Earth on the brink of a key warming threshold after chart-busting year

A wind change increased flames during a planned ignition on the Ross Moore Lake wildfire in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada, on Friday, July 28, 2023. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Last year — the hottest on record — smashed a series of climate records and gave new meaning to the phrase “off the charts,” … Read more

A warming island’s mice are breeding out of control and eating seabirds. An extermination is planned

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Mice accidentally introduced to a remote island near Antarctica 200 years ago are breeding out of control because of climate change, and they are eating seabirds and causing major harm in a special nature reserve with “unique biodiversity.” Now conservationists are planning a mass extermination using helicopters and hundreds of … Read more

Oops, Scientists May Have Miscalculated Our Global Warming Timeline

“Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links.” The Paris Climate Accords in 2015 set an ambitious (and necessary) goal of keeping global temperatures at 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temps. But a new study says we might’ve blown past that threshold several years ago. A new study … Read more

World surpasses key warming threshold across an entire year

A firefighter stands on boulders covered with pink fire retardant while monitoring the Gavilan Fire, which has already burned more than 250 acres in Perris, Riverside County, California, on July 15, 2023. David Swanson | Afp | Getty Images Scientists on Thursday said the world surpassed a key warming threshold across an entire year for … Read more

Bill Gates warns the world is likely to overshoot 2 degrees of warming

Bill Gates arrives for a press conference to launch the Global Polio Eradication Initiative at the European Commission’s Berlaymont headquarters in Brussels on October 11, 2023. Simon Wohlfahrt | Afp | Getty Images Dubai, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES — Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates on Friday said the world is likely to overshoot a critical temperature threshold … Read more

Glacial Lakes Threaten Millions in a Warming World

Known formally as glacial lake outburst floods—or GLOFs—these deluges are driven by rising mountain temperatures. Where glaciers terminate, they deposit rocky debris that has been carried in their ice, forming what is known as a moraine. Sometimes, meltwater from the glacier will get trapped behind this debris, creating a lake. All around the world, glacier … Read more

Southeast Asia haze returns as peatland fires fan global warming fears

In this photo taken on October 10, 2023, a man looks at a forest fire as it approaches houses in Ogan Ilir, South Sumatra. Al Zulkifli | Afp | Getty Images With El Nino in full force, officials are bracing for the worst transboundary haze in southern Southeast Asia since before the pandemic in 2019. … Read more

China Frees Detained Australian Journalist in Sign of Warming Ties

Australian journalist Cheng Lei has flown back to Melbourne after being released from about three years of detention in China, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said, in a major sign of diplomatic warming after years of tensions. Albanese said Wednesday he had spoken to the former detainee in Melbourne, and she had been reunited with her … Read more

Asia’s Warmth Wave Demonstrates Risks of Warming World

Asia stays within the grip of a blistering warmth wave, chiming with predictions from local weather scientists that 2023 could possibly be the world’s hottest 12 months but. In an ominous signal forward of the northern hemisphere summer time, an rising El Nino climate sample is pushing the mercury to unprecedented ranges in southern elements … Read more