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A vital Atlantic Ocean system could collapse sooner than previously thought
Climate change is slowing down the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, a key ocean “conveyer belt.” New research finds it could collapse completely by 2060.
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The author of ‘Blight’ explains how humans supercharged fungal pathogens
Fungal diseases have come for frogs, bats, and bananas, and they're coming for us, too.
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How climate change drives hotter, more frequent heat waves
Everything you need to know about the science linking global warming to extreme heat.
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How air pollution and the housing crisis are connected
When you're homeless, dangerous air isn't just during wildfire season.
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Wood isn’t the climate-friendly material you think it is
A new study shows that cutting down trees for paper, furniture, and fuel emits three times more carbon than flying.
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Canadian wildfire smoke brings another wave of ‘very unhealthy’ air to the Midwest, East Coast
It likely won't be the last time this summer.
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Tropical forest loss sped up in 2022, despite global pledge to halt deforestation
A new analysis shows the world lost 10 million acres of tropical forest last year — an area the size of Switzerland.
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The climate crisis is on track to push one-third of humanity out of its most livable environment
As conditions that best support life shift toward the poles, more than 600 million people are already living outside of a crucial “climate niche,” facing more extreme heat, rising food scarcity and higher death rates.
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The upper atmosphere is cooling, prompting new climate concerns
A new study reaffirming that global climate change is human-made also found the upper atmosphere is cooling dramatically because of rising CO2 levels. Scientists are worried about the effect this cooling could have on orbiting satellites, the ozone layer, and Earth’s weather.
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Why is the summer off to such an extreme start?
Blame climate change, El Niño, and a dose of bad luck.
