Science

The Acceleration of an Antarctic Glacier Shows How Global Warming Can Rapidly Break Up Polar Ice and Raise Sea Level

New research on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet tracked the disintegration of a floating ice shelf and how that accelerated the flow of the Pine Island Glacier to the sea.

By Bob Berwyn

How Capturing Floodwaters Can Reduce Flooding and Combat Drought

By Liza Gross

Warming Trends: Bugs Get Counted, Meteorologists on Call and Boats That Gather Data in the Hurricane’s Eye

By Katelyn Weisbrod

California’s Almond Trees Rely on Honey Bees and Wild Pollinators, but a Lack of Good Habitat is Making Their Job Harder

By Anne Marshall-Chalmers

Warming Trends: Heating Up the Summer Olympics, Seeing Earth in 3-D and Methane Emissions From ‘Tree Farts’

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Fighting Attacks on Inconvenient Science—and Scientists

By Liza Gross

Warming Trends: What Happens Once We Stop Shopping, Nano-Devices That Turn Waste Heat into Power and How Your Netflix Consumption Warms the Planet

By Katelyn Weisbrod

New Arctic Council Reports Underline the Growing Concerns About the Health and Climate Impacts of Polar Air Pollution

By Bob Berwyn

Extreme Heat Risks May Be Widely Underestimated and Sometimes Left Out of Major Climate Reports

By Bob Berwyn

NOAA’s ‘New Normals’ Climate Data Raises Questions About What’s Normal

By Bob Berwyn and Matt deGrood

Warming Trends: Chief Heat Officers, Disappearing Cave Art and a Game of Climate Survival

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Air Pollution From Raising Livestock Accounts for Most of the 16,000 US Deaths Each Year Tied to Food Production, Study Finds

By Georgina Gustin

In California’s Farm Country, Climate Change Is Likely to Trigger More Pesticide Use, Fouling Waterways

By Liza Gross

Warming Trends: Farming for City Dwellers, an Upbeat Climate Podcast and Soil Bacteria That May Outsmart Warming

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Meeting the Paris Climate Goals is Critical to Preventing Disintegration of Antarctica’s Ice Shelves

By Bob Berwyn

Nature is Critical to Slowing Climate Change, But It Can Only Do So If We Help It First

By Bob Berwyn

Warming Trends: A Global Warming Beer Really Needs a Frosty Mug, Ghost Trees in New York and a Cooking Site Gives Up Beef

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Warming Trends: A Flag for Antarctica, Lonely Hearts ‘Hot for Climate Change Activists,’ and How to Check Your Environmental Handprint

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Warming Trends: Google Earth Shows Climate Change in Action, a History of the World Through Bat Guano and Bike Riding With Monarchs

By Katelyn Weisbrod