A global map of the November 2017 LOTI (land-ocean temperature index) anomaly, relative to the 1951-1980 November average. Part of Antarctica is gray because data from some stations there were not yet

Clouds don’t act as a climate thermostat, and they’re not going to save us from global warming Climate deniers have come up with a lot of arguments about why we shouldn’t worry about global warming – about

IN BRIEF This year is poised to be remembered as one of the worst years on record for the severity of its wildfires. North America is counting the cost. The skyrocketing cost of putting out this year’s

By Kasha Patel, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center We live on a solar-powered planet. As we wake up in the morning, the Sun peeks over the horizon to shed light on us, blanket us with warmth and provide

The unprecedented downpour and severe flooding was also 15% more intense due to climate change, which is making weather more violent around the world Hurricane Harvey’s unprecedented deluge, which caused

HALIFAX, CANADA—In a sad reversal of fortune, the North Atlantic right whale is in deep trouble again after rebounding in recent decades from centuries of hunting. Recent population trends are so dire

As America is battered by climate-intensified weather disasters, Republican politicians are trying to slash climate research funding. The United States is great in many respects. But we certainly aren’t

IN BRIEF For years, the world has imported plastic waste to China and Hong Kong. In a recent development, China will ban the import of this waste starting in 2018. Full article in Futurism:

The assessment suggests that damage to forests can dramatically change how much carbon they can store Severely degraded forests, such as this one in Bolivia, are helping convert the tropics — sometimes

All of nature’s thermometers indicate a rapid rise in global temperatures. The US Global Change Research Program recently released a Climate Science Special Report. It is clearly written – an authoritative

A combination of short and longer-term events have conspired to spark a ring of fires that have dotted the Los Angeles area. The exhausted firefighters battling fires that have menaced Los Angeles wouldn’t

The Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE), launched in 2003, currently measuring total solar irradiance from space, observed a dip in the irradiance during intense solar flare activity in September

Decaying notebooks discovered in an abandoned research station contain a treasure trove of tree growth data dating from 1930s A cache of decaying notebooks found in a crumbling Congo research station has

Arctic sea ice appeared to have reached its yearly lowest extent on Sept. 13, NASA and the NASA-supported National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado Boulder have reported.

Climate change intersects with hurricanes by increasing storm rainfall, intensity, and surge A warming atmosphere causes more evaporation, meaning more water is available for precipitation. For every 1°F

The list of environmental problems that the world faces may be huge, but some strategies for solving them are remarkably small. First explored for applications in microscopy and computing, nanomaterials

In Brief The latest satellite data from NASA that showcases the effects of climate change paints a sobering picture. Here's how far we have come and how much work there is to be done. Full article in Futurism:

Trump administration dismisses claim by EU official that US has offered to re-engage with the deal The White House has denied reports that it planned to stay in the Paris climate agreement, saying its

Operation IceBridge is flying in Greenland to measure how much ice has melted over the course of the summer from the ice sheet. The flights, which began on Aug. 25 and will go on until Sept. 21, repeat

The lobby’s recommendations for environmental charities would set a dangerous precedent and could hamper any community group the government deems to be in conflict with its worldview Tens of millions of