Climate Science

08/02/25
Author: 
Laurie Adkin
When U.S. President Donald Trump says Americans do not need Canada’s oil and gas, I say, “all the better for us.” Photo by Shutterstock

Feb. 5, 2025

U.S. President Donald Trump threatens to place tariffs on “Canadian” oil and gas exports and poof! The climate crisis has disappeared from the political radar of Canadian politicians. Could we not try, for a minute, to keep our heads about us and remember the bigger threat that is poised to swallow us all up?

03/02/25
Author: 
Elizabeth Kolbert
Fighting the Pacific Palisades blaze: California is ‘a poster child of what we expect to see more of in the future,’ says Swain. Photo by Ethan Swope, the Associated Press.

Feb. 3, 2025

A global climate trend set the stage for LA’s fires, explains scientist Daniel Swain.

26/01/25
Author: 
Patrick Greenfield
Near Newtok in Alaska, melting permafrost is causing the Ninglick River to widen and erode its banks. Photograph: Andrew Burton/Getty Images

Jan. 21, 2025

Critical CO2 stores held in permafrost are being released as the landscape changes with global heating, report shows

A third of the Arctic’s tundra, forests and wetlands have become a source of carbon emissions, a new study has found, as global heating ends thousands of years of carbon storage in parts of the frozen north.

11/12/24
Author: 
Josie Garthwaite, Stanford University
Probability of peak warming in response to cumulative emissions. Credit: Geophysical Research Letters (2024). DOI: 10.1029/2024GL111832

Dec. 10, 2024

Researchers have found that the global goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels is now almost certainly out of reach.

10/12/24
Author: 
Lylla Younes
Densely populated areas with large concentrations of poverty — megacities like Cairo and Mumbai — are warming more slowly than urban centers in Europe and North America. Smog over Mumbai city, India. Photo by Christian Haugen/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

Dec. 10, 2024

This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration

18/11/24
Author: 
Climate and Capitalism
dry cracked ground
Nov.17, 2024

Disturbing research suggests nature is losing the ability to absorb greenhouse gas emissions

The extreme heatwaves of 2023, which fueled huge wildfires and severe droughts, also undermined the land’s capacity to soak up atmospheric carbon. This diminished carbon uptake drove atmospheric carbon dioxide levels to new highs, intensifying concerns about accelerating climate change.

13/11/24
Author: 
Emily Beament
The World Meteorological Organisation said the global average temperature for January to September 2024 was 1.54C above pre-industrial levels (Owen Humphreys/PA) (PA Archive)

Nov. 11, 2024

2024 set to be hottest year on record as temperatures breach 1.5C threshold

This year is on track to beat 2023’s record heat, the World Meteorological Organisation said.

This year is on track to be the hottest on record, the UN’s World Meteorological Organisation said as it issued a “red alert” over climate change.

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