Climate Change

Study says climate change made conditions that fed California wildfires more likely, more intenseRead More

Climate change helped to set the stage for the devastating Los Angeles fires this month, a new study by 32 researchers shows. The Palisades and Eaton wildfires broke out in early January and soon killed at least 28 people, destroying 16,000 structures. Hot, dry conditions and extraordinarily powerful winds fanned…

From the first reports of wildfires breaking out around Los Angeles earlier this month, scientists could say that climate change had worsened the blazes. Sure, wildfires would burn in California regardless of planetary warming, but extra-dry fuels had turned the landscape into tinder. The resulting blazes, fanned by 100-mile-per-hour Santa…

Climate change contributed to turning Los Angeles and its surroundings into a dry tinder-box of fuel just at the time of year when strong winds make fire most dangerous, a group of scientists have found. Thirty-two scientists working with the World Weather Attribution (WWA) group found that climate change –…

A bank burns on Sunset Boulevard. Image take on January 8 by Cal Fire. Starting on January 7 2025 two large wildfires (the Palisades and Eaton wildfires) erupted in Los Angeles, California. The fires spread extremely quickly over the following week and are among the most destructive of human property…

As the Palisades and Eaton wildfires still blaze in Los Angeles, exactly what kindled the fires remains a mystery. But one fact is clear: Climate change made the conditions that drove the devastating fires some 35 percent more likely than they would have been had the fires occurred before the…

On a freezing day in October 1960 a team of U.S. Army  technicians toiling at the top of the world stood in the belly of a glacier, making the final preparations that would bring a nuclear reactor to life. It was an experimental model, smallish and fickle, and these, of…

Scientists have different ideas about how and when the world might end, and they focus on several possible scenarios. Many believe global warming and climate change could play a major role. This refers to the Earth getting hotter and experiencing extreme weather changes, like more hurricanes, droughts, and floods. These…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Existing policies to tackle environmental challenges fail to take into account that biodiversity loss, climate change and pollution are intertwined crises and produce compounding and intensifying impacts. Policy measures taken in isolation are likely to result in unintended consequences. These are key findings of two major…

Complex organisms, thousands of times smaller than a grain of sand, can shape massive ecosystems and influence the fate of Earth's climate, according to a new study. Researchers from Arizona State University, along with their colleagues from the National University of the Peruvian Amazon, have identified an unknown family of…