Back in March, I wrote about the climate change chart that was slowly driving me insane, the decades-long record of global average sea surface temperatures (minus the poles) where 2023 and 2024 had ...
An Oct. 20 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) includes a graph that shows global wheat, rice and coarse grain production has increased along with global temperatures and atmospheric CO2 levels ...
Each summer, more and more lake beaches are forced to close due to toxic algae blooms. While climate change is often blamed, new research suggests a more complex story: climate interacts with human ...
As greenhouse gas emissions surround the Earth, they trap the sun’s heat. Because of this, the planet is warming up, and the ...
Do people see climate change affecting their area? A median of 74% across nine middle-income countries say global climate change is affecting the area where they live at least somewhat, while 24% say ...
With scientists warning that 2024 will likely beat 2023 as the hottest year on record, there is growing acknowledgment that climate change—and especially extreme heat—presents a top threat to global ...
In 1896, the Swedish physicist Svante Arrhenius realized that carbon dioxide (CO 2) traps heat in Earth’s atmosphere — the phenomenon now called the greenhouse effect. Since then, increasingly ...
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