Category: BUMMER

With global warming, many expected ecosystems to change faster and faster. Instead, species turnover has slowed by about one-third since[…]

Over the past 30 years, the planet has lost about 50% of its coral. Heat stress, bleaching and mortality for[…]

Climate change, deforestation, and habitat loss are promoting increasingly uniform forests, where fast-growing tree species displace native trees. This reduces[…]

Canada’s record wildfire smoke in 2023 is part of a broader, continuing continent-wide trend toward smokier skies across North America.[…]

Many extreme weather events are becoming more common and more intense around the world. That includes longer heatwaves, more extreme[…]

The military is the world’s largest institutional emitter of greenhouse gas. The US military is by far the largest in[…]

Abnormal El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)activity can push far-flung regions simultaneously into dry or wet conditions. Dry extremes are associated with[…]

The Earth’s ocean stored more heat in 2025 than in any year since modern measurements began, equivalent to 37 years[…]

In 2024 the approximately 14 million cases of dengue fever set a global record, more than 7 million the previous[…]