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This Year’s Antarctic Ozone Hole Was Shockingly Small #Science #EarthSciences #Climatology #OzoneLayer #ClimateChange #Antarctica

Deep-Ocean Carbon Fixers Overturn Long-Held Climate Assumptions #Science #EarthSciences #Oceanography #ClimateChange #DeepOcean #CarbonFixation

Deep-Sea Clues Rewrite What We Know About the End of the Last Ice Age #Science #EarthSciences #Paleontology #IceAge #ClimateChange #Geoscience

Why Tehran Is Running Out of Water Because of shifting storms and sweltering summers, Iran’s capital faces a future “Day Zero” when the taps run dry.

Why Tehran Is Running Out of Water #Science #EarthSciences #Hydrology #WaterCrisis #Tehran #ClimateChange

Europe races to save its underwater heritage from climate change #Science #EarthSciences #EnvironmentalScience #UnderwaterHeritage #ClimateChange #Conservation

Climate Change Could Cost You 24 Hours of Sleep a Year #Science #HealthandMedicine #PublicHealth #ClimateChange #SleepHealth

New report warns of critical climate risks in Arab region Foundations of daily life are being pushed to the brink by human-caused warming.

New report warns of critical climate risks in Arab region #Science #EarthSciences #Climatology #ClimateChange #ArabRegion #EnvironmentalRisks

El Niño Could Become Regular Event By The 2060s, But More Devastating Climate model shows El Niño could shift to regular, predictable cycles by mid-century while also growing more intense and destructive.

El Niño Could Become Regular Event By The 2060s, But More Devastating #Science #EarthSciences #Climatology #ElNino #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming

Delaying Net Zero Could Lock the Planet Into 1,000 Years of Extreme Heat #Science #EarthSciences #Climatology #NetZero #ClimateChange #ExtremeHeat

China’s CO2 Emissions Might Have Finally Peaked China has rapidly become the world leader in renewable energy, but continued coal use means it could take longer for its emissions to decline

China’s CO2 Emissions Might Have Finally Peaked #Science #EarthSciences #EnvironmentalScience #CO2Emissions #ClimateChange

Is the Drought in the Southwest Permanent? Is the Drought in the Southwest Permanent? Reservoirs along the Colorado River dwindle by the day exposing sunken boats and barren soils.

Is the Drought in the Southwest Permanent? #Science #EarthSciences #Climatology #Drought #ClimateChange #SouthwestUSA

The World's Largest Ice Desert Surprisingly Lacks Ice in One Key Place Antarctica is a notoriously icy place, and yet its clouds, new research reveals, are surprisingly lacking in the stuff.

The World's Largest Ice Desert Surprisingly Lacks Ice in One Key Place #Science #EarthSciences #Climatology #IceDesert #ClimateChange #EnvironmentalScience

35-Year-Old Air Samples Uncover Unexpected Changes in Nature’s Seasonal Rhythms #Science #EarthSciences #EnvironmentalScience #ClimateChange #EnvironmentalResearch #SeasonalRhythms

Plants Stopped Thriving When Earth Warmed 56 Million Years Ago Around 56 million years ago, Earth suddenly got much hotter.

Plants Stopped Thriving When Earth Warmed 56 Million Years Ago #Science #EarthSciences #Paleontology #ClimateChange #Paleoclimate #Botany

Coral reefs have fuelled severe global warming in Earth's past Over the past 250 million years, periods when coral reef growth has peaked have coincided with big rises in sea temperatures

Coral reefs have fuelled severe global warming in Earth's past #Science #EarthSciences #Paleontology #CoralReefs #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange

This Overlooked Rock Stores 40 Times More Carbon Than We Thought #Science #EarthSciences #Geochemistry #CarbonStorage #Geology #ClimateChange

Hole in Antarctic ozone layer shrinks to smallest since 2019, scientists say EU’s Copernicus monitoring service hails ‘reassuring sign’ of progress observed this year in hole’s size and duration

Hole in Antarctic ozone layer shrinks to smallest since 2019, scientists say #Science #EarthSciences #EnvironmentalScience #OzoneLayer #Antarctic #ClimateChange

African Forests Have Become a Source of Carbon Emissions Published at the Yale School of the Environment

African Forests Have Become a Source of Carbon Emissions #Science #EarthSciences #Climatology #CarbonEmissions #ClimateChange #AfricanForests

The Oceans Are Going to Rise—but When? The uniquely vulnerable West Antarctic Ice Sheet holds enough water to raise global sea levels by 5 meters. But when that will happen—and how fast—is anything but settled.

The Oceans Are Going to Rise—but When? #Science #EarthSciences #Climatology #SeaLevelRise #ClimateChange #OceanScience

New Study Warns: By 2100, Coral Reefs Could Be Overtaken by Algae #Science #EarthSciences #Oceanography #CoralReefs #ClimateChange #MarineEcosystems

Massive climate-induced earthquakes are brewing beneath our biggest cities. Are we prepared? | BBC Science Focus Magazine Climate change isn’t just warming the planet; it’s shaking Earth’s foundations

Massive climate-induced earthquakes are brewing beneath our biggest cities. Are we prepared? #Science #EarthSciences #Seismology #ClimateChange #SeismicActivity #UrbanPreparedness

New Study Reveals the Hidden Source of Rainfall That Could Make or Break Global Crops #Science #EarthSciences #Climatology #Agriculture #ClimateChange #Rainfall

Africa’s Forests Are Flipping From Carbon Shield To Carbon Source #Science #EarthSciences #EnvironmentalScience #Forests #CarbonEmissions #ClimateChange

Africa’s forests are now emitting more CO2 than they absorb Logging and mining are destroying swathes of the Congo rainforest, with the result that African forests went from being  a carbon sink to a carbon source in 2010 to 2017

Africa’s forests are now emitting more CO2 than they absorb #Science #EarthSciences #Climatology #ClimateChange #Forestry #CO2Emissions

Even Cooling the Planet May Not Save Your Coffee, Wine, and Chocolate #Science #EarthSciences #EnvironmentalScience #ClimateChange #FoodProduction #Sustainability

Emergency response needed to prevent climate breakdown, warn experts Scientists sounded the alarm on the dire consequences of continued inaction at a briefing in London, warning that we could be heading for "unprecedented societal and ecological collapse"

Emergency response needed to prevent climate breakdown, warn experts #Science #EarthSciences #Climatology #ClimateEmergency #ClimateChange #Sustainability

Warming and droughts led to collapse of the Indus Valley Civilisation Hotter temperatures and a series of droughts in what is now Pakistan and India fragmented one of the world’s major early civilisations, providing a "warning shot" for today

Warming and droughts led to collapse of the Indus Valley Civilisation #Science #EarthSciences #Archaeology #IndusValleyCivilization #ClimateChange

This year’s UN climate talks avoided fossil fuels, again Why can’t world leaders acknowledge that fossil fuels are the leading contributor to climate change?

This year’s UN climate talks avoided fossil fuels, again #Science #EarthSciences #EnvironmentalScience #ClimateChange #FossilFuels #UNClimateTalks

Here are 3 big ideas to combat climate change, with or without COP As action from the U.N.’s huge COP30 international meeting falls short, smaller groups are banding together to find ways to fight climate change.

Here are 3 big ideas to combat climate change, with or without COP #Science #EarthSciences #EnvironmentalScience #ClimateChange #Sustainability #EnvironmentalAction

Changes in solar energy fuelled high speed evolutionary changes, study suggests Cause of oxygen fluctuations that drove explosion of weird and wonderful inhabitants 500m years ago linked to changes in Earth’s orbit

Changes in solar energy fuelled high speed evolutionary changes, study suggests #Science #Biology #EvolutionaryBiology #SolarEnergy #Evolution #ClimateChange