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These Adorable Sea Creatures Play A Key Role In Tracking Climate Change

Several species of seals live around and in Antarctica and are experts at swimming through the vigorous ocean currents that make up the Southern Ocean.

By Lilian Dove and The Conversation
Science

Can We Fix Climate Change If People Don’t Believe In It? Science History Offers Hope

Strange as it may seem, early germ theorists could tell us a lot about today’s attitudes toward climate change.

By Ron Barrett and The Conversation
Science

Climate Change is Triggering an Unexpected and Fundamental Planetary Change

A surprising interplay between ice melt and physics means Earth’s days are getting longer

By Lauren Leffer
Science

This Map Shows How Climate Change Has Already Impacted Your Garden

A new plant hardiness map shows us how much the regional climate has changed already.

By Matt Kasson and The Conversation
just breathe

This essential mental hack fights Covid-19 lockdown blues — and climate change

Running in tandem with the climate crisis is another crisis: our mental health. Mindfulness and meditation could present a solution to both problems.

By Alex Tzelnic
Science

Look: Primate relative shows how ancient animals adapted to global warming

By Jennifer Walter
Science

Is climate change making hurricanes worse?

In some ways, yes

By JoAnna Wendel
Birds

Climate change is devastating one iconic east coast bird species

By JoAnna Wendel
Science

The race to save coral reefs from climate change

By JoAnna Wendel
Spider Boom

Nature's creepiest crawler is thriving as climate change warms the Arctic

Recent research reveals the latest example of spider behavior changed by warming temperatures.

By Nina Pullano
Science

84 years ago, a mild-mannered biker triggered a huge climate change debate

This discovery set off a fierce debate about climate change.

By Sylvia G. Dee
Storm Surge

Hurricane Ida and climate change: Scientists explain the deadly connection

Plus four things cities must do to prepare for future superstorms.

By Tara Yarlagadda
Science

How we can save the Earth from the worst of climate change in the next 10 years

30 percent could be set aside for conservation if we act now.

By Matthew Mitchell
Science

Climate change is robbing us of this one amazing part of nature

The benefits we gain from being in nature are likely to be changing too.

By Simon Butler and Catriona Morrison
Climate Crisis

Why are your allergies so bad? Pollen analysis hints at a manmade cause

People in certain regions may be more vulnerable to allergy spikes.

By Tara Yarlagadda
Innovation

How “mechanical trees” could solve a huge global warming problem

The first will start operating in Arizona in 2022.

By Klaus Lackner
Climate Crisis

Ecologists Find Unexpected Feedback Loops Could Complicate Fighting Climate Change

They could make it impossible to reverse.

By Jon Kelvey
Science

Climate change could make one household pest increase its path of destruction

In nature, wood-eating termites play a broad and important role in warm tropical and sub-tropical ecosystems

By Lucas Cernusak, Amy Zanne, Alexander Cheesman and The Conversation
Science

The 'zombie urchin' is a harbinger of doom

"We found they are empty on the inside."

By Anuradha Varanasi
Science

Futuristic Geoengineering Projects To Solve Climate Change Could Have Drastic Side Effects

Changing Earth’s complex and interconnected climate system may have unintended consequences.

By David Kitchen and The Conversation
Science

What caused major climate change in the past?

What caused climate change in times when there was no burning of fossil fuels?

By James Renwick
Science

7 Years Ago the World Agreed to Slow Down Climate Change — But a New Report Shows an Uneven Future

It may no longer be possible to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, but the climate future is still uncertain, a new report says.

By Tara Yarlagadda
Mind and Body

Twenty years of data reveal 4 hidden effects of climate change on health

We need to act now.

By Chloe Brimicombe
Science

Some Coral Reefs Could Weather Climate Change Better Than We Thought

Unprecedented ocean temperatures are triggering mass coral bleaching events across the world

By Liam Lachs and The Conversation
Science

Engineers built machines to scrub CO₂ from the air — but will it halt climate change?

Is air capture worth the time and money?

By Deanna D'Alessandro
Taxing

The one big thing Elon Musk says could tackle climate change

Elon Musk gave an endorsement for the idea of a carbon tax during the company's first-quarter 2021 earnings call.

By Mike Brown
Eat Up

Changing your diet in 3 key ways could fundamentally affect climate change

A pair of studies argues it's time to reconsider our eating habits.

By Nina Pullano
leaf peeping

Study reveals a counterintuitive way climate change is affecting fall

Falling leaves signal a change in seasons — and climate change.

By Tara Yarlagadda
Silent Spring 2

Will birds go extinct? Study reveals the impact of climate change

Meanwhile, small mammals employ a survival technique used since the age of the dinosaurs.

By Tara Yarlagadda
Culture

Now is a perfect time to talk to the climate change denier in your life.

Here's why.

By eMedia Patch, Laura McGuire and Geoff Beattie