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Who's going to fill the U.S.-sized hole in climate diplomacy?
In this week's issue of our environmental newsletter, we get some opinions about which countries will lead on climate now that the U.S. has stepped back, look at a Montreal...
Cuts to U.S. weather forecasting, climate science create dark clouds for Canadian counterparts
Cuts to the U.S. agency responsible for weather forecasting and climate science have left scientists on this side of the border concerned about the reliability of data Canada needs to...
How closely did you follow the Gazette this week?
Photo illustration by Liz Zonarich/Harvard Staff Campus & Community Traffic death hot spots? Hidden chronic illness? Sy Boles Harvard Staff Writer February 13, 2025 1 min read How closely did you follow the...
‘Existential questions’ around U.S. climate policy, but resolve, too
Nation & World ‘Existential questions’ around U.S. climate policy, but resolve, too Analysts weigh in on Paris withdrawal and other early moves by Trump administration Alvin Powell Harvard Staff Writer February 21, 2025...
When the woods are your climate change lab
Science & Tech When the woods are your climate change lab Senior investigator Emery Boose and Director of Outreach & Education Clarisse Hart study changes in the Harvard Forest.Photos by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff...
Earth’s rocks hold whiffs of air from billions of years ago
Earth’s atmosphere, the veneer of gases that makes most life possible, has changed dramatically over time. Bubbles of ancient air trapped in polar ice cores provide reliable archives of the past 6 million...
The best home weather stations of 2023
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Community-owned solar will soon power this small mountain town in Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico-based Máximo Solar hired local women to help install the 700 solar panels that power the microgrid. Casa Pueblo This article originally appeared in Nexus Media News and Next City as part...
In "Science": Plant ecology study shows dominant influence of climate on vegetation
For several years, ecological research has argued that climate often has no determining influence on the distribution of forests and savannas in tropical regions. However, an international research team led...
The best water shoes of 2023
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Climate Change: Rising Rainfall, not Temperatures, Threaten Giraffe Survival
Climate change is expected to cause widespread decline in wildlife populations worldwide. But little was previously known about the combined effects of climate change and human activity on the survival...
South Africa, India and Australia shared similar volcanic activity 3.5 billion years ago
Cratons are pieces of ancient continents that formed several billions of years ago. Their study provides a window as to how processes within and on the surface of Earth operated...
Demolition begins at site of deadly Iowa apartment collapse
Crews have started demolition at the site of last month's deadly apartment building collapse in Davenport, Iowa, where three people were killed.
In the thick of Canadian wildfires
The dense smoke that has led to air quality alerts across the U.S. Northeast the past week provides a view of a climate-changed future where Quebec’s wildfires burn twice as much land...
Climate change is altering the linkage between the Arctic and subarctic oceans, finds study
The Arctic Ocean is connected with the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans through several ocean gateways, and changes in the linkage between these oceans and the Arctic Ocean can affect...
Advancing material innovation to address the polymer waste crisis
Products made from polymers—ranging from plastic bags to clothing to cookware to electronics—provide many comforts and support today's standard of living, but since they do not decompose easily, they pose...
Human-caused climate change to blame for increase in California's wildfires
In the quarter century between 1996 and 2020, wildfires in California consumed five times more area than they did from 1971 to 1995. Researchers at the University of California and...
The Baltic sea climate under the influence of the Atlantic: New findings on a 'long distance relationship'
From water temperature to the regional hydrological cycle: the working group Dynamics of Regional Climate Systems at the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde has recently succeeded, with the...
Opinion: The fire this time—facing the reality of climate change
COVID-19, invasive species, and the spread of persistent chemicals and plastics provide one form of evidence that we live on a planet with an interconnected biosphere. Dangers from one part...
Opinion: Geoengineering is shockingly inexpensive
Despite decades of warnings and international climate agreements, global carbon emissions are still rising. Carbon emissions seem like an unstoppable juggernaut as energy-hungry humans keep breeding and pursuing more affluent...
Tony Awards highest rated since 2019
CBS released ratings for this year's Tony Awards on Monday, showing a 2% increase over last year and a high since 2019.
Human-caused climate change at the center of recent California wildfires
A new study by a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientist and collaborators shows that nearly all the recent increase in summer wildfire burned area in California is attributable to...
Study: Rising rainfall, not temperatures, threaten giraffe survival
Giraffes in the East African savannahs are adapting surprisingly well to the rising temperatures caused by climate change. However, they are threatened by increasingly heavy rainfall, as researchers from the...
Earth is getting hotter at a faster rate despite pledges of government action
Average global temperatures are rising at an ever faster rate despite pledges of world leaders to tackle climate change, a new study has revealed.
Why didn't the Big Bang collapse in a giant black hole?
Despite the enormous densities, the early universe didn't collapse into a black hole because, simply put, there was nothing to collapse into.
Watch: Christian Kane back in action in 'Almost Paradise' Season 2
Amazon Freevee released the trailer for "Almost Paradise" Season 2 on Monday. The season premieres July 21.
Exploring new vessel concept to assist open ocean aquaculture
Researchers have been studying how various kinds of vessels operate in the vicinity of facilities exposed to high waves and strong currents and evaluating how weather conditions impact on operations...
Researchers investigate sargassum's impact on air quality
The sliver of sargassum seaweed 19-year-old Sofia Hoffman collected from the shoreline of Crandon Park Beach's Bear Cut Preserve looked more like a dying clump of grass than the fresh...