Climate Change

It's real. It's happening. It's accelerating. And it's our fault. Human activity — particularly the production of greenhouse gasses from fossil fuel emissions — is reshaping our planet, effecting rapid environmental change at a rate never seen before. Global temperature averages are creeping upward, seas are warming, rising and becoming more acidic, and extreme weather events such as droughts, wildfires, floods and powerful storms are more commonplace. Here's where you'll find the latest on the effects of climate change, and the measures that scientists, world leaders and innovators are taking to reduce our harmful impact on the planet and mitigate the damage already done.

Related Topics: Extinction, Global Warming, Deforestation, Heat Wave, Hurricanes

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Tropical Tectonic Collisions May Have Unleashed Ancient Ice Ages

March 14, 2019 | Article

Earth's icy periods may owe their existence to tropical mountains.
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Climate Change Could Make These Super-Common Clouds Extinct, Which Would Scorch the Planet

February 25, 2019 | Article

Carbon dioxide emissions could wipe out one of Earth's most common types of clouds. That's bad news.
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Could Earth's Oceans Ever Boil Away?

February 21, 2019 | Article

When will the end come for the oceans?
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Black Snow Is Falling from the Skies in Siberia, and It Is Toxic

February 15, 2019 | Article

Don't eat the black snow.
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52 Polar Bears 'Invade' a Russian Town to Eat Garbage Instead of Starve to Death

February 11, 2019 | Article

As climate change destroys their hunting grounds, some bears eat garbage to survive.
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European Slaughter of Indigenous Americans May Have Cooled the Planet

February 08, 2019 | Article

The Europeans killed so many indigenous Americans during the 16th century — through warfare and by causing disease and famine — that it actually cooled the planet during the Little Ice Age, a new study suggests.
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2018 Was 4th Hottest Year on Record, NASA Finds

February 06, 2019 | Article

And the past five years are, collectively, have been the warmest years in the modern record, hands down.
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Climate Change May Hurt Babies' Hearts

January 31, 2019 | Article

Extreme heat due to climate change might increase congenital heart defects.
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What Is Coral Bleaching?

January 31, 2019 | Reference

Nature's red flag is the eerie white glow of one of the ocean's most biologically rich ecosystems.
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Giant Void Hidden Under Antarctica’s Ice Threatens Vast Glacier

January 31, 2019 | Article

There's a giant void hiding under the Antarctic ice, and it's growing larger and more menacing by the day, a new study using satellite data finds.
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