Global Warming

Branching staghorn coral, acropora, is completely bleached during the 2017 coral bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef. Picture was taken on Pixie Reef. Brett Monroe Garner / Moment / Getty Images The Great Barrier Reef, a natural wonder that once teemed with life, just experienced a major coral bleaching…

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Boeing Co (BA.N) plans to restart 737 MAX production by May, ending a months-long halt triggered by a safety ban on its best-selling jet after fatal crashes, people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. Boeing’s planning hinges on the scale of disruptions from the fast spreading…

When Christiana Figueres took the reins of the United Nations’ international climate negotiations in 2010, hopes were not high that the world would come together to forge an agreement to tackle global warming—especially after talks had fallen apart in Copenhagen the previous year. In fact, when she was asked at…

Image copyright Sterling Caviar Image caption Sturgeon farmed at Sterling Caviar Overfishing has depleted numbers of wild fish, and fish farms meet much of the growing demand. Could we one day be eating "fish" grown from cells in a factory, as a number of start-ups are planning?Business is booming says…

Small levels of global warming can increase the likelihood of extreme events, new research warns. That’s prompting scientists to question how accurately disasters in the recent past can be used to predict extreme events today. A study published Wednesday in Science Advances suggests that some research attributing climate change to individual disasters has underestimated…

Thanks to a new algorithm, researchers at the AWI can now use satellite data to determine in which parts of the ocean certain types of phytoplankton are dominant. In addition, they can identify toxic algal blooms and assess the effects of global warming on marine plankton, allowing them to draw…

A new Stanford study reveals that a common scientific approach of predicting the likelihood of future extreme weather events by analyzing how frequently they occurred in the past can lead to significant underestimates -- with potentially significant consequences for people's lives. Stanford climate scientist Noah Diffenbaugh found that predictions that…

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One gigatonne of ice. Image: nasa / JPL-Caltech By Mark Kaufman2020-03-13 16:16:17 UTC The greatest masses of ice on Earth, in Antarctica and Greenland, aren't just melting — this melt is accelerating.  How much ice are these critical polar regions losing into the oceans? NASA uses satellites to diligently measure…

Photo: Valerie Macon (Getty Images)Britney Spears still gets roasted for a 2014 tweet in which she appears to praise Lady Gaga and global warming in a single post. It turns out, however, that, no, she doesn’t think global warming is a good thing and Twitter, as so often is the…