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Last month was the planet’s warmest June since global temperature record-keeping began in 1850, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said in its monthly climate update on Thursday. From a report: The agency also predicts unusually hot te…
As unprecedented weather leads to increasing climate anxiety, there’s a raft of different apps catering for every kind of forecast. From a report: Preoccupation with weather apps is commonplace in our current unsettled atmosphere. On social media there…
The University of Southampton has an announcement. Slashdot reader pyroclast shared this report from ScienceDaily:
Today an international team of researchers has chosen the location which best represents the beginnings of what could be a new geologica…
An anonymous reader shares a report: For two weeks in June, Nawshin Khan, a marketing and content management strategist at Dhaka-based outsourcing firm Datacrete, struggled to stay awake and alert at work. As Bangladesh experienced its longest heatwave…
Temperatures are sizzling across Europe this week amid an intense and prolonged period of heat. And it’s only just begun. From a report: Italy, Spain, France, Germany and Poland are all facing a major heatwave with air temperatures expected to climb to…
The color of the ocean has changed significantly over the last 20 years and human-caused climate change is likely responsible, according to a new study. From a report: More than 56% of the world’s oceans have changed color to an extent that cannot be e…
Around the United States, dangerous floods, heat and storms are happening more frequently.
Nine days ago the U.S. government released a report on the advantages of studying “scientific and societal implications” of “solar radiation modification” (or SRM) to explore its possible “risks and benefits…as a component of climate policy.”
The r…
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…