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There’s a rule of thumb that rainfall intensity increases by about 7% per degree Celsius as temperatures rise. But the increase is much higher in the mountains, scientists found.
Poetry and prose are prominent features in this course about how climate change is affecting the world.
We’ve become so good at using the Earth’s resources we’re endangering the systems we rely on.
A therapist shares advice for harnessing your stress over climate change and other environmental harms and putting it to work.
Desert dust storms are increasingly picking up materials like sewage, herbicides and other human-made waste and transporting them on tiny particles that are easy to inhale.
The northern summer was marked by intense fires and heat. Now it’s our turn to face the heat.
Dams are usually built to withstand heavy rainfall or drought.
An ‘omega block’ helped Storm Daniel wreak devastation in Libya.
A new report explores options for managing the period after global warming exceeds 1.5°C. This is called ‘climate overshoot’, because we’re pushing past the safe zone into dangerous climate change.
What makes a great climate leader and why are we not seeing more of them? I’ve been searching for good examples of climate leaders. This is the subject of our new documentary, Climate Changers.
Many researchers are exploring high-tech ways to help reefs survive the climate crisis. But low-tech solutions like manually pulling out seaweed have a place too.
Climate assemblies may just provide the breakthrough required to develop popular, just and sustainable climate and energy policies.
The future of the traditional holiday getaway looks bleak.
When water warms, it holds less oxygen, and this can harm aquatic life and degrade water quality. A new study finds that climate change is driving oxygen loss in hundreds of US and European rivers.
Ad Net Zero is a new initiative aimed at reducing the advertising industry’s carbon footprint. But agencies have yet to take the next and most difficult step.
The fossil record tells conflicting stories about what happened to flowering plants after the asteroid.
There’s nothing normal about the blast furnace heat much of the world has been experiencing, as an atmospheric scientist explains.
Climate change is putting pressure on Ethiopia’s largest city, Addis Ababa, and exposing people to disease and natural disasters.
Sea ice around Antarctica has always followed a predictable seasonal cycle. Now, we’ve experienced a sudden dramatic loss, and the changes are here to stay.
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