Climate Change

KATHMANDU — In the rugged mountains of the Dolpo region in western Nepal, Youngdung Jhama Lama spent her childhood herding nagton (domesticated yaks) across the vast alpine pastures. Two decades on, mobile herding has greatly changed. “We only have four yaks left now,” said the 24-year-old resident of Vijer (Tra)…

For as long as we’ve known that soil bacteria manufacture molecular weapons to fight each other, we’ve been swiping their battle plans. In clinics and hospitals, those turf-war weapons have become miraculous drugs of modern medicine—antibiotics—that blow away otherwise deadly infections. But, of course, there’s a dark side of mimicking…

In recent years, residents of Spain, France and the UK have looked up to see an eerie sight: deep orange sunrises and skies thick with a yellowish haze. These hazy skies often deposit “blood rain”, rust-colored precipitation that leaves a fine grit on cars and windows. These events are caused…

A study of soil microbes showed that drought favors the microorganisms that survive antibiotics. It also found that some of the genes for resistance in soil-dwelling bacteria show up in antibiotic-resistant pathogen samples collected from hospital patients. Because bacteria can easily swap big chunks of genetic information ‪—‬ a process…

UN issues global climate warning: Earth in critical energy imbalance, El Nino threat grows The Earth is once again at the mercy of an unprecedented climate change crisis marked by the critical energy imbalance than at any time in recorded history, warned by the UN’s weather agency. According to The…

The Caribbean’s cli­mate change re­silience strat­e­gy has an in­sur­ance prob­lem. The lim­it­ed scope of cov­er­age for many who face ad­verse im­pacts due to cli­mate change was put in­to per­spec­tive at the Re­port­ing Cli­mate Im­pacts in a Cli­mate Jus­tice Con­text Work­shop at the Mar­riott ho­tel last Wednes­day. The event was host­ed…

Beavers may play an unexpected role in tackling climate change by transforming rivers into effective carbon dioxide sinks, according to a new international study led by researchers at the University of Birmingham. Published in Communications Earth & Environment, the study is the first to measure both the carbon dioxide (CO2)…

Baseball fans watch the Los Angeles Dodgers play the San Francisco Giants during the fifth inning of a spring training baseball game with the heat forcing the game to end early, Wednesday, March 18, 2026, in Phoenix. Ross D. Franklin/AP WASHINGTON (AP) — The dangerous heat wave shattering March records…

The idea that heat is related to violence is as old as Aristotle. The Greek philosopher believed that anger was a boiling of blood and heat around the heart. A link between the two has been smuggled across the eons into modern languages. Our metaphors are thick with this connection:…

Human-driven climate change is slowing Earth's rotation at a rate not seen in 3.6 million years, with sea level rise increasing the length of days by 1.33 milliseconds per century, according to a new study. Earth spins faster when its mass is more concentrated, just as twirling figure skaters pull…