Planets & Transits
New Moon in Leo August 12, 2026
The New Moon arrives in Leo August 12 at 8:36 PM UTC, and with it comes a singular...
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- Written by: David Wallace Wells, Big Think
Coral reefs may not be able to survive another human decade because of the environmental stress we have placed on them, says author David Wallace-Wells. He posits that without meaningful changes to
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- Written by: Boston University
New research that combines satellite data with on-the-ground measurements, suggests that as global temperatures rise, spring in the Northeastern United States is starting earlier.
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- Written by: Hannah Hickey, University of Washington
Scientists studying climate change have long debated exactly how much hotter Earth will become given certain amounts of greenhouse gas emissions.
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- Written by: Nadia Prupis, Common Dreams
Much like ExxonMobil, Shell lobbied against climate legislation and invested billions in fossil fuels despite knowing dangers of global warming
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- Written by: Brian Peloza, Purdue University
As the world warmed millions of years ago, conditions in the tropics may have made it so hot some organisms couldn’t survive.
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- Written by: Steve Tally, Purdue University
For a period about a million years ago Greenland wasn’t covered in ice. Researchers say the discovery suggests it’s possible the ice sheet could go away again.
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- Written by: Ker Than, Stanford University
The bulk of methane emissions in the United States can be traced to a small number of “super-emitting” natural gas wells.
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- Written by: Deke Arndt, Climate.gov
NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (and several other institutions) reported April 2016 to be the warmest April on record for the planet. All of the previous twelve months now hold the “Warmest [INSERT MONTH HERE] on Record” title. That’s twelve months in a row, and that’s never happened.
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- Written by: Nerilie Abram, Australian National University; Matthew England, UNSW Australia, and Tessa Vance, University of Tasmania
2016 continues to be a momentous year for Australia’s climate, on track to be the new hottest year on record.
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- Written by: Alex Kirby, Climate News Network
Senior military figures in the US warn of national and international security threats posed by the impacts of climate change.
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- Written by: Peter Ellerton, The University of Queensland
Claims that the “the science isn’t settled” with regard to climate change are symptomatic of a large body of ignorance about how science works.
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- Written by: Fabio Bergamin, ETH Zurich
With the help of satellite data, scientists have shown that low-level cloud cover in the tropics thins out as Earth warms. Because this cloud cover has a cooling effect on the climate, the two-degree warming target set by the Paris Agreement may arrive sooner than predicted.
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- Written by: Andrew King, University of Melbourne and Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, UNSW Australia
The State of the Climate in 2015 report, led by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, was released. Unfortunately, it paints a grim picture of the world’s climate last year.
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- Written by: Peter Rayner, University of Melbourne; Cathy Trudinger, CSIRO; David Etheridge, CSIRO, and Mauro Rubino, Second University of Naples
The dip in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels during the Little Ice Age wasn’t caused by New World pioneers cutting a swathe through native American agriculture, as had been previously thought.
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- Written by: Charlotte Hsu, University at Buffalo
Experts say the results of a study of ancient zooplankton fossils offer a warning about mass extinction events: There’s a tipping point, at which dramatic declines in populations begin.
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- Written by: Dick Williams, Charles Darwin University and James Camac
Think of an Australian landscape and you’re unlikely to picture snow-capped mountains or alpine meadows. But that’s what you’ll find atop the peaks of the country’s southeastern corner.
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- Written by: John Cook, The University of Queensland
The fossil fuel industry has spent many millions of dollars on confusing the public about climate change. But the role of vested interests in climate science denial is only half the picture.
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- Written by: Amy Pullan, University of Sheffield
Following record-high temperatures and melting records that affected northwest Greenland in summer 2015, a new study offers the first evidence linking melting in Greenland to the anticipated effects of a phenomenon known as Arctic amplification.
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- Written by: Lenneke Jong, Cryosphere System Modeller, Antarctic Gateway Partnership & Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems CRC, University of Tasmania
Antarctica is already feeling the heat of climate change, with rapid melting and retreat of glaciers over recent decades. Ice mass loss from Antarctica and Greenland contributes about 20% to the current rate of global sea level rise.
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- Written by: Steve Sherwood, Director and ARC Laureate Fellow, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW Australia
Global temperatures for February showed a disturbing and unprecedented upward spike. It was 1.35? warmer than the average February during the usual baseline period of 1951-1980, according to NASA data.
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- Written by: Steve Rintoul, Research Team Leader, Marine & Atmospheric Research, CSIRO
Much has been written about the challenge of achieving the targets set out in the Paris climate agreement, which calls for global warming to be held well below 2? and ideally within 1.5? of pre-industrial temperatures.
