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Scientists Warn of Summer Heat Spikes as Global Warming Edges Toward 2C

Researchers say fossil fuel burning and other human activities caused nearly all the rapid warming of the past decade.

By Bob Berwyn

A person wears a hat for shade during a heat wave on March 20 in Redondo Beach, Calif. The March heat wave that blistered the Western U.S. foreshadows more extreme heat this summer, former NOAA climate scientists said in a briefing this week. Credit: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images
Carbon monoxide and non-methane volatile organic compounds are named as major sources of indirect contributions to global warming in a new paper. Credit: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

The Climate Change Culprits Not Addressed by Global Policy

By Nina Sablan

Carly Dennison (left) and Jordan Holder from the University of Miami Rosenstiel School prepare to outplant “Flonduran” and Florida elkhorn corals in the Dry Tortugas. Credit: Bailey Marquardt/Coral Reef Futures Lab

Scientists Outplant Experimental ‘Flonduran’ Corals in Florida’s Dry Tortugas National Park

By Teresa Tomassoni

People carry their belongings as they evacuate due to flooding in Yaguachi, Ecuador, on Feb. 25, 2025. Credit: Marcos Pin/AFP via Getty Images

Latin America Faces ‘Hydrological Whiplash’ as Climate Risks Mount

By Bob Berwyn

People cross a section of collapsed road during flash flooding linked to El Niño conditions on Nov. 22, 2023, near Garissa, Kenya. Credit: Luis Tato/AFP via Getty Images

As El Niño Approaches, Scientists Predict Fierce Heatwaves, Wildfires and Floods

By Bob Berwyn

The 2024 El Niño in the Tropical Pacific, combined with human-caused warming, dried out vast tracts of the Amazon region, crushing livelihoods and displacing people, and also flipped some forests to release more carbon dioxide than they absorb and store, a “regime shift” in the Amazon carbon cycle. Credit: Luis Acosta/AFP via Getty Images

The Next El Niño Could Lock Earth Into a Hotter Climate

By Bob Berwyn

A great white shark is seen off the coast of Mexico’s Guadalupe Island. Credit: Dave J Hogan/Getty Images

Great White Sharks Are Overheating

By Johnny Sturgeon

Special cameras helped scientists pinpoint when a combination of heat and drought conditions cause changes in individual oak leaves. Credit: Alyssa Kullberg

How Forests Start to Fail, One Leaf at a Time

By Bob Berwyn

Researchers catch lobsters as part of long-term ecosystem survey in Maine. Credit: Gulf of Maine Research Institute (GMRI.org)

Warming Waters in the Gulf of Maine May Affect the Future of Lobsters

By Nicole Williams

Researchers and tourists explore the edge of an ice shelf along the Antarctic Peninsula, which has warmed faster than nearly any other region in the past few decades. Credit Bob Berwyn/Inside Climate News

Scientists See Converging Evidence of Antarctic Ice Retreat

By Bob Berwyn

A commercial fishing crew member views their catch of pollock on March 7, 2021, in Newlyn, England. Credit: Hugh R Hastings/Getty Images

Warming Waters Threaten Seafood Supply

By Johnny Sturgeon

People take cover as a thunderstorm, accompanied by heavy hail, sweeps through Paris on May 3, 2025. Credit: Jerome Gilles/NurPhoto via Getty Images

A Warmer Climate Means Bigger Hail

By Bob Berwyn

A worker removes sargassum from the shore of Playa del Carmen Beach in Quintana Roo, Mexico, on June 18, 2025. Credit: Elizabeth Ruiz/AFP via Getty Images

Why Beaches Are Swamped With Sargassum, the Stinky Seaweed Menace

Interview by Aynsley O’Neill, Living on Earth

A man uses buckets of water to extinguish a wildfire that threatens his house in the Portuguese village of Antas on Aug. 15, 2025. Credit: Patricia de Melo Moreira/AFP via Getty Images

Warming Triggers a Chain Reaction of Disturbance in European Forests

By Bob Berwyn

Emperor penguins are only found in Antarctica and evolved over millions of years to live with polar ice, a true sentinel species for global warming. Credit: Peter Fretwell

Satellites Reveal New Climate Threat to Emperor Penguins

By Bob Berwyn

A Civil Protection member comforts a woman as a wildfire burns in the village of Veiga das Meas, Spain, on Aug. 16, 2025. Increasingly severe wildfire seasons around the world are one of the signs that some forests are at a climate threshold. Credit: Miguel Riopa/AFP via Getty Images

Accelerated Global Warming Could Lock Earth Into a Hothouse Future

By Bob Berwyn

Scientists Push for More Ambitious Climate Targets

By Bob Berwyn

A construction worker cools off with water as a heatwave hits France in Nantes on June 19, 2025. Credit: Loic Venance/AFP via Getty Images

New Climate Reports Show ‘Unprecedented Run of Global Heat’

By Bob Berwyn

Rare desert wetlands at the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula could be wiped by global warming before the end of the century, a new report on climate change in the Arab region warns. Credit: Bob Berwyn/Inside Climate News

New Report Warns of Critical Climate Risks in Arab Region

By Bob Berwyn

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