If average global temperatures rise by 2 degrees Celsius, the risk of food supply instabilities “are projected to be very high,” according to the report.
Even as mercury levels in the air and water go down, levels of the neurotoxin have gone up in certain fish.
The proposed vessel would ply polar waters as part of plan to curb climate change, but scientists have their doubts.
Efforts are underway to grow towering new redwood forests, cloned from existing trees, that can sequester massive amounts of carbon.
Ravaged by drought, farmers in rural Honduras and Guatemala live on the edge of hunger.
The freak storm that dumped more than 3 feet of hail on Guadalajara, Mexico, on Sunday left locals and people around the world wondering how such an extraordinary event could hit an area that just days before had been basking in warm, sunny summer weather.
Some immediately pointed the finger at climate change. “Hail more than a meter high, and then we wonder if climate change exists,” tweeted Enrique Alfaro Ramírez, governor of Jalisco, the state in southwestern Mexico where Guadalajara is.
But scientists aren’t so sure of the link.
A new survey of sea life in the Pacific Ocean suggests that some endangered sea turtles are making a comeback.
The survey showed that populations of green sea turtles along dozens of coral reefs in waters around Hawaii and other nearby regions either remained stable or increased from 2002 to 2015.
What happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay in the Arctic. And scientists studying global warming are trying to learn why.
Al Roker headed to Utqiagvik, Alaska, considered ground zero for climate change, to learn from the scientists gathering critical information there that could help save the Earth.
Thousands of students across the U.S. were expected to stage school walkouts on Friday, joining peers around the world to demand action on climate change.
Max Prestigiacomo, who is organizing a demonstration in Madison, Wis., said there was a real disconnect between what was being taught in the classroom — that climate change poses an existential threat — and how politicians were reacting.
"The political climate in the States right now is doing nothing," said Prestigiacomo, 17. "They're bargaining with our future."
Warmer and more acidic oceans will cause populations of phytoplankton to decline, which could affect the water's hue and impact nearly every kind of fish that we eat.
Scientists have discovered an enormous void under an Antarctic glacier, sparking concern that the ice sheet is melting faster than anyone had realized — and spotlighting the dire threat posed by rising seas to coastal cities around the world, including New York City and Miami.
The cavity under Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica is about six miles long and 1,000 feet deep — representing the loss of 14 billion tons of ice.
For those trying to understand the link between the polar vortex and the freakishly cold weather that gripped the Midwest in recent days, a new NASA video should help.
The brief animation, created from data collected from Jan. 20 to Jan. 29 by the space agency’s Aqua satellite, shows a shape-shifting mass of frigid Arctic air dipping down to the lower latitudes to bring record-breaking low temperatures. In addition to forcing schools to shut down and disrupting air travel, the chilly weather has been blamed for several deaths.
Humanity is just two minutes from Armageddon, the same as last year but still the closest the world has inched to symbolic doom since 1953, at the height of the Cold War.
That was the bleak outlook from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the nonprofit organization that oversees the Doomsday Clock — the symbolic timepiece that represents humanity’s perceived proximity to a human-caused apocalypse.
Here’s what to eat to save yourself and the planet: less meat and sugar, more fruits and vegetables, a global commission of experts says in a new report out Wednesday.
If everyone on the planet switched to a diet 50 percent lower in red meat and sugar than the average western diet, and much heavier in fruits and vegetables, about 11 million fewer people would die prematurely every year, the commission calculates.
NASA’s view from space shows our planet is changing, but to really understand the nitty-gritty of these shifts and what they mean for our future, scientists need a closer look. See more here.
NASA's view from space shows our planet is changing, but to really understand the nitty-gritty of these shifts and what they mean for our future, scientists need a closer look.
For the past eight years, Operation IceBridge has been conducting aerial surveys of polar ice. See more here.
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There's a scary answer for why Siberia is turning into Swiss cheese: Mother Nature has gas, so to speak, and we gave it to her.