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Category: climate change
Google-backed satellites for wildfire detection launch as smoke chokes US, Canada
Skip to content Peering through the smoke The FireSat program can spot wildfires that other satellites miss. Three of the […]
The report oil companies are worried about: Climate attribution science
New report says our ability to tie weather damages to climate change is improving. Climate change is being driven largely […]
Florida bans local governments from pursuing net-zero emissions goals
A new state law limits Florida communities’ aims to offset greenhouse gas emissions that are warming the global climate and […]
Feedbacks upon feedbacks: Rock weathering and the climate
“Lo and behold, we end up finding that we can explain this apparent discrepancy,” said Hilton. In other words, weathering […]
The “sad inevitability” of Europe’s heat wave
“There’s a sad inevitability to all of this, with scientists like me trotting out the same quotes year after year,” […]
US’s climate.gov site, taken down by Trump, relaunched by nonprofit
But the people who put together climate.gov didn’t go away. While the government didn’t hesitate to delete inconvenient climate information, […]
Have politics finally come for the National Academies of Science?
Skip to content A pending report on climate attribution may be setting the stage for conflict. The National Academies of […]
They call it stupid hot for a reason: Heat muddles animal brains
As temperatures rise, some creatures pick fights while others struggle to learn. On a blazing hot day in South Africa, […]
Forecasters predict wildfires, floods, severe heatwaves from incoming El Niño
In almost every case, the WWA researchers found “human-induced climate change has a much greater influence on the likelihood and […]