Climate change contributes to shift in Lake Erie’s harmful algal blooms
Blooms over the past decade have started earlier in July and had longer peaks, according to NOAA researchers.
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Why this summer might bring the wildest weather yet
The transition between El Niño and La Niña this summer is expected to bring with it a substantial amount of climatic chaos because of pre-existing conditions caused by climate change.
Slow down! You’re killing the right whales
Nearly a century after we almost hunted them to extinction, fewer than 360 right whales remain.
Scientists cook up a plan to hack our warming planet — drying the upper atmosphere
Researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA figure if they can just inject ice high up in the air, water vapour in the upper atmosphere would get a bit drier and that could counteract a small amount of the human-caused heating.
How low can it go? Great Lakes’ average ice cover drops to 6%
Scientists say global heating is driving ice loss and warmer water, as ice cover falls short of the 50-year average of 18 per cent.
What’s an atmospheric river? A pineapple express? Wonder no more
The storm that pummelled California this week was fuelled by an atmospheric river, a plume of moisture that extended across the Pacific to near Hawaii. Here's a look at the phenomenon.
Third unofficial heat record for Earth in just one week
Earth's average temperature set a new unofficial record high on Thursday, July 6, 2023, the third such milestone in a week that already rated as the hottest on record.
Earth breaks average temperature records for three days running
Earth’s average temperature remained at a record high on Wednesday, July 5, 2023, after two days in which the planet reached unofficial records. It’s the latest marker in a series of climate-change-driven extremes.
Backing up the future with a kelp seed bank
In Washington state, the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe’s new preservation facility offers a backup plan for an uncertain future.
Are hungry North Atlantic right whales led by their noses?
Whales seem to find food by sniffing for a chemical cue. Scientists are hoping to turn this into an early warning system to help save the imperilled species.
For whales and crabbers, it’s a delicate dance
As climate change causes more marine heat waves, finding space for both is getting even more difficult.
Ozone layer slowly healing and should mend by 2066
Earth’s protective ozone layer is slowly but noticeably healing at a pace that would fully mend the hole over Antarctica in about 43 years, a new United Nations report says.
U.S. government has a plan to grow wind power while sparing rare whale
The federal government has outlined a strategy to try to protect an endangered species of whale while also developing offshore wind power off the East Coast.
North Atlantic right whale population continues decline
The population of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales isn't declining as fast as it was five years ago, but researchers say the latest numbers show the species is still having a tough time surviving and reproducing.
Prescient extreme weather warning was issued 10 years ago
The 594-page report’s 20-page summary highlighted five case studies of climate risks from worsening extreme weather that scientists said will be more of a problem and how governments could deal with them.