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UN report finds 1.5°C warming limit likely to be exceeded by 2030
For more than a decade, the world has been trying to limit global warming to 1.5°C.
Environment
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Q&A: Can U.S. parks promote safety, recreation and environmental protection?
Recently, heavy rains have caused flooding in Grand Canyon and Zion National Parks, resulting in the loss of at least two lives. In U.S. national parks, maintaining visitor safety can be complicated because it is difficult ...
Earth Sciences
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Global warming will exceed limit, UN says in a report that maps path to get back below danger zone
In a strategic retreat in the fight against climate change, the United Nations has acknowledged that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst of global warming's harms. So now the world must figure out how to ...
Environment
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Geomagnetic superstorm shook GPS accuracy across the US—its timing may have averted agricultural losses
On Nov. 11, 2025, Earth experienced a severe geomagnetic storm triggered by solar flares and coronal mass ejections from an active sunspot region. While this kind of storm brings beautiful auroras admired in many areas around ...
Canada's Labrador Shelf preserves climate records once thought erased by ice
The Labrador Shelf is a shallow marine area on the margin of the Labrador Sea in the North Atlantic off the east coast of Canada. During the last ice age, this region was covered by the Laurentide Ice Sheet, one of the largest ...
Earth Sciences
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Ocean heat waves linked with poorer health among children in coastal communities
Marine heat waves—periods of abnormally warm ocean temperatures—may have negative health effects on children who live in coastal communities in low- and middle-income countries, according to a study led by researchers at ...
Environment
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Salt of the Earth: How Egypt's coastal sabkhas tell a story of climate and change
Have you ever walked across a salt flat so expansive it feels like another planet? That's what it's like standing in Egypt's coastal sabkhas—those otherworldly landscapes where the ground crunches beneath your feet and the ...
Warming winters weaken New Hampshire forest's carbon sink over 20 years
Can we count on forests to continue absorbing the carbon dioxide that's warming our world? A new study from researchers at NAU and the University of New Hampshire says ... maybe not.
Environment
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Border toy screening finds 12% exceed toxic-metal limits
Nearly four out of five children's toys purchased in the El Paso-Ciudad Juárez region contain at least one toxic element, according to a new study led by researchers at The University of Texas at El Paso. The findings, just ...
Environment
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Los Angeles Basin map shows deep sediments that could amplify earthquake shaking
In computer simulations of the Big One—a large-magnitude earthquake that may occur along the San Andreas Fault in California—seismic waves ripple from the epicenter of a magnitude 7.8 earthquake near the Salton Sea into the ...
Earth Sciences
23 hours ago
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To promote climate action, emotion may matter more than information
Every year, public authorities and nongovernmental organizations spend millions on communication campaigns designed to encourage people to take action on climate change. But which strategies work best? Should campaigns rely ...
Environment
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Community-led systems may curb illegal dumping in Indonesia's rural tourism areas
Local action may offer a model for waste management in rural tourism, according to research published in the International Journal of Tourism Anthropology. The study of waste problems in Kampung Nipah, a coastal tourism hamlet ...
Environment
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Exposure to forever chemicals through sea spray may be overblown
Coastal residents may be worried about exposure to forever chemicals from sea spray during hot summer months, but York University researchers found little evidence of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination ...
Environment
17 hours ago
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Next-gen sensors: Catching water pollution in real time
Extreme weather events, such as floods, droughts and torrential rains, affect water quality in lakes, rivers and coastal areas. This creates significant challenges for ecosystems and water supplies because pesticides bound ...
Earth Sciences
19 hours ago
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Study: Reservoir management system could save California $150 million every year
A new study from the Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E) at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego finds that improved weather and water forecasts could help California gain more value from existing ...
Environment
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Ice island survives run-in with Joe Island
Summer is prime iceberg season in Greenland's glacier-fed fjords, and 2026 was no exception. Especially notable was the berg that broke from Petermann Glacier along Greenland's northwest coast in August. Roughly the size ...
Environment
20 hours ago
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UK chalks up hottest summer on record for second year running
Britain experienced its hottest summer on record for the second year in a row, the UK's national weather agency announced Tuesday, after weeks of successive heat waves and widespread drought conditions.
Environment
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Nepal's devastating floods won't be the last as the region's mountains heat up
On the morning of Aug. 26, a section of mountain near Langtang Lirung peak in Nepal suddenly collapsed.
Environment
22 hours ago
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Trawling threatens vital carbon stores in Scotland's sea lochs
New research from the University of St Andrews shows that disturbing seabed sediments through trawling could cause significant losses of carbon stored in Scotland's sea lochs. The study, published in Marine Environmental ...
Environment
21 hours ago
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Kaikōura erosion monitoring holds answers for world's rock coastlines
Erosion rates on parts of the Kaikōura Peninsula more than doubled after the 2016 earthquake, showing major quakes can "rapidly alter" the way coastlines evolve, an Otago researcher says.
Earth Sciences
Sep 1, 2026
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