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MICROBIAL MISERY

Rising temperatures could push ocean plankton and other single-celled creatures toward a carbon tipping point, fueling more warming. Most of[…]

Photo: Boston Seaport Sea level rise from the melting of arctic ice appears to be accelerating. Levels rose about 9[…]

There’s currently less sea ice in the Antarctic than at any time in the forty years since the beginning of[…]

There’s now clear evidence that effects of global warming have reached the remote, high-elevation areas of central-north Greenland. The years[…]

An atmospheric river is a long, narrow region in the atmosphere that can transport moisture thousands of miles. They can[…]

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) will hear the FRRACS (Fore River Residents Against the Compressor Station) briefing on Thursday,[…]

Photograph: EKE The increasing energy in ocean eddies could affect the ability of the Southern Ocean, one of the world’s[…]

Photo: Tar sands I rarely find anything dealing with climate change that I’ve never heard of before and something so[…]

Photo: Paul Siewert Researchers have used carbon dots, created from human hair waste by breaking down the hairs and burning[…]

Photo: Kinal Shinde The Amazon rainforest now emits more CO2 than it can absorb, amounting to a billion tons a[…]