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 …

Around the world fungal infections kill an estimated 2.5 million people a year, notes a report from CNN. But new research predicts that certain species of infection-causing Aspergillus fungi could spread into new areas as the earth’s temperature rises….

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: One of Microsoft’s latest AI models can accurately predict air quality, hurricanes, typhoons, and other weather-related phenomena, the company claims. In a paper published in the journal Nature and a…

Out of 186 countries, only Guyana produces enough food to self-sufficiently feed all its citizens without foreign imports, according to new research. From a report: The study, published in Nature Food, investigated how well each country could feed thei…

An anonymous reader shares a report: European “green” funds holding more than $33 billion of investments in major oil and gas companies have been revealed by an investigation, despite fossil fuels being the root cause of the climate crisis. Some of the…

“Researchers are seeking a breakthrough in technologies to tackle PFAS contamination,” reports the Washington Post — including experiments with ultraviolet light, plasma and sound waves:

“We’re in a good spot,” said Christopher Higgins, a profes…

For the first time, the growth in China’s clean power generation has caused the nation’s carbon dioxide emissions to fall despite rapid power demand growth. From a report:The new analysis for Carbon Brief shows that China’s emissions were down 1.6% yea…

The climate crisis is threatening the future of the world’s most popular fruit, as almost two-thirds of banana-growing areas in Latin America and the Caribbean may no longer be suitable for growing the fruit by 2080, new research has found. From a repo…

Though global sea levels “varied little” for the 2,000 years before the 20th century, CNN reports that sea levels then “started rising and have not stopped since — and the pace is accelerating.”

And sea level rise “was unexpectedly high last ye…