Another year, another record,” quipped Ralph Keeling, head of the Scripps CO2 Program, as atmospheric carbon dioxide hit 430 ...

New research from UC Santa Barbara reveals that the atmosphere’s drying capacity is outpacing increases to rainfall.

New data shows that CO2 levels have broken through 430 parts per million, an indication that human-caused global warming will ...

Higher temperatures caused by climate change are driving complex processes that make droughts bigger and more severe, new ...

New research finds that Adelie penguin guano releases ammonia, which helps create clouds that protect Antarctica from climate ...

A new study shows that rising ‘atmospheric thirst’ is responsible for about 40% of the increase in drought severity over the ...

New study finds that ammonia aerosols from penguin guano likely play an important part in the formation of heat-shielding ...

President Donald Trump’s administration is on a crusade against efforts to grapple with climate change. From the start of Trump’s second term, officials have halted clean energy projects or ...

temperature goals from the 2015 Paris Agreement—it’s also critical to keep any extra methane from leaking into the atmosphere. “It’s impossible to hit those climate targets with methane in ...

Not surprisingly, these atmospheric rivers will hold more moisture in the warming climate, increasing the risk from stream and river flooding, and in turn, the costs to recover from the flooding.

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In this study, 134 environmental covariates were considered (Supplementary Table S1), representing factors related to soil and encompassing five major categories, namely, climate, organisms, ...