“Replanting forests can help cool the planet even more than some scientists once believed, especially in the tropics,” according to a recent announcement from the University of California, Riverside.

In a new modeling study published in Communications…

Insect populations are crashing in supposedly protected nature reserves worldwide with climate change emerging as the primary driver of biodiversity loss for the first time in human history. Ecologist Daniel Janzen, who has monitored Costa Rica’s Guana…

California’s carbon allowance auction results released May 29th revealed prices had hit rock bottom, signaling weak corporate demand and casting doubt over the future of the nation’s fourth-largest carbon market. Companies that typically purchase quart…

“More than 200 climate and weather scientists from across the U.S. are taking part in a marathon livestream on YouTube,” according to this report from Space.com. For 100 hours (that started Wednesday) they’re sharing their scientific work and answering…

An anonymous reader shares a report: In a landmark ruling advancing efforts to hold major polluters accountable for transnational climate-related harms, on May 28 a German court concluded that a corporation can be held liable under civil law for its pr…

Almost 40% of glaciers in existence today are already doomed to melt due to climate-heating emissions from fossil fuels, a study has found. The Guardian: The loss will soar to 75% if global heating reaches the 2.7C rise for which the world is currently…

India faces a paradoxical climate challenge that requires embracing air conditioning despite the environmental costs, according to analysis of the country’s warming patterns and pollution crisis. While the past decade marked India’s warmest on record, …

The world is facing a new form of climate denial — not the dismissal of climate science, but a concerted attack on the idea that the economy can be reorganised to fight the crisis, the president of global climate talks has warned. The Guardian reports…

The world faces an 80% probability of breaking another annual temperature record within the next five years, according to a forecast released Wednesday by the World Meteorological Organization and the UK Meteorological Office.

The projections, derive…

Great swathes of the planet’s oceans have become darker in the past two decades, according to researchers who fear the trend will have a severe impact on marine life around the world. From a report: Satellite data and numerical modelling revealed that …