A seismic survey of Thwaites’ icy underbelly shows the Antarctica glacier may be snagging on tall rises in land. That could help slow global sea level rise.
COP28 ended with a historic climate agreement to begin moving away from fossil fuels, but stopped short of mandating phasing them out.
About 1 in 3 marine heat waves occur below the surface, a new study reports, suggesting these harmful events are more common than previously thought.
Here’s one takeaway from COP28: Deep cuts to methane are essential to meet the Paris Agreement goals. That’s still possible.
The effects of climate change were on clear display in 2023 as records not only broke, but did so by surprising amounts.
The report’s release, which coincides with COP28, weighs the ethics of using technological interventions to mitigate climate change.
Removing methane from the atmosphere requires different technology from removing carbon dioxide. Scientists are taking on the challenge.
Siberian reindeer herders and scientists are working together to figure out how to predict rain-on-snow events that turn tundra into deadly ice.
The planet’s average temperature was about 1.3 degrees Celsius higher than the 1850–1900 average, a new report finds.
Rising seas usually spell trouble for mangroves. But the first survey of the Howick Islands in 50 years finds that mangroves there have expanded a lot.
