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Kids born today are going to grow up in a hellscape, grim climate study finds
Exposure to extreme climate events will increase two to seven times more for those born in 2020 compared with those in 1960, a new study warns.
www.livescience.com
Kids born today are going to grow up in a hellscape, grim climate study finds #Science #EarthSciences #Climatology #ClimateChange #FutureGenerations #EnvironmentalImpact
Mars Has a Surprising Influence on Earth's Climate, Scientists Discover #Science #Space #PlanetaryScience #MarsClimate #EarthScience #ClimateChange
Mars Has a Surprising Influence on Earth's Climate, Scientists Discover
Earth's climate has swung between ice ages and warmer periods for millions of years, driven by subtle changes in our planet's orbit and axial tilt.
www.sciencealert.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Mars Has a Surprising Influence on Earth's Climate, Scientists Discover #Science #Space #PlanetaryScience #MarsClimate #EarthScience #ClimateChange
The Download: solar geoengineering’s future, and OpenAI is being sued #Science #TechnologyandEngineering #SolarGeoengineering #OpenAI #ClimateChange
The Download: solar geoengineering’s future, and OpenAI is being sued
Plus: ICE is tracking pregnant immigrants through smartwatches
www.technologyreview.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The Download: solar geoengineering’s future, and OpenAI is being sued #Science #TechnologyandEngineering #SolarGeoengineering #OpenAI #ClimateChange
Rice Fields Are Drowning and the Damage Is Accelerating Worldwide #Science #EarthSciences #EnvironmentalScience #ClimateChange #RiceFields #Sustainability
scitechdaily.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Rice Fields Are Drowning and the Damage Is Accelerating Worldwide #Science #EarthSciences #EnvironmentalScience #ClimateChange #RiceFields #Sustainability
Solar geoengineering startups are getting serious #Science #TechnologyandEngineering #SolarGeoengineering #ClimateChange #Innovation
Solar geoengineering startups are getting serious
Should private companies be able to dim the sun?
www.technologyreview.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Solar geoengineering startups are getting serious #Science #TechnologyandEngineering #SolarGeoengineering #ClimateChange #Innovation
Space Dust Reveals the Arctic Is Melting Faster Than Expected #Science #EarthSciences #Climatology #ArcticMelting #ClimateChange #SpaceDust
scitechdaily.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Space Dust Reveals the Arctic Is Melting Faster Than Expected #Science #EarthSciences #Climatology #ArcticMelting #ClimateChange #SpaceDust
How the Next Big Thing in Carbon Removal Sunk Without a Trace #Science #TechnologyandEngineering #CarbonRemoval #ClimateChange #Innovation
How the Next Big Thing in Carbon Removal Sunk Without a Trace
With support from Microsoft, Stripe, and Shopify, Running Tide billed itself as on the cutting edge of carbon removal. In the end, it resorted to dumping thousands of tons of wood chips in the sea.
www.wired.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
How the Next Big Thing in Carbon Removal Sunk Without a Trace #Science #TechnologyandEngineering #CarbonRemoval #ClimateChange #Innovation
Hobbits May Have Been Victims of Climate Change #Science #Biology #EvolutionaryBiology #ClimateChange #Evolution #Hobbits
Hobbits May Have Been Victims of Climate Change
Hobbits May Have Been Victims of Climate Change: New research offers clues into the mysterious disappearance of these tiny hominins.
nautil.us
December 11, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Hobbits May Have Been Victims of Climate Change #Science #Biology #EvolutionaryBiology #ClimateChange #Evolution #Hobbits
The Download: a controversial proposal to solve climate change, and our future grids #Science #EarthSciences #EnvironmentalScience #ClimateChange #Sustainability #FutureEnergy
The Download: a controversial proposal to solve climate change, and our future grids
Plus: Australia’s social media ban for teens has just come into force.
www.technologyreview.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The Download: a controversial proposal to solve climate change, and our future grids #Science #EarthSciences #EnvironmentalScience #ClimateChange #Sustainability #FutureEnergy
EPA Removes Mention of Human Drivers of Warming from Its Website #Science #EarthSciences #EnvironmentalScience #ClimateChange #EPA #EnvironmentalPolicy
EPA Removes Mention of Human Drivers of Warming from Its Website
Published at the Yale School of the Environment
e360.yale.edu
December 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
EPA Removes Mention of Human Drivers of Warming from Its Website #Science #EarthSciences #EnvironmentalScience #ClimateChange #EPA #EnvironmentalPolicy
How one controversial startup hopes to cool the planet #Science #EarthSciences #EnvironmentalScience #ClimateChange #Sustainability #Innovation
How one controversial startup hopes to cool the planet
And why many scientists are freaked out about the first serious for-profit company moving into the solar geoengineering field.
www.technologyreview.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
How one controversial startup hopes to cool the planet #Science #EarthSciences #EnvironmentalScience #ClimateChange #Sustainability #Innovation
The Early Human Hobbit Vanished 61,000 Years Ago — And Climate Change May Be to Blame #Science #Biology #EvolutionaryBiology #EarlyHumans #ClimateChange #Evolution
The Early Human Hobbit Vanished 61,000 Years Ago — And Climate Change May Be to Blame
Learn how a major shift toward drought reshaped the Flores ecosystem and may have driven the hobbits to extinction.
www.discovermagazine.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The Early Human Hobbit Vanished 61,000 Years Ago — And Climate Change May Be to Blame #Science #Biology #EvolutionaryBiology #EarlyHumans #ClimateChange #Evolution
Brazil weakens Amazon protections days after COP30 #Science #EarthSciences #EnvironmentalScience #AmazonRainforest #ClimateChange #EnvironmentalProtection
Brazil weakens Amazon protections days after COP30
Backed by powerful corporations, nations are giving public false choices: Environmental protection or economic growth.
arstechnica.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Brazil weakens Amazon protections days after COP30 #Science #EarthSciences #EnvironmentalScience #AmazonRainforest #ClimateChange #EnvironmentalProtection
2025 is the second hottest year since records began #Science #EarthSciences #Climatology #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #HeatRecords
2025 is the second hottest year since records began
Mean temperatures this year approached 1.5°C above the preindustrial average, making it the second hottest year after 2024
www.newscientist.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
2025 is the second hottest year since records began #Science #EarthSciences #Climatology #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #HeatRecords
2025 Likely to Tie for Second-Hottest Year on Record #Science #EarthSciences #Climatology #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #WeatherTrends
2025 Likely to Tie for Second-Hottest Year on Record
Europe’s climate agency said 2025 is likely to be the second or third hottest on record
www.scientificamerican.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM
2025 Likely to Tie for Second-Hottest Year on Record #Science #EarthSciences #Climatology #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #WeatherTrends
How to Really Convince People to Prepare for Climate Disasters #Science #EarthSciences #EnvironmentalScience #ClimateChange #DisasterPreparedness
How to Really Convince People to Prepare for Climate Disasters
How to Really Convince People to Prepare for Climate Disasters: The most effective messaging hits home.
nautil.us
December 8, 2025 at 10:00 PM
How to Really Convince People to Prepare for Climate Disasters #Science #EarthSciences #EnvironmentalScience #ClimateChange #DisasterPreparedness
Major ‘megafires’ are now primed to ignite across the US. All it needs is a spark #Science #EarthSciences #Climatology #Megafires #ClimateChange #WildfireSafety
Major ‘megafires’ are now primed to ignite across the US. All it needs is a spark | BBC Science Focus Magazine
Every year, bigger and bigger wildfires are ravaging the US. Now it seems that even normally damp states, like Washington, aren't safe from megafires
www.sciencefocus.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Major ‘megafires’ are now primed to ignite across the US. All it needs is a spark #Science #EarthSciences #Climatology #Megafires #ClimateChange #WildfireSafety
Inspired by Schools of Fish, This Magnetic Material Swarms to Eat Carbon Dioxide #Science #Biology #Ecology #ClimateChange #CarbonCapture #SustainableMaterials
Inspired by Schools of Fish, This Magnetic Material Swarms to Eat Carbon Dioxide
Removing, or “scrubbing”, carbon dioxide from the air of confined spaces is a critical component of any life support system on a spacecraft or submarine. However, modern day ones are energy intensive,...
www.universetoday.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Inspired by Schools of Fish, This Magnetic Material Swarms to Eat Carbon Dioxide #Science #Biology #Ecology #ClimateChange #CarbonCapture #SustainableMaterials
62,000 Penguins Starved to Death Off South Africa's Coast Last Decade. Here's Why. #Science #Biology #Ecology #PenguinConservation #ClimateChange #BiodiversityLoss
62,000 Penguins Starved to Death Off South Africa's Coast Last Decade. Here's Why.
A brutal confluence of environmental change and human fishing habits left tens of thousands of adult African penguins off South Africa's coast without enough food to survive, reducing their population...
www.sciencealert.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
62,000 Penguins Starved to Death Off South Africa's Coast Last Decade. Here's Why. #Science #Biology #Ecology #PenguinConservation #ClimateChange #BiodiversityLoss
This Year’s Antarctic Ozone Hole Was Shockingly Small #Science #EarthSciences #Climatology #OzoneLayer #ClimateChange #Antarctica
scitechdaily.com
December 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
This Year’s Antarctic Ozone Hole Was Shockingly Small #Science #EarthSciences #Climatology #OzoneLayer #ClimateChange #Antarctica
Deep-Ocean Carbon Fixers Overturn Long-Held Climate Assumptions #Science #EarthSciences #Oceanography #ClimateChange #DeepOcean #CarbonFixation
scitechdaily.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Deep-Ocean Carbon Fixers Overturn Long-Held Climate Assumptions #Science #EarthSciences #Oceanography #ClimateChange #DeepOcean #CarbonFixation
Deep-Sea Clues Rewrite What We Know About the End of the Last Ice Age #Science #EarthSciences #Paleontology #IceAge #ClimateChange #Geoscience
scitechdaily.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Deep-Sea Clues Rewrite What We Know About the End of the Last Ice Age #Science #EarthSciences #Paleontology #IceAge #ClimateChange #Geoscience
Why Tehran Is Running Out of Water #Science #EarthSciences #Hydrology #WaterCrisis #Tehran #ClimateChange
Why Tehran Is Running Out of Water
Because of shifting storms and sweltering summers, Iran’s capital faces a future “Day Zero” when the taps run dry.
www.wired.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Why Tehran Is Running Out of Water #Science #EarthSciences #Hydrology #WaterCrisis #Tehran #ClimateChange
Europe races to save its underwater heritage from climate change #Science #EarthSciences #EnvironmentalScience #UnderwaterHeritage #ClimateChange #Conservation
scienceblog.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Europe races to save its underwater heritage from climate change #Science #EarthSciences #EnvironmentalScience #UnderwaterHeritage #ClimateChange #Conservation
Climate Change Could Cost You 24 Hours of Sleep a Year #Science #HealthandMedicine #PublicHealth #ClimateChange #SleepHealth
scienceblog.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Climate Change Could Cost You 24 Hours of Sleep a Year #Science #HealthandMedicine #PublicHealth #ClimateChange #SleepHealth