Global Warming

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A warming global climate could cause sudden, potentially catastrophic losses of biodiversity in regions across the globe throughout the 21st century, finds a new UCL-led study. The findings, published today in Nature, predict when and where there could be severe ecological disruption in the coming decades,…

NEWS AND VIEWS 08 April 2020 The timing of disruptions to biodiversity associated with global warming is a key, but little-explored, dimension of change. Will losses in biodiversity occur all at once, or be spread out over time? Jennifer M. Sunday Jennifer M. Sunday is in the Department of Biology,…

Gif: Colorado State UniversityClimate change doesn’t take a break just because there’s a pandemic. Point in case: On Monday, Cyclone Harold roared over the small island nation of Vanuatu, lashing the islands with powerful winds and heavy rain. The storm forced the island to open emergency shelters, putting people in…

Sunday Sermon #1 By Mark Skousen Note: Welcome to Sunday Sermon, a weekly column that draws upon the wisdom of great religious leaders and worldly philosophers, from Aristotle to Jesus to the Dalai Lama. Whether you worship at home, at church or in nature, … Read More

Happy mutants Andy Cowitt and Michael Wertz have collaborated on a song that tells the story of Golden Gate Park -- San Francisco's three-mile-long stretch of man-made natural space -- from its sandy start to "skaters on streets." It was created to coincide with the park's 150th anniversary (Saturday, April…

The coronavirus crisis could have been prevented because there was enough information available to the world, according to Noam Chomsky, who has warned that once the pandemic is over, two critical challenges will remain - the threats of nuclear war and global warming. Speaking from his office in self-isolation to Croatian…

The United Nations postponed an important year-end climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, because of concerns about the novel coronavirus pandemic. U.N. climate leaders bowed yesterday to mounting pressure to delay the summit that attracts thousands of delegates and observers. The gathering will be held in 2021, and a midyear meeting…

Over the past few weeks and months, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths has escalated dramatically. "The number of deaths has more than doubled in the past week," the World Health Organization's director-general said in a media briefing on April 1. "In the next few days, we will reach…

Professor Katharine Hayhoe is one of the leading voices on climate action in North America. In the most recent episode of her Global Weirding webseries — the second in a two-part series — she discusses the impact on and relationship between global warming and human action in the wake of…

View Slideshow In summer 2019, a surprising sight popped up on a New Hampshire lake — ICEBERG, a floating, iceberg-shaped pavilion made of locally sourced wood and recycled plastic. Created to raise awareness on the issue of polar ice melt, the temporary installation was the work of Bulot+Collins, an international architecture…