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Kids born today are going to grow up in a hellscape, grim climate study finds
Exposure to extreme climate events will increase two to seven times more for those born in 2020 compared with those in 1960, a new study warns.
www.livescience.com
Kids born today are going to grow up in a hellscape, grim climate study finds #Science #EarthSciences #Climatology #ClimateChange #FutureGenerations #EnvironmentalImpact
The Oceans Are Going to Rise—but When? #Science #EarthSciences #Climatology #SeaLevelRise #ClimateChange #OceanScience
The Oceans Are Going to Rise—but When?
The uniquely vulnerable West Antarctic Ice Sheet holds enough water to raise global sea levels by 5 meters. But when that will happen—and how fast—is anything but settled.
www.wired.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The Oceans Are Going to Rise—but When? #Science #EarthSciences #Climatology #SeaLevelRise #ClimateChange #OceanScience
New Study Warns: By 2100, Coral Reefs Could Be Overtaken by Algae #Science #EarthSciences #Oceanography #CoralReefs #ClimateChange #MarineEcosystems
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November 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
New Study Warns: By 2100, Coral Reefs Could Be Overtaken by Algae #Science #EarthSciences #Oceanography #CoralReefs #ClimateChange #MarineEcosystems
Massive climate-induced earthquakes are brewing beneath our biggest cities. Are we prepared? #Science #EarthSciences #Seismology #ClimateChange #SeismicActivity #UrbanPreparedness
Massive climate-induced earthquakes are brewing beneath our biggest cities. Are we prepared? | BBC Science Focus Magazine
Climate change isn’t just warming the planet; it’s shaking Earth’s foundations
www.sciencefocus.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Massive climate-induced earthquakes are brewing beneath our biggest cities. Are we prepared? #Science #EarthSciences #Seismology #ClimateChange #SeismicActivity #UrbanPreparedness
New Study Reveals the Hidden Source of Rainfall That Could Make or Break Global Crops #Science #EarthSciences #Climatology #Agriculture #ClimateChange #Rainfall
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November 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
New Study Reveals the Hidden Source of Rainfall That Could Make or Break Global Crops #Science #EarthSciences #Climatology #Agriculture #ClimateChange #Rainfall
Africa’s Forests Are Flipping From Carbon Shield To Carbon Source #Science #EarthSciences #EnvironmentalScience #Forests #CarbonEmissions #ClimateChange
scienceblog.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Africa’s Forests Are Flipping From Carbon Shield To Carbon Source #Science #EarthSciences #EnvironmentalScience #Forests #CarbonEmissions #ClimateChange
Africa’s forests are now emitting more CO2 than they absorb #Science #EarthSciences #Climatology #ClimateChange #Forestry #CO2Emissions
Africa’s forests are now emitting more CO2 than they absorb
Logging and mining are destroying swathes of the Congo rainforest, with the result that African forests went from being a carbon sink to a carbon source in 2010 to 2017
www.newscientist.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Africa’s forests are now emitting more CO2 than they absorb #Science #EarthSciences #Climatology #ClimateChange #Forestry #CO2Emissions
Even Cooling the Planet May Not Save Your Coffee, Wine, and Chocolate #Science #EarthSciences #EnvironmentalScience #ClimateChange #FoodProduction #Sustainability
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November 28, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Even Cooling the Planet May Not Save Your Coffee, Wine, and Chocolate #Science #EarthSciences #EnvironmentalScience #ClimateChange #FoodProduction #Sustainability
Emergency response needed to prevent climate breakdown, warn experts #Science #EarthSciences #Climatology #ClimateEmergency #ClimateChange #Sustainability
Emergency response needed to prevent climate breakdown, warn experts
Scientists sounded the alarm on the dire consequences of continued inaction at a briefing in London, warning that we could be heading for "unprecedented societal and ecological collapse"
www.newscientist.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Emergency response needed to prevent climate breakdown, warn experts #Science #EarthSciences #Climatology #ClimateEmergency #ClimateChange #Sustainability
Warming and droughts led to collapse of the Indus Valley Civilisation #Science #EarthSciences #Archaeology #IndusValleyCivilization #ClimateChange
Warming and droughts led to collapse of the Indus Valley Civilisation
Hotter temperatures and a series of droughts in what is now Pakistan and India fragmented one of the world’s major early civilisations, providing a "warning shot" for today
www.newscientist.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Warming and droughts led to collapse of the Indus Valley Civilisation #Science #EarthSciences #Archaeology #IndusValleyCivilization #ClimateChange
This year’s UN climate talks avoided fossil fuels, again #Science #EarthSciences #EnvironmentalScience #ClimateChange #FossilFuels #UNClimateTalks
This year’s UN climate talks avoided fossil fuels, again
Why can’t world leaders acknowledge that fossil fuels are the leading contributor to climate change?
www.technologyreview.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
This year’s UN climate talks avoided fossil fuels, again #Science #EarthSciences #EnvironmentalScience #ClimateChange #FossilFuels #UNClimateTalks
Here are 3 big ideas to combat climate change, with or without COP #Science #EarthSciences #EnvironmentalScience #ClimateChange #Sustainability #EnvironmentalAction
Here are 3 big ideas to combat climate change, with or without COP
As action from the U.N.’s huge COP30 international meeting falls short, smaller groups are banding together to find ways to fight climate change.
www.sciencenews.org
November 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Here are 3 big ideas to combat climate change, with or without COP #Science #EarthSciences #EnvironmentalScience #ClimateChange #Sustainability #EnvironmentalAction
Changes in solar energy fuelled high speed evolutionary changes, study suggests #Science #Biology #EvolutionaryBiology #SolarEnergy #Evolution #ClimateChange
Changes in solar energy fuelled high speed evolutionary changes, study suggests
Cause of oxygen fluctuations that drove explosion of weird and wonderful inhabitants 500m years ago linked to changes in Earth’s orbit
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Changes in solar energy fuelled high speed evolutionary changes, study suggests #Science #Biology #EvolutionaryBiology #SolarEnergy #Evolution #ClimateChange
World's Mountains Warming Faster Than Lowlands #Science #EarthSciences #Climatology #ClimateChange #MountainWeather #GlobalWarming
World's Mountains Warming Faster Than Lowlands
Published at the Yale School of the Environment
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November 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
World's Mountains Warming Faster Than Lowlands #Science #EarthSciences #Climatology #ClimateChange #MountainWeather #GlobalWarming
NASA, NOAA Rank 2025 Ozone Hole as 5th Smallest Since 1992 #Science #EarthSciences #Climatology #OzoneHole #NASA #ClimateChange
NASA, NOAA Rank 2025 Ozone Hole as 5th Smallest Since 1992 - NASA Science
The ozone hole over the Antarctic was small in 2025 compared to previous years and remains on track to recover later this century. The hole this year was the fifth smallest since 1992, the year a landmark...
science.nasa.gov
November 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
NASA, NOAA Rank 2025 Ozone Hole as 5th Smallest Since 1992 #Science #EarthSciences #Climatology #OzoneHole #NASA #ClimateChange
U.N. Climate Talks End Without Plan to Wean Off Fossil Fuels #Science #EarthSciences #EnvironmentalScience #ClimateChange #FossilFuels #Sustainability
U.N. Climate Talks End Without Plan to Wean Off Fossil Fuels
Published at the Yale School of the Environment
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November 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
U.N. Climate Talks End Without Plan to Wean Off Fossil Fuels #Science #EarthSciences #EnvironmentalScience #ClimateChange #FossilFuels #Sustainability
COP30 keeps climate cooperation alive but hanging by a thread #Science #EarthSciences #Climatology #ClimateChange #COP30 #Sustainability
COP30 keeps climate cooperation alive but hanging by a thread
The 194 countries still taking part in UN climate negotiations reaffirmed the Paris Agreement following the US withdrawal, even if they agreed on little else
www.newscientist.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
COP30 keeps climate cooperation alive but hanging by a thread #Science #EarthSciences #Climatology #ClimateChange #COP30 #Sustainability
COP30 In Brazil Highlights Global Climate Challenges and Indigenous voices #Science #EarthSciences #EnvironmentalScience #ClimateChange #IndigenousRights #COP30
COP30 In Brazil Highlights Global Climate Challenges and Indigenous voices
A new study finds that fluoride is safe for kids’ brain—and linked to slightly better test scores.
www.scientificamerican.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
COP30 In Brazil Highlights Global Climate Challenges and Indigenous voices #Science #EarthSciences #EnvironmentalScience #ClimateChange #IndigenousRights #COP30
Worse Than Predicted: Coastal Waters Are Acidifying at an Alarming Rate #Science #EarthSciences #Oceanography #OceanAcidification #ClimateChange #EnvironmentalScience
scitechdaily.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Worse Than Predicted: Coastal Waters Are Acidifying at an Alarming Rate #Science #EarthSciences #Oceanography #OceanAcidification #ClimateChange #EnvironmentalScience
Broken Seafloor Mountains Become Earth’s Hidden Carbon Sponge #Science #EarthSciences #Geochemistry #CarbonSequestration #Oceanography #ClimateChange
scienceblog.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Broken Seafloor Mountains Become Earth’s Hidden Carbon Sponge #Science #EarthSciences #Geochemistry #CarbonSequestration #Oceanography #ClimateChange
U.N. climate talks end without agreement on phasing out fossil fuels #Science #EarthSciences #EnvironmentalScience #ClimateChange #FossilFuels #Sustainability
www.npr.org
November 22, 2025 at 10:00 PM
U.N. climate talks end without agreement on phasing out fossil fuels #Science #EarthSciences #EnvironmentalScience #ClimateChange #FossilFuels #Sustainability
Antarctica’s Fastest Glacier Collapse on Record Alarms Scientists #Science #EarthSciences #Glaciology #Antarctica #ClimateChange #GlacierCollapse
scitechdaily.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Antarctica’s Fastest Glacier Collapse on Record Alarms Scientists #Science #EarthSciences #Glaciology #Antarctica #ClimateChange #GlacierCollapse
The Climate Impact of Owning a Dog #Science #EarthSciences #EnvironmentalScience #ClimateChange #Sustainability #PetOwnership
The Climate Impact of Owning a Dog
My dog contributes to climate change. I love him anyway.
www.wired.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The Climate Impact of Owning a Dog #Science #EarthSciences #EnvironmentalScience #ClimateChange #Sustainability #PetOwnership
Earth’s Largest Natural Carbon Sink Is Being Thrown Off Balance, and Scientists Are Worried #Science #EarthSciences #EnvironmentalScience #CarbonSink #ClimateChange
scitechdaily.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Earth’s Largest Natural Carbon Sink Is Being Thrown Off Balance, and Scientists Are Worried #Science #EarthSciences #EnvironmentalScience #CarbonSink #ClimateChange
Undersea ‘storms’ are melting the ‘doomsday’ glacier’s ice shelf #Science #EarthSciences #Oceanography #GlacierMelting #ClimateChange #OceanImpact
Undersea ‘storms’ are melting the ‘doomsday’ glacier’s ice shelf
Spinning vortices of water trapped under the Thwaites glacier ice shelf account for 20 per cent of the ice melt. They’re expected to get worse as the world warms
www.newscientist.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Undersea ‘storms’ are melting the ‘doomsday’ glacier’s ice shelf #Science #EarthSciences #Oceanography #GlacierMelting #ClimateChange #OceanImpact
European Service Will Investigate Role of Warming in Weather Disasters #Science #EarthSciences #Climatology #ClimateChange #WeatherPatterns #DisasterResponse
New European Service Will Investigate Role of Warming in Weather Disasters
Published at the Yale School of the Environment
e360.yale.edu
November 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
European Service Will Investigate Role of Warming in Weather Disasters #Science #EarthSciences #Climatology #ClimateChange #WeatherPatterns #DisasterResponse