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Equuleus42 (Slashdot reader #723) shares the Washington Post’s article on “the latest evidence of the pervasiveness of ‘forever chemicals’.”
A new study from the United States Geological Survey estimates that these 12,000 “PFAS” contaminants “taint …
Monday was Earth’s hottest day in at least 125,000 years — and Tuesday was hotter.
The Washington Post reports that the director of Europe’s Copernicus Climate Change Service has a term for it: “uncharted territory.”
It’s not just that records…
The UN secretary general has said that “climate change is out of control,” as an unofficial analysis of data showed that average world temperatures in the seven days to Wednesday were the hottest week on record. From a report: “If we persist in delayin…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: The planet’s temperature spiked on Tuesday to its hottest day in decades and likely centuries, and Wednesday could become the third straight day Earth unofficially marks a record-breaking h…
From north to south, temperatures are surging as greenhouse gases trap heat in the atmosphere and combine with effects from El Niño.
A United Nations watchdog approved Japan’s controversial plan to start releasing treated water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant next month. As Nikkei notes in its reporting, the water is still radioactive since “radioactive tritium cannot be remo…
When the heat spikes, humans suffer health effects — especially young and elderly people, who are vulnerable to heat even under normal conditions.
July 3 was the hottest day ever recorded globally, according to data from the U.S. National Centers for Environmental Prediction. From a report: The average global temperature reached 17.01 degrees Celsius (62.62 Fahrenheit), surpassing the August 2016…
An anonymous Slashdot reader writes: An article in Nature Sustainability suggests that models may have underestimated the impact of warming on ecosystems. Two main reasons for this are the difficulty in accounting for variability and combining climate …
“Alaska Weather,” a daily 30-minute TV show that has broadcast across Alaska for the past 47 years, is going off the air due to a lack of funds. Gizmodo reports: In lieu of the news, residents seeking information on their state’s weather will be forced…