YOU WONT BELIEVE: 4 | Mind Blowing Facts

Number of cyclones steady, but storms more intense due to climate change

While the number of tropical cyclones has remained steady over the past four decades, their intensity has significantly increased, according to international databases that confirm climatologists' projections.

Radio France Internationale · Jan 4, 2025

UK gambling with climate targets over carbon capture, say campaigners

Potential IPCC rule changes could award planned carbon savings from burning US wood pellets to the exporter, not the importer

The Guardian - UK · Dec 26, 2024

Rising desertification shows we can’t keep farming with fossil fuels

Three-quarters of Earth’s land has become drier since 1990.

The Conversation · Dec 12, 2024

Key Atlantic current is weakening much faster than scientists had predicted

A current key to stabilizing climates across the Atlantic and beyond could be one-third weaker by 2040, a new study has revealed.

LiveScience · Nov 25, 2024

We have officially advised our university to ditch carbon offsets – and focus on cutting emissions

As climate and Earth scientists, we are acutely aware that action on climate change is desperately needed. It is now almost certain that 2024 will not only be the warmest year ever recorded, but also the first year that will be 1.5°C warmer than pre-industrial levels.

The Conversation · Nov 22, 2024

US politics has long shaped global climate action and science – how much will Trump’s opposition matter?

US president-elect Donald Trump has indicated that he will again withdraw his country from the Paris agreement and perhaps the UN climate process altogether. The uncertainty this has created was palpable in the negotiation rooms and hallways of the Cop29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, where I wrote this.

The Conversation · Nov 19, 2024

Climate Scientists Argue That It’s Time To Plan For the Worst Case Warming

Scientists argue that halting the increase in annual emissions is a first step — and shouldn’t be our only focus.

Inverse · Nov 18, 2024

We passed 1.5°C of human-caused warming this year (just not as the Paris agreement measures it)

Human-caused global warming has just nudged past 1.5°C, according to a new method we have developed. That’s approaching 0.2°C higher than previously thought.

The Conversation · Nov 14, 2024

Officer who shot dead Jean Charles de Menezes days after 7/7 bombings unmasked after almost two decades

Speaking out for the first time in 20 years, officer C12 revealed he had to wash bone fragments out his hair following the shooting

The Independent UK · Nov 8, 2024

The frozen carbon of the northern permafrost is on the move – we estimated by how much

Among the most rapidly changing parts of our planet are the coldest landscapes near the top of the globe, just south of the Arctic. This region is warming two to four times faster than the global average.

The Conversation · Nov 5, 2024