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Climate change, deforestation, and habitat loss are promoting increasingly uniform forests, where fast-growing tree species displace native trees. This reduces[…]
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Climate change, deforestation, and habitat loss are promoting increasingly uniform forests, where fast-growing tree species displace native trees. This reduces[…]
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Canada’s record wildfire smoke in 2023 is part of a broader, continuing continent-wide trend toward smokier skies across North America.[…]
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Many extreme weather events are becoming more common and more intense around the world. That includes longer heatwaves, more extreme[…]
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The military is the world’s largest institutional emitter of greenhouse gas. The US military is by far the largest in[…]
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Abnormal El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)activity can push far-flung regions simultaneously into dry or wet conditions. Dry extremes are associated with[…]
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The Earth’s ocean stored more heat in 2025 than in any year since modern measurements began, equivalent to 37 years[…]
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In 2024 the approximately 14 million cases of dengue fever set a global record, more than 7 million the previous[…]
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The threat of death from wildfire smoke is so great that any official tally of people killed in a fire[…]
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All of the most populous U.S. cities are sinking—some at different rates in different spots, or sinking in some places[…]
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Oceanic conditions that churn up the strongest hurricanes and typhoons are heating up in the North Atlantic and Western Pacific,[…]
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