
Smithsonian - 1 hour 9 min ago
Sea ice loss seems to have triggered a decline in the nutrient nitrate, affecting the tiny organisms that form the foundations of marine food chains and absorb atmospheric carbon dioxide, according to a new study...

New York Times - 1 hour 40 min ago
The study warned that major losses of plant species could occur in the coming decades even if nations limit global warming to moderate levels.

BBC - 3 hours 46 min ago
The new assessment was required by the industry regulator, after it found several areas had not been adequately addressed in a previous submission.

The Guardian - 6 hours 44 min ago
Estonia, Luxembourg and UK are the top three in biennial Yale University index in tackling pollution and other issues Much of the world has made encouraging strides in reducing toxic problems such as water and air pollution that have long plagued communities. But there is still a widespread lack of progress among countries in dealing with the climate crisis , according to the latest edition of an influential environmental scorecard. The biennial Yale University index again ranks Estonia as the best-performing...

The Nation - 7 hours 45 min ago
June Loper, Harrison Stetler A historically hot summer is revealing a society massively unprepared for the new climate reality. The post France's Heat Shock appeared first on The Nation .

NPR - 7 hours 53 min ago
The nation's oldest continuously operated weather observatory in Milton, Massachusetts, keeps track of a surprising climate indicator: the date the first blueberry ripens.

Nature - 16 hours 45 min ago
Amazonia harbours more than 10% of the terrestrial biodiversity of the Earth1 and more than 400 Indigenous groups2. So far, however, no study has assessed how climate change and the loss of Indigenous languages may simultaneously impact its biological and cultural heritage. Here, to bridge this gap, we first assembled a database of 90,536 reports from 700 references to understand the societal benefits that native plants provide across all countries of the Amazon basin. We found that humans utilize...

Nature - 16 hours 45 min ago
Rebuilding the reciprocal care-oriented relationships between Amazonian Indigenous peoples and nature could address the predicted effects of climate change on biodiversity.