Category: BUMMER

The threshold for dangerous global warming will likely be crossed between 2027 and 2042 — a much narrower window than[…]

More plants and longer growing seasons in northern latitudes have converted parts of Alaska, Canada and Siberia to deeper shades[…]

Alaska’s beavers have expanded into many tundra regions, building more and more dams and creating numerous new water bodies. Because[…]

With low oxygen concentrations increasing worldwide in lakes and reservoirs, these ecosystems will produce higher concentrations of methane in the[…]

The economic costs of California wildfires in 2018 totaled more than $150 billion (about 0.7 percent of the entire U.S.[…]

Climate change could lead to irreversible sea level rise as temperatures continue to rise and the Greenland ice sheet continues[…]

Weather systems responsible for transporting moisture from the tropics to temperate regions in the Southern Hemisphere have been gradually shifting[…]

Growing use of nitrogen fertilizers in the production of food worldwide is increasing atmospheric concentrations of nitrous oxide, a greenhouse[…]

stock image Sag River emptying into Prudhoe Bay, Beaufort Sea  Increased heat from Arctic rivers is melting sea ice in[…]

Climate change may be causing hurricanes to weaken more slowly and remain destructive for longer. One study showed that 50[…]