Earth’s temperature has been climbing for decades.Credit: Mark J. Terrill/AP/Alamy Earth’s temperature has surged in the past two years, and climate scientists will soon announce that it hit a milestone in 2024: rising more than 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels. But is this sudden spike just a blip in the climate data, or an early […]
In a string of visits, dinners, calls, monetary pledges and social media overtures, big tech chiefs — including Apple’s Tim CookOpenAI’s Sam AltmanMeta’s Mark ZuckerbergSoftBank’s Masayoshi Son and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos— have joined a parade of business and world leaders in trying to improve their standing with President-elect Donald Trump before he takes office in […]
“Get in the car!” – BBC team cuts short filming as a polar bear is spotted nearby “Can I give you some polar bear advice?” asks Tee, a confident 13-year-old we meet during a visit to Churchill’s high school. “If there’s a bear this close to you,” she says as she measures a distance of […]
NEW YORK — In a string of visits, dinners, calls, monetary pledges and social media overtures, big tech chiefs — including Apple’s Tim CookOpenAI’s Sam AltmanMeta’s Mark ZuckerbergSoftBank’s Masayoshi Son and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos — have joined a parade of business and world leaders in trying to improve their standing with President-elect Donald Trump before […]
Wildfires and thawing permafrost are causing the region to release more carbon dioxide than its plants remove, probably for the first time in thousands of years.
The concept of an atmospheric energy imbalance is pretty straightforward: We can measure both the amount of energy the Earth receives from the Sun and how much energy it radiates back into space. Any difference between the two results in a net energy imbalance that’s either absorbed by or extracted from the ocean/atmosphere system. And […]
An extreme heat wave off California’s coast seemed like an anomaly 10 years ago. But as the ocean warms, the catastrophe may be a glimpse of the future.
Getty Images Little progress has been made in limiting emissions of greenhouse gases that are driving up temperatures Global efforts to tackle climate change are wildly off track, says the UN, as new data shows that warming gases are accumulating faster than at any time in human existence. Current national plans to limit carbon emissions […]
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Planting Abies religiosa (Sacred fir) seedlings under the shade of pre-existing shrubs (Senecio cinerarioides, narrow green-grayish foliage) as protective “nurse plants”. Large trees on background are adult Pinus hartwegii, the pine that reaches the timberline. Abies religiosa is completely absent in this site at 3800 m of elevation, northeaster slope of Nevado de Toluca volcano, […]
