Global Warming

"False coral" is widely distributed in the Mediterranean. Credit: ICM-CSIC A research team from the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC) has published a study in Communications Biology showing how ocean acidification and warming—two of the main consequences of global climate change—can simultaneously affect the structure, mineral composition, and microbiome…

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This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and WABE , Atlanta’s NPR station. In the middle of a steamy July night on the Wassaw Island beach, near Savannah, Georgia, volunteer Gabi Steinbach plunged her arm shoulder-deep in the sand to reach a loggerhead sea turtle nest that…

Pollinators play a vital role in fertilising flowers, which grow into seeds and fruits and underpin our agriculture. But climate change can cause a mismatch between plants and their pollinators, affecting where they live and what time of year they’re active. This has happened before. When Earth went through rapid…

An aerial view shows the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in August 2023. The tanks contain treated radioactive wastewater the facility has been slowly releasing into the Pacific Ocean. | Photo Credit: Reuters Most monitoring of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant’s release of tritiated wastewater has thus far focused…

One person has died and 13 were injured as France reels from its largest wildfire in decades, French officials said. Thousands of firefighters continued battling the blaze for a third day Thursday, working to contain a fire in the south that had burned across nearly 40,000 acres. Read More

People fill their bottles with water from a fountain during a heatwave, in Rome, Italy, July 23, 2025. — Reuters The third-hottest July worldwide ended a string of record-breaking temperatures, but many regions were devastated by extreme weather amplified by global warming, the European climate monitoring service said Thursday. Heavy…

About 56 million years ago, when Earth experienced a dramatic rise in global temperatures, one meat-eating mammal responded in a surprising way: It started eating more bones. That's the conclusion reached by a Rutgers-led team of researchers, whose recent study of fossil teeth from the extinct predator Dissacus praenuntius reveals…

During the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), a period of geological rapid warming and aridification approximately 56 million years ago, a flesh-eating mesonychid mammal called Dissacus praenuntius responded in a surprising way — it started eating more bones. Dissacus praenuntius. Image credit: DiBgd / CC BY 4.0. “What happened during the…

Terrestrial plants drove an increase in global photosynthesis between 2003 and 2021, a trend partially offset by a weak decline in photosynthesis -- the process of using sunlight to make food -- among marine algae, according to a new study published in Nature Climate Change on August 1. The findings…