Climate

Climate

Extreme heat taxes the body in many ways. Here’s how

Climate change is bringing longer, humid heat waves and hotter nights. Here's how our bodies try to beat the heat and what happens when they can't.

Health & Medicine

Climate change puts children’s health at risk now and in the future

Heat waves, wildfires and other climate-related effects on the environment are particularly hard on children’s physical and mental health.

Climate

July 2023 nailed an unfortunate world record: hottest month ever recorded

Roughly 6.5 billion people, or 4 out of 5 humans, felt the touch of climate change via hotter temperatures during July.

Climate

Cow poop emits climate-warming methane. Adding red algae may help

Adding a type of methane-inhibiting red algae directly to cow feces cut down methane emission from the poop by about 44 percent, researchers report.

Climate

Here’s how much climate change increases the odds of brutally hot summers

Climate change made 2023’s record-breaking heat waves in the United States, Mexico, China and southern Europe much more likely, new simulations show.

Climate

What’s causing this summer’s extreme heat waves?

Climate change and meandering jet streams are fomenting this summer’s extreme waves of heat.

Climate

Last week was the hottest ever recorded — here’s why we keep smashing records

Global temperature records are being shattered as El Niño and climate change combine to push the Earth into uncharted territory, researchers say.

Climate

Canada’s Crawford Lake could mark the beginning of the Anthropocene

The mud of a Canadian lake holds an extremely precise record of humans’ influence on Earth. But the Anthropocene isn’t an official geologic epoch yet.

Materials Science

This ‘thermal cloak’ keeps spaces from getting either too hot or cold

A new thermal fabric prototype could help keep cars, buildings and other spaces a comfortable temperature during heat waves while reducing CO₂ emissions.

Ecosystems

This seagrass is taking over the Chesapeake Bay. That’s good and bad news

Higher water temperatures are wiping out eelgrass in the Chesapeake Bay and weedy widgeongrass is expanding. Here’s why that seagrass change matters.

Climate

Antarctic sea ice has been hitting record lows for most of this year

Since hitting a record low minimum back in February, the amount of Antarctic sea ice has stayed well below normal all year.

Climate

The snow forest of North America may be about to shrink

From 2000 to 2019, the boreal forest’s northern boundary didn’t move while southern tree cover thinned due to climate change, wildfires and logging.