Tagged: climate

Standing on the deck of Berta Cáceres, the now-iconic pink boat, Emma Thompson addressed a sprawling crowd of protestors and gave a slew of media interviews. It was April 2019, Extinction Rebellion had occupied Oxford Circus in London, and the actress was eager to lend...

It’s no secret that human activity is changing the climate, and one new study shows how our influence is seriously affecting Earth’s seasons and atmosphere. Climate change is much more than rising temperatures and melting ice. In a new study, scientists from Lawrence Livermore National...

MPs have joined growing calls from business leaders and environmentalists for the government to use its post-coronavirus economic recovery plan to accelerate investments aimed at tackling the climate crisis. The chairs of two influential cross-party select committees have warned the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, that time...

The history of life is chronicled in our fossil record. Scientists use skeletons, trackways and other tangible calling cards to learn new things about prehistoric organisms. But how do they study prehistoric climates? Unlike dinosaurs or mastodons, the climate has no bones to leave behind,...

Did climate change already kill all the aliens we’ve been searching for? According to astrophysicist Adam Frank, it’s certainly a possibility — and whether humans are doomed to the same fate may already be out of our hands. Frank, a professor of physics and astronomy...

You might have a ginkgo tree in your neighborhood — it has wispy, fan-shaped leaves that turn a beautiful burnished yellow in the fall, and possibly drops rotten-smelling fruit. It looks different from other trees you see on the street, mostly because when you look...

On Aug. 18, 2019, Iceland held a funeral for the first glacier lost to climate change. The deceased party was Okjökull, a historic body of ice that covered 14.6 square miles (38 square kilometers) in the Icelandic Highlands at the turn of the 20th century....

Alex Loznak has been hanging around lawyers since he was a teenager in Oregon. That’s when he first agreed to join a lawsuit that has changed his life and, possibly, could change all Americans’. He is one of 21 young plaintiffs in Juliana v. United...

The United Nations suggests that climate change is not just the defining issue of our time, but we are also at a defining moment in history. Weather patterns are changing and will threaten food production, and sea levels are rising and could cause catastrophic flooding...