Climate Science

October 23rd 2020

This article was originally published by Yale Environment 360 and appears here as part of Canada's National Observer's collaboration with Climate Desk.

There is a paradox at the core of Earth’s unravelling firescapes.

This article was originally published by The Guardian and appears here as part of Canada's National Observer's collaboration with Climate Desk.

For the first time since records began, the main nursery of Arctic sea ice in Siberia has yet to start freezing in late October.

October 20th 2020

California is on the burning edge of climate breakdown. Record temperatures are teaming up with record droughts to turn the Golden State into a tinderbox. The megafires have followed, erupting with stunning speed and ferocity across forests, grasslands, rural areas and city neighbourhoods.

These megafires, each burning more than 100,000 acres, are rising exponentially — both in frequency and size.

Twenty-five percent (25%) of the Northern Hemisphere is permafrost. By all appearances, it is melting well beyond natural background rates, in fact, substantially!

September 9th 2020

This article was originally published by The Guardian and appears here as part of Canada's National Observer's collaboration with Climate Desk.

Microplastic pollution causes significant damage to populations of soil-dwelling mites, larvae and other tiny creatures that maintain the fertility of the land, research has found.

August 31st 2020

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

August 28th 2020

This story was originally published by The Guardian and appears in the National Observer as part of the Climate Desk collaboration