Category: BUMMER

Warmer temperatures help speed up the maturation process that makes cyclospora parasites infectious to humans. With summers hotter and longer[…]

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a vast system of ocean currents that acts like a planetary conveyor belt carrying[…]

Climate change is altering the rainfall, vegetation, and habitat conditions that influence rodent populations boosting odds the pathogens these animals[…]

Oxygen is disappearing from oceans, lakes, rivers, and coastal waters at an alarming rate, weakening natural processes that help regulate[…]

Accelerating climate change makes wildfires bigger, hotter, and more destructive. Canada, with more than a quarter of the world’s boreal[…]

Lake Powell, the US’s second-largest reservoir, threatens to plunge to unprecedentedly low levels this year after a historically bleak snowpack[…]

Using geoengineering to cool the planet might create problems. Cloud seeding over the eastern Pacific and introducing aerosols into the[…]

Mangroves are among the most effective natural carbon stores, but their ability to lock away carbon could weaken as sea[…]

Alaska’s glaciers are highly sensitive to warming temperatures.  Every 1°C (1.8°F) increase in average summer temperature extends glacier melting by[…]

The most recent US dietary guidelines, with a sudden U-turn, suggests there should be doubling of animal protein intake. The[…]