Iconic Doomsday Clock moves one second closer to midnight as global existential threats rage. Clock factors include nuclear weapons, climate crisis, artificial intelligence, infectious diseases, and conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East.
The team warns that if this trend continues, in only the next 20 years, we will exceed the sea surface temperature rise we've experienced in the last 40 years.
In recent years, the proliferation of conspiracy theories amid escalating climate disasters and their aftermath has become an alarming trend.
The term "pyrocene" suggests a geologic epoch dominated by human-caused fires. Humanity and fire have been reforging the Earth since the end of the last glaciation, about 11,500 years ago.
High summer temperatures caused record melting of the Norwegian archipelago’s glaciers.
A new review of over 200 papers finds 'hydroclimate whiplash' has increased considerably, most likely due to the atmosphere's rising capacity for absorbing and retaining moisture.
The year 2024 was the world’s warmest on record globally, and the first calendar year in which global temperatures exceeded 1.5°C above its pre-industrial levels.
A landmark assessment of the health of nearly 24,000 freshwater species found that just under a quarter are at risk of extinction.
Microplastics are superpervasive - getting into human tissue, ancient rock, and bottled water - but it may come as a shock to discover just how many of these tiny fragments can lurk inside a single tea bag.
A23a originally broke away from Antarctica’s Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf in 1986 and remained stuck close to the continent for decades. Now A23a is on the move again.
A new study shows that long-term exposure to air pollution contributes to millions of deaths in India. The research emphasizes the need for stricter air quality regulations in the country.
The first dead elephants were discovered in May 2020. By July of that year, over 350 of the endangered animals had been found strewn lifeless across a remote region of Botswana.
A league of scientists are calling for a critical discussion on the dangers of life forms made up of 'mirror-image molecules', because of the significant risks these creations may pose to global health.
Dramatic changes in the Arctic are being driven by high temperatures and intense wildfires. After storing carbon dioxide for millennia in frozen soil, the Arctic tundra has now become a source of emissions.
Americans, especially those born between 1966 and 1986 (largely so-called generation X), have probably suffered from an additional 151 million mental health disorders that would not have occurred without the use of leaded petrol.
