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Wildfires in Northern Forests Broke Carbon Emissions Records in 2021

Boreal forests store huge amounts of carbon, but the warming and drying climate is leading them to burn bigger, hotter and more frequently.

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

This aerial picture taken from an airplane on July 27, 2021, shows the smoke rising from a forest fire outside the village of Berdigestyakh, in the republic of Sakha, Siberia. Credit: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images
The sun starts to rise behind an offshore wind farm off the Great Yarmouth coastline on July 19, 2006 in Norfolk, England. Credit: Matt Cardy/Getty Images

A New White House Plan Prioritizes Using the Ocean’s Power to Fight Climate Change

By Bob Berwyn

New IPCC Report Shows the ‘Climate Time Bomb Is Ticking,’ Says UN Secretary General António Guterres

By Bob Berwyn

The buds on cherry trees at American University were already plump on March 5. Credit: Emma Ricketts

Washington’s Treasured Cherry Blossoms Prompt Reflection on Local Climate Change

By Emma Ricketts

An aerial view of landslide damage in La Cañada Flintridge, California on Monday, Feb. 27, 2023. Credit: Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

California, Battered by Atmospheric Rivers, Faces a Big Melt This Spring

By Bob Berwyn

Fishermen pull up fish in their gillnet during a midwater pair trawl on the Gulf of Gascony sea, off the coast of France, on Jan. 8, 2020. Protecting high seas ecosystems would also benefit commercial fisheries nearer to the shore by boosting overall fish stocks. Credit: Loic Venance/AFP via Getty Images

Can the New High Seas Treaty Help Limit Global Warming?

By Delaney Dryfoos, Bob Berwyn

Officials examine a dead beached whale on Rockaway beach on Dec. 13, 2022 in the Queens borough of New York City. Credit: Bryan Bedder/Getty Images

Why Saving the Whales Means Saving Ourselves

By Kiley Bense

A forest fire in Louchats, southwestern France, on July 17, 2022. Credit: Thibaud Moritz/AFP via Getty Images

Increasingly Large and Intense Wildfires Hinder Western Forests’ Ability to Regenerate

By Bob Berwyn

A 3D satellite image of the Mount Unzen Volcano, on the Island of Kyushu, East of Nagasaki, Japan, in 1993. Two years earlier, volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft died there, studying the eruption. (Photo by Planet Observer/Universal Images Group via Getty Images.

Two Volcanologists on the Edge of the Abyss, Searching for the Secrets of the Earth

By Kiley Bense

Climate expert and activist James Hansen attends a press conference at the COP 23 United Nations Climate Change Conference on Nov. 6, 2017 in Bonn, Germany. Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

60 Scientists Call for Accelerated Research Into ‘Solar Radiation Management’ That Could Temporarily Mask Global Warming

By Bob Berwyn

This aerial view taken on Aug. 24, 2021, shows the pond at the Storflaket mire, an area where permafrost is studied by researchers looking into the impact of climate change near the village of Abisko, in Norrbotten County, Sweden. Credit: Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP via Getty Images

Scientists Examine Dangerous Global Warming ‘Accelerators’

By Bob Berwyn

Sea World employees prepare a sling for Corleone, a rehabilitated manatee, to be released to his original home at Blue Springs State Park in Orange City, Florida on Jan. 17, 2022. Credit: Zack Wittman for The Washington Post via Getty Images

Nursing Florida’s Ailing Manatees Back to Health

By Amy Green, WMFE

An iceberg calving from Antarctica's Brunt Ice Shelf in February 2021. Credit: Gallo Images/Orbital Horizon/Copernicus Sentinel Data 2021

Antarctic Researchers Report an Extraordinary Marine Heatwave That Could Threaten Antarctica’s Ice Shelves

By Bob Berwyn

Smoke from Southern California wildfires moves towards the Pacific Ocean, creating spectacular dark skies as a local on Oxnard Shores Beach California captures the moment on Nov. 9, 2018. Credit: Paul Harris/Getty Images

Wildfire Smoke May Worsen Extreme Blazes Near Some Coasts, According to New Research

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is testing out a new technology, inside this trailer, which could destroy harmful PFAS chemicals that have been removed from groundwater. Credit: Shari L. Gross, Star Tribune

Destroying ‘Forever Chemicals’ is a Technological Race that Could Become a Multibillion-dollar Industry

By Chloe Johnson, Star Tribune

Residents work to push back wet mud that trapped cars and invaded some houses on Jan. 11, 2023 in Piru, east of Fillmore, California. A series of powerful storms pounded California in striking contrast to the past three years of severe to extreme drought experienced by most of the state. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

Confronting California’s Water Crisis

By Liza Gross

Electricity pylon and power cables. Credit: Tim Graham/Getty Images

US Emissions of the World’s Most Potent Greenhouse Gas Are 56 Percent Higher Than EPA Estimates, a New Study Shows

By Phil McKenna

Aerial view of a heavily touristed reef near resort developments near Sharm El-sheikh, Egypt. Runoff from landscaping at the resorts is a potential threat to the health of the reefs. Credit: Bob Berwyn

The Red Sea Could be a Climate Refuge for Coral Reefs

By Bob Berwyn

Indigenous activist Bitate Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau, poses at the premiere of National Geographic Documentary Film 'The Territory', in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Sept. 5, 2022. Credit: Miguel Schincariol/AFP via Getty Images

Listening to the Endangered Sounds of the Amazon Rainforest

By Kiley Bense

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