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Scientists Warn 1 Billion People on Track to Die From Climate Change
2023-08-30 by in ScienceAlertThe fossil fuels that humanity burns today will be a death sentence for many lives tomorrow.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Fossil Fuels
Major 'Population Correction' Coming For Humanity, Scientist Predicts
2023-08-18 by in ScienceAlertA little over two centuries ago, in the year 1800, roughly a billion people called Earth home.
Tagged under: Predictions
Researchers: We've Underestimated The Risk of Simultaneous Crop Failures Worldwide
2023-07-05 by in ScienceAlertThe risks of harvest failures in multiple global breadbaskets have been underestimated, according to a study Tuesday that researchers said should be a "wake up call" about the threat climate change poses to our food systems.
Tagged under: Climate Change
Earth Could Feasibly Descend Into Chaos, Physicists Warn
2023-06-19 by in ScienceAlertThe impact of human activity on the Earth system could result in unpredictable chaos from which there is no return, physicists have calculated.
Tagged under: Collapse
New Ice Discovery Means Glaciers Could Melt Way Faster Than Predicted
2023-05-09 by in ScienceAlertA closer look at the junction where a Greenland glacier crunches into the ocean floor, known as its grounding line, has revealed less stability amid the shifting of tides – and therefore a greater rate of melting – than previously estimated thanks...
Tagged under: Oceans | Predictions | Ice Melting
Wildfire Smoke Stands to Deplete The Ozone Layer, Scientists Warn
2023-03-13 by in ScienceAlertThe smoke from recent wildfires is threatening to slow and even reverse the recovery of Earth's ozone layer – the same one that the world has worked so hard to heal since 1987.
Tagged under: Wildfires
Scientists Studying Earth's Trees Issue Stark Warning to Humanity
2023-02-09 by in ScienceAlertFrom soaring coastal redwoods to dinosaur-era Wollemi pines and firs that make the perfect Christmas trees, even our most revered woody plants are in an awful lot of trouble.
Tagged under: Trees
Termites Love Global Warming So Much That They May Make It Worse, Says Study
2022-09-25 by in ScienceAlertWhen we consider termites, we may think of the danger they can pose to our houses once they settle in and start eating wood.
'Flash Droughts' Are Striking Faster as The World Warms, Scientists Warn
2022-04-04 by in ScienceAlertMost people have heard of a flash flood.
Tagged under: Drought
Catastrophic Oil Spill From Abandoned Ship in The Red Sea Could Happen Any Second, Study Warns
2020-12-16 (or before) by in ScienceAlertIf the coral refuge of the Red Sea can survive local pollution, scientists think these reefs might be the last ones standing on a rapidly warming planet. But that's a big 'if'.
Tagged under: Coral Reefs
First Methane Leak Found on Antarctic Sea Floor Confirms Researchers' Fears
2020-10-11 (or before) by in ScienceAlertScientists have, for the first time, discovered an active leak of methane gas from the sea floor in Antarctica. It is a process that's likely to accelerate the process of global heating.
Tagged under: Methane | Climate Change | Antarctic
Ice Sheet Melting Is Perfectly in Line With Our Worst-Case Scenario, Scientists Warn
2020-09-09 (or before) by in ScienceAlertThe Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, which hold enough frozen water to lift oceans 65 metres, are tracking the UN's worst-case scenarios for sea level rise, researchers said Monday, highlighting flaws in current climate change models.
Tagged under: Oceans | IPCC | Climate Change | Antarctic | Ice Melting | Sea Level
40 Years of Data Confirm Hurricanes Are Getting Stronger. Climate Models Were Right
2020-05-27 (or before) by in ScienceAlertThe most powerful storms on our planet have grown substantially stronger, and almost forty years' worth of hurricane satellite imagery suggest a warming planet might be fuelling the changes.
Tagged under: Global Warming | Climate Change
"We Are in Deep Trouble": Carbon Emissions Break Record in Devastating Global Setback
2019-07-09 (or before) by in ScienceAlertGlobal energy experts released grim findings Monday, saying that not only are planet-warming carbon-dioxide emissions still increasing, but the world's growing thirst for energy has led to higher emissions from coal-fired power plants than ever befor
Tagged under: Coal
Last Month Just "Obliterated" Temperature Records as The Hottest June to Date
2019-07-05 (or before) by in ScienceAlertEurope's record-breaking heat wave last week, it turns out, was the emphatic conclusion to the hottest June ever recorded.
Tagged under: Climate Change | France
There Were Trees at The South Pole The Last Time There Was This Much CO2 in The Air
2019-04-04 by in ScienceAlertThere are a lot of different ways to look at our planet's warming climate – such as more extreme weather events, increasing levels of vegetation in the Arctic, and even shifting seasons.
Pioneering Review of 632 Ocean Studies Says Marine Food Chain Will Collapse
2015-10-15 by in ScienceAlertA world-first review of hundreds of studies on ecological change in the world’s oceans suggests a global alteration of the marine ecosystem due to increasing CO2 emissions will result in the collapse of the food chain as we know it.
Tagged under: Oceans | Collapse
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