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A firefighter in the Xingu Indigenous Territory.

World’s record heat is worsening air pollution and health in Global South

Simrin Sirur (with Orji Sunday and Karla Mendes) 13 Jan 2025
A moray eel in the coral reefs of the Daymaniyat Islands, Oman.

2024’s top ocean news stories (commentary)

Alfredo Giron, Ana K. Spalding, Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor, Asha de Vos, Cinda P. Scott, Josheena Naggea, Juan José Alava, Olivia Milloway, Rita Maria el Zaghloul 8 Jan 2025

How the Sahel junta is responding to climate change amid political isolation

Robert Bociaga 27 Dec 2024
The world’s oceans naturally absorb vast amounts of atmospheric carbon dioxide.

Electrochemical removal of ocean CO2 offers potential — and concerns

Sean Mowbray 20 Dec 2024
Residents from Gwadar look on the sipping development at the coast.

Balochistan’s Gwadar city sits at the crossroads of climate and conflict

Waqas Alam Angaria 20 Dec 2024

Climate change fuels African floods that hit harder in vulnerable regions

Fanta Mabo 13 Dec 2024
The Missouri River floods Nebraska’s Offutt Air Force Base in March 2019. Photo credit: Rachelle Blake on Wikimedia Commons

Eastern U.S. floods could persist longer toward the end of the century

Jenna Ahart 4 Dec 2024
Snow and cold at the original CarbFix injection well in Iceland during late 2011 made working conditions at this field site more challenging.

Storing CO2 in rock: Carbon mineralization holds climate promise but needs scale-up

Ruth Kamnitzer 3 Dec 2024
Killer whales swim in the icy Arctic waters that are newly open to them. Photo credit: Maha Ghazal

Killer whales have found new homes in the Arctic Ocean, potentially reshaping marine ecology

Caroline Hemphill 3 Dec 2024
Cutting a tree with a chainsaw.

Land use change impacting seven planetary boundaries, solutions urgent, say scientists

Sean Mowbray 2 Dec 2024
Sunset and a Maersk container ship.

Shipping emissions reduction sheds light on marine cloud geoengineering

Claire Asher 13 Nov 2024
A sea turtle

How the oceans fared at the COP16 biodiversity conference in Colombia

John Cannon 8 Nov 2024
Wollastonite spreading in Canada.

Calls for caution as enhanced rock weathering shows carbon capture promise

Sean Mowbray 29 Oct 2024

Six months after its worst floods, Rio Grande do Sul works to bounce back

Shi En Kim 28 Oct 2024
Banner image of Joan Carling, courtesy of Right Livelihood.

‘Treat us as partners, central actors’: Interview with Indigenous activist Joan Carling

Kristine Sabillo 22 Oct 2024

As 25 Earth vital signs worsen, scientists warn of ‘irreversible climate disaster’

Sean Mowbray 15 Oct 2024
Abdi Ahmed, in his late 60s, continues his pastoral life in Guyo Kebele, Somali Region, supporting his 19 children through a lifetime of nomadic herding.

Drought & climate change force Ethiopia pastoralists to go job hunting

Solomon Yimer 9 Oct 2024
The Atlantic Ocean from Massachusetts.

Controversial US marine geoengineering test delayed until next year

Jeremy Hance 2 Oct 2024
Rainfall over the Amazon river. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

The Amazon is ablaze again. What it means for us (commentary)

Mark J. Plotkin 30 Sep 2024
A group of chinstrap penguins on pack ice on Seal Island in Antarctica.

Arctic sea ice hits summer minimum; Antarctic hovers at new winter lows

Elizabeth Devitt 24 Sep 2024
A jellyfish swims in the sun in the mangroves.

Inaugural Planetary Health Check finds ocean acidification on the brink

Sean Mowbray 23 Sep 2024

Climate change could threaten newly described ‘shiny’ North American bees

Malaka Rodrigo 18 Sep 2024
Benjakitti Forest Park

Bangkok turns to urban forests to beat worsening floods

Claire Turrell 10 Sep 2024
A yellow oriental paper wasp (Polistes olivaceus)

Bats & bees help ni-Vanuatu predict storms — but will climate change interfere?

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 10 Sep 2024

Record drought in Yucatán prompts revival of ancient Maya rain ceremony

Mark Viales 29 Aug 2024
Silhouette of a plane.

Will we be ready? Geoengineering policy lags far behind pace of climate change

Charles Pekow 26 Aug 2024
Marcel König and Natascha Oppelt (both from the University of Kiel, Germany) measuring melt pond optical properties during RV Polarstern campaign PASCAL, north of Svalbard in June 2017.

Arctic melt ponds influence sea ice extent each summer — but how much?

Michael C. Bradbury 20 Aug 2024
Mothers and children wait in Changanine community (Chibuto District), Mozambique to collect their seeds from the Red Cross. The community has been hit very hard by the current drought, many have lost their crops and locals have to walk up to five kilometres to dig for water. Image by Aurélie Marrier d'Unienville / IFRC via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Climate change threatens public health, raising the spread of food-borne diseases

Leocadia Bongben 15 Aug 2024
A sea turtle in Ningaloo Reef, Australia.

As waterbodies lose oxygen, are we breaching a potential planetary boundary?

Elizabeth Claire Alberts, Glenn Scherer 13 Aug 2024
The ocean

Cloud brightening over oceans may stave off climate change, but with risk

Sean Mowbray 12 Aug 2024
Seema Devi and other women from her village line up at the aquifer beneath the newly constructed field that doubles as a helipad.

Uttarakhand villagers thirst for water as tourism, temps & development rise

Swati Thapa 9 Aug 2024
Fraser Valley as seen from Sumas Mountain.

Climate change could return a stolen lake to Indigenous people, a century later

Olivia Ferrari 7 Aug 2024

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