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Canada’s Extreme Wildfire Season Offers a Glimpse of New Risks
The blanket of wildfire smoke that spread across large parts of the U.S. and Canada in 2023 was a wake-up call, showing what climate change could feel like in the near future for millions of people.
Are Sunflowers Colorado’s Best Hedge Against Climate Change?
In the state’s dry, nutrient-deficient soil, CU Boulder researchers and others aim to learn if the crop can survive and even thrive in a hotter, drier future.
Bigger, Wilder, More Destructive: How Cold Fronts Affected the Black Summer Bushfires
Cold fronts play a role in making bushfires drastically worse – posing a serious concern for future bushfire events.
Using Our Oceans to Fight Climate Change
The ocean isn’t just impacted by climate change — it may also be part of the solution to reversing it.
Gloomy climate calculation: Scientists predict a collapse of the Atlantic ocean current to happen mid-century
Important ocean currents that redistribute heat, cold and precipitation between the tropics and the northernmost parts of the Atlantic region will shut down around the year 2060 if current greenhouse gas emissions persist. This is the conclusion based on new calculations that contradict the latest report from the IPCC.
Climate scientist finds new way to measure the Earth’s ability to offset carbon emissions
Scientists have determined how the Earth responds as it heats up due to climate change. Their study is the first to find the temperature-carbon dioxide release relationship at the landscape level. Plants that currently take up a quarter to a third of humanity's carbon emissions might not be able to...
Scientists discover new isopod species in the Florida Keys
Scientists have discovered a new species of marine cryptofauna in the Florida Keys. Cryptofauna are the tiny, hidden, organisms that make up the majority of biodiversity in the ocean. The tiny crustaceans are the first new gnathiid isopod to be discovered from the Floridian ecoregion in 100 years and are...
What can central Utah’s earthquake ‘swarms’ reveal about the West’s seismicity?
Much of central Utah's seismic activity comes in groups of small earthquakes. A study by seismologists examines 2,300 quakes occurring 40 'swarms' dating back to 1981, opening a window into Earth's crust in a geothermally active area.
Risk of fatal heart attack may double in heat wave and high fine particulate pollution days
An analysis of more than 202,000 heart attack deaths between 2015-2020 in a single Chinese province found that days that had extreme heat, extreme cold or high levels of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) air pollution were significantly associated with the risk of death from a heart attack, especially in women...