scientists looked at the interconnection between Antarctic Silverfish and the WAP environment over a two-decade period.

Bjørn Lomborg wrote an opinion piece that is offensively wrong Bjørn Lomborg is the director of the conservative Copenhagen Consensus Center. He is author of two books that seem to recommend inaction in the face of climate change, Cool It, which appears to be both a book and a movie, and “The Skeptical Environmentalist.”

AZoCleantech looks at a study showing that only minor variations in the depths of the Tasmanian and Drake gateways are enough to cause a drastic reorganization in Antarctic surface water temperatures and ocean circulation patterns.

Some researchers hypothesize that ice sheets enveloped the earth during the Marinoan glaciation (650-535 million years ago) in what is dubbed the...

On planetary change and human health December 19, 2020MIT MIT anthropologist Amy Moran-Thomas reflects on the deep connection between planetary and human well-being. When anthropologist Amy Moran-Thomas first went to Belize to begin ethnographic research in 2008, she planned to chronicle human health concerns, focusing on diabetes. Then she learned that local diets contributing to such chronic conditions were changing, in part due to losses in ocean food webs, and kept hearing stories about how...